“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 any goal.”

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

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” 

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

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

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

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

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

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

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“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, is bound to succeed.”

“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 much else, is the essence of leadership.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”

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

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

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

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

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

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

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

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“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 from behind.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”

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

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

  “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 stick it out.” 

“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”.

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

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

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

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

“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”

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

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

“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 is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.”

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”

“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

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

“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

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

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

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

“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 tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”

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

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

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

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“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 of doing business.”

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

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

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“There is no progress without change.”

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”

“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.”

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

“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”

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

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

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

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