“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.”

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

“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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“Some people dream of success; while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”

“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

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

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

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

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”

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

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

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

“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.’”

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

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

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

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

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

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

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” 

“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 …
Continue reading Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

“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.”

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

“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.”

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

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

“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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“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.”

“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, …
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“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.”

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

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

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“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.”

“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

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

“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”

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

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

“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“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.”

 “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

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

“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.”

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

“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”

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

“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”

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

“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.” 

“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 …
Continue reading John Kenneth Galbraith

“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.”

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” 

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“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.”

“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 …
Continue reading Nelson Mandela

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

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

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