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

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

“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the …
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“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

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

“Details create the big picture.”

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

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

“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”

“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.” 

“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.”

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

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

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

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

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“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.”

“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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“Change before you have to.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.” 

“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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“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

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

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

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

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?”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” 

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of …
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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.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

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

“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.”

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

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

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

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

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

“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.”

“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”

“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.”

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

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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