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

“The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”

“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.”

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

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

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

“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.”

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

 “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

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

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

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

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

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”

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

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

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

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”

“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.”

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

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”

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

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

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.”

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

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

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

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”

“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”

“Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.”

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

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

“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.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an …
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“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.”

“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

“Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

 “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.”

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

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

“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”.

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

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

“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.”

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

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

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

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

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

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

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?”

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

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

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

“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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“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.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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