“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
Howard Schultz
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
Bill Gates
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
Reid Hoffman
“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.”
Martin Luther King
“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
Martin Luther
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
William Arthur Ward
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
Aristotle
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
John C. Maxwell
“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.”
Elon Musk
“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
Nikos Kazantzakis
“Always deliver more than expected.”
Larry Page
“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”
Peter Drucker
“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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Jim Rohn
Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”
Mark Pincus
“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”
Henry Ford
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
Stephen Covey
“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”
Noah Everett
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
David Star Jordan
“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”
Grace Murray Hopper
“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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Tony Robbins
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
Nancy D. Solomon
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
Steve Jobs
“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never …
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Steve Jobs
“No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.”
Unknown
“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
Jack Welch
“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
Napoleon Hill
“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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Jeff Bezos
“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
Winston S. Churchill
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”
Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga
“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”
Unknown
“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”
Zig Ziglar
“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’”
Tom Preston
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
John C. Maxwell
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
Jack Welch
“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”
Nelson Mandela
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting …
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Charles F. Kettering
“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”
Brian Tracy
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan
“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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Ben Silbermann
“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards it”
Ryan Allis
“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”
Oscar Wilde
“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”
Oprah Winfrey
“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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Thomas Edison
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”
Brian Tracy
“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”
Warren Bennis
“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy’s
“Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.”
Max De Pree
“The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter …
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Mark Parker
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 …
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Vivek Wadhwa
“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”
Richard Branson
“True leadership lies in guiding others to success; in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”
Bill Owens
“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”
Richard Branson
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
Conrad Hilton
Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
Guy Kawasaki
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs
“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”
Thomas Jefferson
“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”
Leroy Eimes, Writer
“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.”
Robert Townsend
“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”
Michael Dell
“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”
Harold Geneen
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
Bill Gates, Principal Founder of Microsoft Corporation
“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.”
Steve Jobs
“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”
Pierre Omidyar
“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.”
Sidney Sheldon, Author
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
Napoleon Hill
“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”
Fred Wilson
“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”
Japanese Proverb
“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”
Joel Barker
“Truth builds trust.”
Marilyn Suttle
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
Bill Gates
“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”
Garrett Camp
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Harold R. McAlindon
“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.”
John C. Maxwell
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
John D. Rockefeller
“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”
Walter Cronkite
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit.”
Conrad Hilton, Hotelier and Founder of Hilton Hotels
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
Jim Rohn
“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”
Anonymous
If The World Says “No”, You Say “Next”… Never Give Up
Jack Canfields
“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.”
Sheryl Sandberg
“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”
Jeanette Rankin
“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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Nelson Mandela
“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.”
Tim O’Reilly
“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”
John Zenger
“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
John C. Maxwell
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
Warren Buffett
Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”
Lisa Stone
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
Stephen Hawking
“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”
Sheryl Sandberg
“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”
Henry Ford
“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”