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

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

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

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

“Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s …
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“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

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

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

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

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

“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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“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

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

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

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

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”

“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”

If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.”

  “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

“In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

 “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

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

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

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

“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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“Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service.”

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

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

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“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.”

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

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

“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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“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”

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

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”

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

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

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

“There is no progress without change.”

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

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

“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

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

“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

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

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.”