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

“Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people,” that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s …
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“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”

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

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

“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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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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

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

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

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

“Details create the big picture.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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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“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

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

“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.”

“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”

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

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

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

“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

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

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

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

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

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

“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 

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

“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“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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“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“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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“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

“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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“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”

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

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

“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.”

“Some people dream of success; while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”

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

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”

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

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” 

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

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

 “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.”

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

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

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”

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

“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.”

“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”

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

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

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

“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”

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

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

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

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

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