“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Great things in business are never done by one person. Theyre done by a team of people.”
Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”
Walter Cronkite
“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”
Charles F. Kettering
“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
“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
Drew Houston
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
Napoleon Hill
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley
“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.”
Rosalynn Carter
“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
Winston S. Churchill
“There is only one boss; The Customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”
Sam Walton
“Who wishes to fight must first count the cost”.
Sun Tzu, Ancient Chinese Military Strategist, Writer, and Philosopher
“Great companies are built on great products.”
Elon Musk
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs
“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”
Sam Walton
“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”
Mary D. Poole
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston S. Churchill
“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”
Jim Rohn, Entrepreneur, Author and Motivational Speaker
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
Ovid
“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
Margaret Thatcher
Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”
Michael Arrington
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Anonymous
“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”
Ray Kroc
“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.”
John Rampton
Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
Guy Kawasaki
“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”
Arnold Glasow
“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”
Henry W. Longfellow
“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”
Elon Musk
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.”
Peter Drucker
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”
Herbert Bayard Swope
“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”
Steve Jobs
“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”
Ingvar Kamprad
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.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
Paul Rand
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
Jeff Bezos
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney, Founder of Disneyland and Disney Studios
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
“If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.”
Robert F. Mager
“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
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
David Star Jordan
Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”
Roger Staubach
“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
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
Nancy D. Solomon
“Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.”
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
“Leadership is an action, not a position.”
Donald Mcgannon, former American Broadcasting Industry Executive
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.”
Henry Ford
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”
Reid Hoffman
“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”
Unknown
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
William Arthur Ward
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
William Arthur Ward
“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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Ray Goforth
“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”
Pat Riley
“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.”
Jocko Willink
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
Stephen Covey
“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
Ray Kroc
“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”
Bryant H. Mcgill
It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
Adlai E. Stevenson II
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Martin Luther
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
Colin Powell
“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If youre not passionate enough from the start, youll never stick …
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Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Winston S. Churchill
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning
Robert Kiyosaki
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
Thomas Edison
“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
John C. Maxwell
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they …
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Theodore Roosevelt
“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist and Philanthropist
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”
Tom Brokaw
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney
“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”
Steve Case
“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
Zig Ziglar
Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”
Mark Pincus
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
Henry Ford
“Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”
Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga
“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”
Stephen Covey
“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
Peter Drucker
“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
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
Warren Bennis
“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”
Jeffrey Zeldman
“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”
King George VI
“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”
Jason Fried
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”
Winston S. Churchill
“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
John C. Maxwell
“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
George S. Patton Jr., former US Army General during World War II
“Simplicity is a great way to build something that works well without costing too much.”
Richard Branson
“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.”
Edward Rickenbacker
“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”
Tony Robbins
“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.”
Margaret Wheatley
“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison, Inventor and Co-Founder of General Electric
If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
Biz Stone
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better
Jim Rohn
“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”
Tony Robbins
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
Henry Kissinger
“To add value to others, one must first value others.”