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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.’”

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

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”

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

“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”

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

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

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

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

“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”

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

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

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

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

“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

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

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

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

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly.”

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

“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”

“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

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

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

“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 …
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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And …
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“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

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

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”

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

“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”

“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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

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?”

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

“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.”

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

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

 “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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.

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

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” 

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

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

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

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

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

 “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

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

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

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

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

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

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

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 ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

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

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

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

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

“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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“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”

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