“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
Vidal Sassoon
“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”
Ryan Freitas
“Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.”
Chinese Proverb
“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”
Derren Brown
“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.”
Arianna Huffington
“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
Conrad Hilton
“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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Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
“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.’”
Tom Preston
“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.”
Peter Shankman
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
Colin Powell
“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.”
Peter Drucker
“Some people dream of success; while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”
Wayne Huizenga
“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“There is no progress without change.”
John Wooden
“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”
Walter Cronkite
“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”
George Washington
“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.”
Edward Rickenbacker
The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”
Rob Kalin
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney
“All humans are entrepreneurs; not because they should start companies; but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”
Reid Hoffman
“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”
Brian Tracy
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting …
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Charles F. Kettering
“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
Jack Welch
“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”
Mike Krzyzewski
“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”
Jim Collins
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
Jim Rohn
“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”
Anonymous
Nothing works better than just improving your product.”
Joel Spolsky
“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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John Kenneth Galbraith
“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”
Kyle Bragger
“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
Drew Houston
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
Steve Jobs
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney, Founder of Disneyland and Disney Studios
“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”
Lakshmi Mittal
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
Warren Buffett
“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to …
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Vivek Wadhwa
“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”
Adena Friedman
“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”
Brian Tracy
“Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.”
Satya Nadella
“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”
James Humes
“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”
Scott Belsky
“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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Nelson Mandela
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
David Star Jordan
“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”
Les Brown
“Earn your leadership every day.”
Michael Jordan
“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”
Noah Everett
“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”
Peter Daisyme
“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”
Richard Branson
“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”
Chris Grosser, Photographer
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
Henry Kissinger
“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.”
Robert Townsend
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
Aristotle
“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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Jeff Bezos
“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.”
Donald Johanson
“There are no office hours for leaders.”
Cardinal J. Gibbons
“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.”
Martin Luther King
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
Thomas Edison
“The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”
Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder LinkedIn
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
Martin Luther
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
Ovid
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an …
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Bill Gates
“If you think you are leading, and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”
Benjamin Hooks
“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.”
Ray Kroc
“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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Peter Drucker
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”
Socrates
“Truth builds trust.”
Marilyn Suttle, Business Leader, Coach, Speaker, and Author
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
Jeff Bezos
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States
“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”
Stephen Covey
“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”
Michael Dell
Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”
Mark Pincus
“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”
Garrett Camp
“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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Theodore Roosevelt
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
Lao Tzu
“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”
Charles F. Kettering
“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
Paul Rand
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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Barack Obama
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
Reid Hoffman
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.”
Jason Calacanis
“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.”
Theodore Isaac Rubin
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
Warren Buffett
“Truth builds trust.”
Marilyn Suttle
“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
“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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Ben Silbermann
“Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”
Tilman J. Fertitta
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
Colin Powell
“No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the …
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Spencer Fry
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”
J.P. Morgan
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Peter Drucker
“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”
Unknown
“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”
Fred Wilson
“In a world thats changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
William Arthur Ward
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
Jack Welch
“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.”