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

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

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

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

 “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

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

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

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

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

“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

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

If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

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

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”

“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.”

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

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

“No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the …
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“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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“Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.”

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

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

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

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

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

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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, …
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“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

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

“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.”

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

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

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

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

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

“There is no progress without change.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

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

“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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“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

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

“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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“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”