“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”

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

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

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

“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”

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

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

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

“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 …
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“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 work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And …
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“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.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”

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

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

“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”

 “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.”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

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

“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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“Truth builds trust.” 

“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”

“You manage things; you lead people.”

“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.”

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“All humans are entrepreneurs; not because they should start companies; but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”

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

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

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

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

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

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

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

“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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 “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.”

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.”

“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution …
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“In a world thats changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

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

“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”

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

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

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.”

“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.”

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

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

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

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

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”

“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

“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.”

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

“Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.”

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

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

“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

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

“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.” 

“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.”