“Simplicity is a great way to build something that works well without costing too much.”

“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”

“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.”

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

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

“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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“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.”

“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”

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

 “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

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

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.” 

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

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

“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.”

“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

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

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

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

“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.”

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

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

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

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

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

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

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

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

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

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

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

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

“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”

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

 “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

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

“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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“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“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 successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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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“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

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

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

“Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”

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

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

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

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

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

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s 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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“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

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

“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.”

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

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