“Details create the big picture.”

“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.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”

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

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

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an …
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“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

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

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

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

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

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

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

“There is no progress without change.”

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

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”

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

“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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“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

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

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

“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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  “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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“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

“There is only one boss; The Customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” 

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

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

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

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

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.”

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

 “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.”

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

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

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

“Being good is good business.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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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“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.”

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

“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.” 

“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 …
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“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

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

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

“Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people,” that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s …
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“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can 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.”

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

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

“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”

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

 “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.”

“You manage things; you lead people.”

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“You’re smart, you’re a survivor; use your intelligence and instincts to get to a better position than the one you’re in now”.

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

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

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

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”