“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

“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.”

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

The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

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

“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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“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.”

“Being good is good business.”

“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they …
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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.”

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

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

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

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

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

“Business is all about the customer; what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and …
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“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”

“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.”

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”

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

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”

“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”

“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the …
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“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the …
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“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”

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

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to …
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“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

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

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

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

“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

“Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people,” that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s …
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“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.

“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”

“Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.”

“You manage things; you lead people.”

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

“The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”

“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”

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

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

“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

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

“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.”

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

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

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an …
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“When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.”

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

“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”

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

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

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”

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

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”