“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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

“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”

“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”

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

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

“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.”

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.”

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”

“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“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 follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” 

 “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

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

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

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.”

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”

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

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

 “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.”

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

“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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“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”

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

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

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

“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

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

“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.”

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

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 

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

“There is no progress without change.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

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.”

“The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.”

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

“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”

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

“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”

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

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

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

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

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

“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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“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

“Truth builds trust.”