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

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

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

“Being good is good business.”

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

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

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

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”

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

“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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“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit.”

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

 “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.”

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

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

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

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

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

“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.”

“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.” 

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

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

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

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

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

If The World Says “No”, You Say “Next”… Never Give Up

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

“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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“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

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

“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”

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

“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”

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

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

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

“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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“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.”

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

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

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

“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

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

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

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

“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of …
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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

“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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“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

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

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

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

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

“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

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

“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”

“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”

“There is no progress without change.”

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”