“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

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

“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”

  “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

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

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

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.”

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

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

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

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

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

“Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

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

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

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

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”

“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.”

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.”

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

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

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an …
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“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

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

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

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“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.”

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“All humans are entrepreneurs; not because they should start companies; but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”

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

 “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.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“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.”

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

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

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

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

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

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

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

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

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

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

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

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If youre not passionate enough from the start, youll never stick …
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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

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

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

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

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

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

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

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

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

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

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

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

“Details create the big picture.”

“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”

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

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

 “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.”

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.”

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

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

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