Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”

“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.”

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

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

“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”

“Being good is good business.”

“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.”

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”

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

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

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

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: It was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not …
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“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

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

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

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

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”

“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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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

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

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

“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”

“Details create the big picture.”

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

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

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

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”

“All humans are entrepreneurs; not because they should start companies; but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

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

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

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

“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”

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

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

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

 “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.”

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

“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.”

The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”

“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

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

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

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

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

“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.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

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

“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.”

“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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Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

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

“When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.”

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

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