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

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

“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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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“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

“No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.”

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

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

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?”

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the …
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 “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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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“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.” 

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 “Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

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

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

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

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or …
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“Change before you have to.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

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

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” 

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”

“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

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

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

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

“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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“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”

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

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

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”