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

“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.”

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

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

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”

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

“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”

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

“No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.”

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

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

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

 “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.”

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

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

“Creativity without Strategy is called Art. Creativity with Strategy is called Advertising.”

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

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

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

“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.”

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

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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 …
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“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” 

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

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

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

  “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 …
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“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

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

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

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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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“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.’”

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

 “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

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

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

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

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

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

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

“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from …
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“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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