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

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

“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”

“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.

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

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

“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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“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”

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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“There is no progress without change.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“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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“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

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

“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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“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

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

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”

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

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

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

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

“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”

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

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

“The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter …
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“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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“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

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

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“Change before you have to.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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