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

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; …
Continue reading Barack Obama

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

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

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

“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 …
Continue reading Peter Drucker

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

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

“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.” 

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not …
Continue reading Jim Rohn

“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”

“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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“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

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

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

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

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

 “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

  “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never …
Continue reading Steve Jobs

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

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

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

 “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.”

  “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

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

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

“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.”

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

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

“Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s …
Continue reading James Rouse

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

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

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

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

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

 “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.”

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

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

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

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

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting …
Continue reading Charles F. Kettering

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

“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”

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

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

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

“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 …
Continue reading George Orwell

 “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.”

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

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”

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

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If youre not passionate enough from the start, youll never stick …
Continue reading Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

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

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

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

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

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

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”

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

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

“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, …
Continue reading Henry Ford

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

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

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

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

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”

“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 …
Continue reading Theodore Roosevelt

“Earn your leadership every day.”

“The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your …
Continue reading John Paul Dejoria

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

“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.”

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

“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.”