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

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

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

“Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

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

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

“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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“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.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid …
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“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” 

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

 “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.”

“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”

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

  “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

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

“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.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”

“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.” 

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

“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.”

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

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”

“Great companies are built on great products.”

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

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

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.”

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

“True leadership lies in guiding others to success; in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result …
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“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”

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

“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

“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.”

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

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

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

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

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

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