“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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“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”

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

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

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

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 set your goals by what other people deem important.” 

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

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

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

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

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”

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

“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from …
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“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”

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

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

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

“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

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

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

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

“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”

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

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

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

“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.”

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

“What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

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

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

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

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”

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

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”

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

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

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

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

“True leadership lies in guiding others to success; in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”

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

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

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

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

“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.”

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

“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.”

“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or …
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“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?”

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

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“Details create the big picture.”

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

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

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

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”