“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

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

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

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

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

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”

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

“No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the …
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“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

“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.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

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

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

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

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

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

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

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” 

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

“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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“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

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

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die”.

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

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

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

“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.”

“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

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

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

“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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“When people talk, listen completely.”

“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.”

 “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.”

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

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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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 “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.”

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

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

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

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

“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”

“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

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

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

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

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