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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

“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.” 

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

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

“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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“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

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

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

“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

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.”

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

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

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

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

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”

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

“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.”

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

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

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

“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“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.”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

 “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.”

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

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

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

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

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

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

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

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

“Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”

“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.”

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

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

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

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

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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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