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

“Details create the big picture.”

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

“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.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

“No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.”

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

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

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

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

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

“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”

“Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s …
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“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”

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

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

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

“If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk; then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

 “Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

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

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

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

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

“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”

“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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“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”

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

“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.” 

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”

“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.”

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

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

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

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

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

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

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

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

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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 “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”

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

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

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

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

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

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

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

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

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

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

“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution …
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“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.”