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

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

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

“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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“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

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

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” 

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

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

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

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

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

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

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; …
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“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

 “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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?”

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

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

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

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

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

“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

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

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

“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.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

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

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

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting …
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“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”

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

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

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

“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”

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

“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.” 

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

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

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

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

“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”

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

 “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

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

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

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

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Being good is good business.”

“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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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.”

“Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”

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

“Change before you have to.”

“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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“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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“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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“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 

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

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

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

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”

“If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk; then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

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

“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”

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

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

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