Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly.”

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

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

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

“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”

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

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

“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

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

“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”

“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.” 

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

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

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

 “Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.” 

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

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

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

“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”

“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“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.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

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

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

“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

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

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

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

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

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

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

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“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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“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

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

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

“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”

“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”

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

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

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

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

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” 

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

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

“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.”

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

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

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of …
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“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

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

“Business is all about the customer; what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and …
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“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

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

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

“Being good is good business.”

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

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

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

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

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

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

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

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

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

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

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

“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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“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

“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.”

 “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.”