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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

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

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

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

“There is no progress without change.”

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

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

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”

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

“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.”

“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

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

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

“The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”

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

“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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“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’”

“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.”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

“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.”

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

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

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

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

“No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.”

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

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

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

“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.”

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

“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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“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.” 

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

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

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“Details create the big picture.”

“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.”

“Change before you have to.”

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“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.”

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

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

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

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

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

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

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.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

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

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

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

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

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

“Being good is good business.”

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

“The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.”

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”

“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.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”