“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“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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“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

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

“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.”

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

“Being good is good business.”

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

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“Simplicity is a great way to build something that works well without costing too much.”

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

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

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

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

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”

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

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

“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”

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

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” 

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

“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 …
Continue reading Mark Parker

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

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

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

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

“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.” 

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

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

“When people talk, listen completely.”

“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.”

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

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

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

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

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

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

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

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

“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.” 

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

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

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

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

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

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

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

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

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

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

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

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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