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

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

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

“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 …
Continue reading Douglas MacArthur

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?”

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards it”

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

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

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

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

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

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

“There is no progress without change.”

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

“Details create the big picture.”

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t 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.”

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

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

“Earn your leadership every day.”

“Business is all about the customer; what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and …
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“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.”

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

“Being good is good business.”

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”

“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”

“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution …
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“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

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

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

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

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

“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”

“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”

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

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“Creativity without Strategy is called Art. Creativity with Strategy is called Advertising.”

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

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.”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

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

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

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

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

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an …
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“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

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

 “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 quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

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

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

“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.”

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

“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”

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

“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

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

“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 …
Continue reading John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

“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.

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting …
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“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

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