“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

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

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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

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

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

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

“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 worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

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

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

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

“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 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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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.”

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

  “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

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

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

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

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

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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 ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

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

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

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

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

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

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

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid …
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“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

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

“If you think you are leading, and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

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

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

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

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

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

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

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And …
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“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

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.”

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

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

“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”

“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.”

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

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

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

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

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

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

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

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.”

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

“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.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

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

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

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

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

“Details create the big picture.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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