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

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

“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”

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

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

“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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“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

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?”

“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

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

“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”

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

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

“Great things in business are never done by one person. Theyre done by a team of people.”

“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.”

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save 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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“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

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; …
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“Truth builds trust.” 

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

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

“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the …
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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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“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

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

“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 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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“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”

“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.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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, …
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“Simplicity is a great way to build something that works well without costing too much.”

“Change before you have to.”

“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”

“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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“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If youre not passionate enough from the start, youll never stick …
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“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”

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

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

“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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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“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.

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Creativity without Strategy is called Art. Creativity with Strategy is called Advertising.”

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

“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”

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

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

“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.”

“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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