“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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“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

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

The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”

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

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

  “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

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

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

“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.”

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

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

“Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service.”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

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

“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”

“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”

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

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”

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

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”

  “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

“Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.”

“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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Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“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.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“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 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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“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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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“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

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

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

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

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

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

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”

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

Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”

“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”

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

“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.”

“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.”

“The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.”

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

“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

“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.”

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

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

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

“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.”

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

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

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

“Being good is good business.”

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

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

“In a world thats changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

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

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

“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”

“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.”

“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”

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.”

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

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

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”

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

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

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

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

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

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”