“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

“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.” 

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”

“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.”

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“Details create the big picture.”

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

“You manage things; you lead people.”

“Great things in business are never done by one person. Theyre done by a team of people.”

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

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

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

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

“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.”

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to …
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“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

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

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

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

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

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

“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.”

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”

“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”

“Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.”

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

“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”

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

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

“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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“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.”

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

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” 

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

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

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of …
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“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

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

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

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not …
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“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

 “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

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

“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.”

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

“The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”

 “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of      a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

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

“Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.”

“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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“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

“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.”

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

“The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

 “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.”