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

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

“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 way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

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

“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

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

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” 

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

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

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

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

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

“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’”

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

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

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

“The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your …
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 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

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

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were 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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“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the …
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“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“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.”

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

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

“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.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

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

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

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

  “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

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

 “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

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

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

“Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

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

“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.” 

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

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

“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

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

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

“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.”