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

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

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

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

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

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

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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?”

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting …
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“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”

“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”

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

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”

“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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“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”

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

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

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” 

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

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

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

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

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

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

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

“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.’”

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

“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.”

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

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

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

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

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

“Some people dream of success; while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”

“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.”

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

“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.” 

“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”

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

“All humans are entrepreneurs; not because they should start companies; but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”

“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.”

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

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

“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”