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

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.”

 “Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

“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.

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

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

“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.”

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

“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”

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

“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.”

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

“No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.”

 “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.”

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”

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

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

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

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

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

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

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

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

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

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

“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.’”

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

“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.” 

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

“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.”

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

 “Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.” 

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

“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.”

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

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

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

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

“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”

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

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

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

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

“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.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.”

“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.”

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

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”