“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

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

“Simplicity is a great way to build something that works well without costing too much.”

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

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”

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

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

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”

“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.”

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

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

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

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

“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.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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“All humans are entrepreneurs; not because they should start companies; but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”

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

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

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

 “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.”

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

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

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

“Being good is good business.”

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

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

 “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

“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.”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

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

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

“Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”

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

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”

“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

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

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”

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

 “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.” 

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

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

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

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

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

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

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

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”

“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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

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“Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.”

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

“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.”

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: It was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not …
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 “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of      a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”

“If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk; then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” 

“Details create the big picture.”

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

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

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

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

“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

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.”

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

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

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“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”