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

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

“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”

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

“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

“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.”

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”

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

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

“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.” 

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

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.”

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

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

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

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

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

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

“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.”

“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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“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”

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

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.”

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

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

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

“The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.”

“Who wishes to fight must first count the cost”.

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

“If you think you are leading, and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

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

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

“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”

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

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

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

“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out …
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“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.”

“The price of greatness is 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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