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

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

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“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.”

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

 “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.”

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

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

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

“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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“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.”

“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”

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

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

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

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

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

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

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

“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’”

“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and youre in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.” 

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

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

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

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid …
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“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“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.”

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

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

“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards it”

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

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

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

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

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

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”

“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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However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

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

“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

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

“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.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”

“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

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

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

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?”

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

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

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