“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”

“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”

“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

 “Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”

“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”

“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”

“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”

“In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

“Great companies are built on great products.”

“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”

 “Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.” 

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.”

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result …
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“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

“Some people dream of success; while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

“There is no progress without change.”

“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Dont wish it were easier; wish you were better.”

“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

“In a world thats changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.”

“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

“A leader…is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed …
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“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”

“Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.”

“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”

“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” 

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of …
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Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”

“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”

“Creativity without Strategy is called Art. Creativity with Strategy is called Advertising.”

“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards it”

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”

“Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”

“The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”

“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.”

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

 “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

“Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.”

“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or …
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“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”

 “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”