“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.”

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

 “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Details create the big picture.”

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

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”

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

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.”

“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.”

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

“Business is all about the customer; what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and …
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“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Dont wish it were easier; wish you were better.”

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

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

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

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

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

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

“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die”.

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

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

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

“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“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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“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.”

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

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”

“Who wishes to fight must first count the cost”.

“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.”

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

“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.

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

“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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“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out …
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“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“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.”

“Change before you have to.”

“To add value to others, one must first value 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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“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”

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

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“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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“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”

 “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

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

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

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

“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”

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

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?”

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

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

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

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

“Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”