“Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

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

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

“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”

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

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

“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.”

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

“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”

“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.”

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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?”

“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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“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”

 “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.”

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

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

“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.” 

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

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

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

“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

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

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

“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

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

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

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; …
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“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”

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

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

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

“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.”

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

“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

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

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

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

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

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

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”

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