“Truth builds trust.” 

“Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”

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

“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

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

“Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”

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

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

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.”

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

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

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid …
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“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

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

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

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

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

“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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“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

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

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

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

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

“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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“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

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

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

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

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” 

“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.”

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

“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or …
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“The time is always right to do what is right.”

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

“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.”

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

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

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

“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

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

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

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

“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.’”

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

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

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

“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

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

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”