“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If youre not passionate enough from the start, youll never stick …
Continue reading Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

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

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

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

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

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

“Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything.  I myself …
Continue reading Ben Silbermann

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”

“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 …
Continue reading Mark Parker

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”

“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 …
Continue reading Spencer Fry

“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.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of …
Continue reading Woodrow Wilson

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

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

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

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

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

“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”

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

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”

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

“Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”

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

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

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

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

“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 …
Continue reading Fabrizio Moreira

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

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

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

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; …
Continue reading Barack Obama

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

“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 …
Continue reading Nelson Mandela

“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.”

“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.”

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

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

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

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

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

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

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

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

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

“The best way to predict the future is to create 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 …
Continue reading Theodore Roosevelt

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“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.”

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

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

“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.” 

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

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

“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”