“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the …
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“If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.”

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

 “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”

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

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

“Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.”

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

“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

If The World Says “No”, You Say “Next”… Never Give Up

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“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.”

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

“There is no progress without change.”

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

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

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

“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.” 

“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.” 

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

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

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

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

“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.”

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for 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.”

“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.”

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

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

“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

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

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

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

“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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“Change before you have to.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”

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

“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.”

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“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.”

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

“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.”

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

“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

 “Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

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

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

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

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”