“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“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.”

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

“The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”

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

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

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

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

“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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“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”

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

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

 “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“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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“The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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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“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”

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

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

 “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.”

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

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

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

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

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”

“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”

“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.”

“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

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

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

“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”

“Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.”

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

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

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

  “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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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.”

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

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

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

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

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

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

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

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And …
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“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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

“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.’”

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

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

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

“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.”

“Change before you have to.”

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

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

“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.”

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

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”

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

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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