“Change before you have to.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die”.

“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

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

“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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“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

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

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

“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.”

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

“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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?”

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”

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

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

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”

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

“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.”

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”

“Business is all about the customer; what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and …
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“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“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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“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

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

“Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

  “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

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

“The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

 “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

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

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

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

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