“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

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

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the …
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“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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“Details create the big picture.”

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

“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”

 “Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.” 

“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.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

“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.”

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

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

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

“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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“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit.”

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

“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.”

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

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

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

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

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

“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.’”

“Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.”

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

“Change before you have to.”

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

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

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

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

“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might 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.”

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

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

“Who wishes to fight must first count the cost”.

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

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

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

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not …
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“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

“Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”

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

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

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

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

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”

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

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

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

“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”

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

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

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

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

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

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”