“Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“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.”

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

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

“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” 

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

“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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“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

“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.” 

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”

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

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

“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”

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

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

“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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“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

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

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

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”

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

“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.”

 “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of      a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”

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

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

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

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

“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

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

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

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

“The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your …
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“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they …
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“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”

“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.”

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

“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”

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

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”

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

“If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

“All humans are entrepreneurs; not because they should start companies; but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”