“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” 

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

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

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

“Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

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

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

“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”

“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

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

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

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

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

“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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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the …
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“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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“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”

“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

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

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

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

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

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

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

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

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.”

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

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

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

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

“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”

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

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

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

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

 “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.”

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

“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.” 

“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

“A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.”

 “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

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

“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.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“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.”

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

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” 

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

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

“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”

“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”.

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

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

“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.”

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

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