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

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

“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”

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

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

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

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

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

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

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

“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

“When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.”

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

“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 …
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“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” 

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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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“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and youre in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.” 

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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?”

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

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

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

“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.”

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

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

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

“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die”.

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

“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.”

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

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

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

  “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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“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.”

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

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

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

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

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

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

“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.’”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

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

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

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” 

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

“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

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

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

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

“Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“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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