“Details create the big picture.”

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

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

“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of      a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of               a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

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

 “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of      a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

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

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

“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.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

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

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

“Simplicity is a great way to build something that works well without costing too much.”

“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, …
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“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

“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.”

“A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.”

“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

  “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

“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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“True leadership lies in guiding others to success; in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”

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.”

“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.”

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

“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards it”

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

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

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

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

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

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

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“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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“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

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

“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”

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

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

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”

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

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

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

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

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

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

“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or …
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“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

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

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

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

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

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

“If you think you are leading, and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”

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

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

“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

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

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

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

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

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

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

“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.” 

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

“Change before you have to.”

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