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

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

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

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”

“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”

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

“There is only one boss; The Customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”

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

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

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

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

“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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“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”

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

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

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

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

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

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

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

“A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.”

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

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

“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

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

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.”

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

“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.”

“Change before you have to.”

“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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“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.’”

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

 “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.”

“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.”

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

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.” 

“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.

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

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

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“When people talk, listen completely.”