“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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 …
Continue reading Vivek Wadhwa

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

“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.”

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

“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

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

“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

 “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”

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

“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.

“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

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

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

“Details create the big picture.”

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

“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 …
Continue reading Charles F. Kettering

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

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

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

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

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

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

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.” 

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

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

“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”

“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”

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

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

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

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

 “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.”

“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

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

“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, …
Continue reading Henry Ford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.” 

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

“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.’”

“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

“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 …
Continue reading Tony Robbins

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

 “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”

“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.”

“The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

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

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

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