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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”

“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards it”

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“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.” 

“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”

“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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“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

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

“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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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

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

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

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

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”

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

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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“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”

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

“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”

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

“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.”

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.”

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

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

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

“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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“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” 

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

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

“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.”

“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

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

“Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.”

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

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

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

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 

“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.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“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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“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”

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

“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.”

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.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“Details create the big picture.”

“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”

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

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

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

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

“Who wishes to fight must first count the cost”.

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” 

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

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

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

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”

“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.”

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

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

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Dont wish it were easier; wish you were better.”