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

“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 …
Continue reading Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

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

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

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

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

“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.

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

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

“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”

“Details create the big picture.”

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

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

“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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“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

“Being good is good business.”

“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”

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

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

“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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“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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 …
Continue reading Vivek Wadhwa

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

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

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” 

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

“You’re smart, you’re a survivor; use your intelligence and instincts to get to a better position than the one you’re in now”.

“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, …
Continue reading Henry Ford

“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”

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

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

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

 “Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.” 

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

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”

“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.”

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

“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 …
Continue reading Thomas Edison

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

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

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

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

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

“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards it”

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

“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 …
Continue reading Bill Gates

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

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

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

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

“Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

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

“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 …
Continue reading Spencer Fry

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

“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.”

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

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

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

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

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