“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”
Grace Murray Hopper
“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”
Mike Tyson
“The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter …
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Mark Parker
“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius
“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”
Baltasar Gracián
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
Bill Gates
“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”
Larry Ellison
“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”
Jim Rohn
The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
Adlai E. Stevenson II
“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”
Pierre Omidyar
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting …
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Charles F. Kettering
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
Martin Luther
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
“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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John Kenneth Galbraith
“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”
Caterina Fake
“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
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
Warren Buffett
“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”
Anonymous
“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.”
Sam Walton
“Truth builds trust.”
Marilyn Suttle, Business Leader, Coach, Speaker, and Author
“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
Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh
“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”
Seth Godin
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
Maya Angelou
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”
Harvey S. Firestone
“Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.”
Chinese Proverb
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”
Gerard Way Singer
“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.”
Sheryl Sandberg, CEO of Facebook and Founder of LeanIn.org
“Some people dream of success; while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”
Wayne Huizenga
“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”
Peter Daisyme
“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
Nikos Kazantzakis
“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
“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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Spencer Fry
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Anonymous
“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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Jeff Bezos
“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”
Peter Drucker
“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
“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
“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”
Elon Musk
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
John C. Maxwell
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan
“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”
Leroy Eimes, Writer
“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”
Chris Grosser
“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”
Sheryl Sandberg
“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.”
Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy’s
“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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Theodore Roosevelt
“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
John C. Maxwell
“There is no progress without change.”
John Wooden
“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”
Pat Riley
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
Jeff Bezos
“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”
Charles F. Kettering
“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the …
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Tony Robbins
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”
Jonathan Winters
“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”
Bill Bradley
“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
“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
“If you think you are leading, and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”
Benjamin Hooks
Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”
Anthony Volodkin
“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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John Paul Dejoria
“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”
Orrin Woodward
“Great things in business are never done by one person. Theyre done by a team of people.”
Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
If The World Says “No”, You Say “Next”… Never Give Up
Jack Canfields
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
Colin Powell
“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.”
Steven J. Stowell
“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”
Jim Rohn, Entrepreneur, Author and Motivational Speaker
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And …
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Steve Jobs
“Change before you have to.”
Jack Welsh
“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”
Henry Ford
“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
“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.”
John Rampton
“Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”
David Karp
“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”
Lolly Daskal, Leadership Coach, Business Consultant and Author
“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”
Ken Blanchard
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
Jack Welch
“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”
Walter Cronkite
“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”
Nelson Mandela
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”
Lisa Stone, Co-founder and CEO of BlogHer
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
“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
George S. Patton Jr.
I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?”
Jill Konrath
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“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.”
Vince Lombardi
“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.”
Martin Luther King
“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”
Vivian Komori
“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”
Walter Cronkite
“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”
George Washington
“When people talk, listen completely.”
Ernest Hemingway
“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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Thomas Edison
“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.”
Steve Jobs
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
Steve Jobs
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
Bill Gates, Principal Founder of Microsoft Corporation
“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”
Warren Bennis
“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
Drew Houston
“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”