“You’re smart, you’re a survivor; use your intelligence and instincts to get to a better position than the one you’re in now”.

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”

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

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

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

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

If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“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.”

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

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

“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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“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”

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

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

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

“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

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

“No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the …
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Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”

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

“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out …
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“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out …
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“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

“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.”

“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”

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

“The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

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

“If you think you are leading, and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

“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.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”

“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”

“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”

“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

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

If The World Says “No”, You Say “Next”… Never Give Up

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

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

“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.”

“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.” 

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

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

 “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.”

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

  “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

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

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

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

 “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

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

“Who wishes to fight must first count the cost”.

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

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

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

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” 

“If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.”

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

“Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service.”

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

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

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

“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”