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

“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.”

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

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

“The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“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.”

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

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

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

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”

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

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

  “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never …
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“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

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

“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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 “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

“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.”

“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”

“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.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?”

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

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

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

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“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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“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

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

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

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

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

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

“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

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

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

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

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“There is no progress without change.”

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

“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.”

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

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

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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 leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

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

“Details create the big picture.”

“Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

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

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

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

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

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the …
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“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result …
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“Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s …
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“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

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

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

“A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.”

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”

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