“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” 

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

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

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

“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

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

“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” 

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

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

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

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

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

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

“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.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” 

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

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

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

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

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

“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”

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

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

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

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Details create the big picture.”

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

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

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”

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

“Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.”

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”

“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”

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

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

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.”

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

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

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

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

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

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