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

“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, …
Continue reading Henry Ford

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

“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”

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

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not …
Continue reading Jim Rohn

 “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.”

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

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

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”

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

“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.”

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

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

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

“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 …
Continue reading Theodore Roosevelt

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“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 …
Continue reading John Kenneth Galbraith

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

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

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

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

“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 …
Continue reading John Paul Dejoria

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”

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

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

“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.’”

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

“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.”

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”

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

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

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

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

“Earn your leadership every day.”

“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

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

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

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

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

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

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

“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 …
Continue reading Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

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

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

 “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.”

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

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”

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

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”

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

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

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

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

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”

“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.”

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

“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”

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

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

“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.”

“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 …
Continue reading Nelson Mandela

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and youre in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.” 

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; …
Continue reading Barack Obama

“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”

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

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”

“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.”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”