“You’re smart, you’re a survivor; use your intelligence and instincts to get to a better position than the one you’re in now”.

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

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

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

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly.”

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

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

“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

  “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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Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”

“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.”

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

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”

“No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the …
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“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”

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.”

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

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

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

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid …
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“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” 

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?”

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

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

“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.” 

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

 “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.”

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

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

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

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

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

“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

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

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

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” 

“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

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

“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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“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“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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“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

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

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

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