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

“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 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.”

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

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

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to …
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“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the …
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“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, …
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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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

 “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.”

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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 led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

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

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

“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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“Change before you have to.”

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

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

“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”

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

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

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

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

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

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

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

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

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

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

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

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

“Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or …
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“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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

“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.”

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”

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

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

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

If The World Says “No”, You Say “Next”… Never Give Up

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

“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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