“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
David Star Jordan
“Knowledge is power is time is money.”
Robert Thier
“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
John C. Maxwell
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”
Mary D. Poole
“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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Sara Blakely
“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”
David Karp
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”
Theodore Isaac Rubin
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
Jack Welch
“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.”
Margaret Wheatley
“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”
Robert Noyce
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”
Michael John Bobak
“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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Bill Gates
“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.”
Steve Jobs
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
Lao Tzu
“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”
Thomas Edison
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
Stephen Hawking
“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”.
Amr Badran, Business Consultant, Blogger and Entrepreneur
“Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people,” that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s …
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Peter Drucker
“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.
Latin Proverb
“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”
Pierre Omidyar
Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”
Lisa Stone
“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”
Dr. Orison Swett Marden
“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and youre in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.”
Sidney Sheldon, Author
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
John C. Maxwell
“There are no office hours for leaders.”
Cardinal J. Gibbons
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Winston S. Churchill
“Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.”
Donald Johanson
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
Zig Ziglar
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
Henry Ford
“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”
Lolly Daskal, Leadership Coach, Business Consultant and Author
“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”
Peter Drucker
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
Martin Luther
“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison, Inventor and Co-Founder of General Electric
Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”
Michael Arrington
“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
Tony Blair
“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”
Elon Musk
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States
“Truth builds trust.”
Marilyn Suttle, Business Leader, Coach, Speaker, and Author
“Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.”
Satya Nadella
“Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.”
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”
Zig Ziglar
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas Edison
“When people talk, listen completely.”
Ernest Hemingway
“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”
Derren Brown
“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”
Stephen Covey
“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.”
Edward Rickenbacker
It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
Adlai E. Stevenson II
“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”
Joel Barker
“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”
Carlos Ghosn
“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”
Jason Cohen
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
Bill Cosby
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”
John Buchan
“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist and Philanthropist
“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”
George Washington
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.”
P. T. Barnum
“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”
Arnold Glasow
“Leadership is an action, not a position.”
Donald Mcgannon, former American Broadcasting Industry Executive
Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”
Roger Staubach
“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”
David Ogilvy
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
Aristotle
“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”
Peter Daisyme
“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”
Tim Grover
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
John C. Maxwell
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
Steve Jobs
“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”
Charles F. Kettering
“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.’”
Tom Preston
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
Thomas Edison, Inventor and Co-Founder of General Electric
“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.”
Elon Musk
“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.”
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook
“The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”
Albert Einstein
“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”
Sam Rayburn
“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”
Henry Ford
“Simplicity is a great way to build something that works well without costing too much.”
Richard Branson
“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”
Vivian Komori
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
Howard Schultz
“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”
Tony Robbins
“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”
Stephen King
“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 …
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Nelson Mandela
“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”
Ken Blanchard
“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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Vince Lombardi
“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
Ray Kroc
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
Benjamin Franklin
The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”
Rob Kalin
“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
Zig Ziglar
“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”
Larry Ellison
“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.”
Edward Rickenbacker
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
Margaret Fuller
“In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“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.”
Rosalynn Carter
“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”
Les Brown
“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”
Ingvar Kamprad
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
John Wayne
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
Steve Jobs
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”