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

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

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

“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.”

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“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.”

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

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

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

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

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

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

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

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.”

“The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

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

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

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

“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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“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.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

“Change before you have to.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

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

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

“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

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

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

“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

  “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

“Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.”

 “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.”

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

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

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

“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.”

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

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

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

“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

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

 “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.”

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.”

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”

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

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

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

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”

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

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

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

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

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

“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.”

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; …
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“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”

“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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“When people talk, listen completely.”

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