If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.”
Marissa Mayer
“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.”
Tim O’Reilly
“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.”
Margaret Wheatley
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
Biz Stone
“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”
Sam Walton
“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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Sara Blakely
“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
Publilius Syrus
“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the …
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Tony Robbins
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
Steve Jobs
“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
“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”
Steve Jobs
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.”
Jason Calacanis
“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”
Grace Murray Hopper
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
Zig Ziglar
“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.”
Steve Jobs
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
Steve Jobs
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
Benjamin Franklin
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
Thomas Edison
“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”
Vivian Komori
“Creativity without Strategy is called Art. Creativity with Strategy is called Advertising.”
Jeff I. Richards
“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”
Tony Hsieh
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
Colin Powell
“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”
Ingvar Kamprad
“True leadership lies in guiding others to success; in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”
Bill Owens
“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”
Mary D. Poole
“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.”
Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Author
“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”
Ray Kroc
“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.
Latin Proverb
“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”
Arnold Glasow
“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”
Estee Lauder
“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
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
“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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Ray Goforth
“Change before you have to.”
Jack Welsh
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
Stephen Hawking
“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
Paul Rand
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
Conrad Hilton
“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”
Jeff Bezos
“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”
Oprah Winfrey
“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
“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”
King George VI
The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”
Warren Bennis
“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”
Peter Daisyme
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
Bill Gates, Principal Founder of Microsoft Corporation
“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
George S. Patton Jr., former US Army General during World War II
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
“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
“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
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
John F. Kennedy
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
“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”
Jim Rohn
“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”
Confucius
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
Warren Buffett
“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”
Baltasar Gracián
“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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Vince Lombardi
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston S. Churchill
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”
Chris Dixon
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
Warren Bennis
“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”
Unknown
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
Vince Lombardi
“There is no progress without change.”
John Wooden
The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”
Chris Grosser
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”
Michael John Bobak
“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”
Warren Bennis
“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”
Larry Page
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
Jack Welch
“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
Zig Ziglar
“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”
Pierre Omidyar
“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”
Jeffrey Zeldman
“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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Henry Ford
“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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Fabrizio Moreira
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
Herman Melville
“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”
Garrett Camp
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney, Founder of Disneyland and Disney Studios
“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”
Bill Bradley
“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
Winston S. Churchill
“Being good is good business.”
Anita Roddick
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
John Wayne
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
Aristotle
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”
Dave Thomas
“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”
Pat Riley
“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”
Stephen Covey
“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”
Walter Cronkite
“Who wishes to fight must first count the cost”.
Sun Tzu
“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
Nikos Kazantzakis
“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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Mark Parker
“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”
David Karp
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas Edison
“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”
Sam Rayburn
“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.
“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”
Aristotle Onassis
“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”