“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

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

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

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

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

“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”.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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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“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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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“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

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

“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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“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

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

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of …
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“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

“When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.”

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

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

“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.”

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

 “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.”

“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”

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

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

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

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

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

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

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

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

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

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

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

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

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

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

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

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“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.”

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

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

“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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“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”

“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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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“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”

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

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” 

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

“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”

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

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

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

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

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

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

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

“Some people dream of success; while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”