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

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and youre in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.” 

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

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

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

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

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

“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution …
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The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

 “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”

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

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

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

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

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”

“Earn your leadership every day.”

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

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

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Being good is good business.”

“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.

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

“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”

“Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”

“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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“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”

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

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; …
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“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.”

“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.”

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

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

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

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

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

“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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“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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“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die”.

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

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

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

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

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

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

“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”

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

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

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

“The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter …
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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

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

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

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

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”

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

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

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

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”

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

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