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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”

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

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

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.”

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

“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.” 

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

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

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

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

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

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

“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.”

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

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

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

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

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

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

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

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

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

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

“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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“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

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

“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.”

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

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

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

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

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

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

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

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

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

If The World Says “No”, You Say “Next”… Never Give Up

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“You’re smart, you’re a survivor; use your intelligence and instincts to get to a better position than the one you’re in now”.

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”

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

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

“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”

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

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?”

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

“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.”