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

“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.”

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

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

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

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

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

“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

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

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

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

“The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your …
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“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”

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

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

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

“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

“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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“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”

“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”

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.”

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

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

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

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”

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

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

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

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

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

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

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

“You’re smart, you’re a survivor; use your intelligence and instincts to get to a better position than the one you’re in now”.

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

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.”

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result …
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The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.

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

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

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

“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

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

“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”

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

“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.

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Being good is good business.”

“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“Change before you have to.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

“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.”

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

“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.”

“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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“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“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.”

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

“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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“No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the …
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“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”