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

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

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

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

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.”

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

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

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

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?”

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

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

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

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”

“Change before you have to.”

“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.’”

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

“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”

“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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“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“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.”

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

“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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“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.”

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

“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”

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

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

“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”

“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.”

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

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.”

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

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

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

“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

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

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

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” 

“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”

“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”.

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

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the …
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 “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

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

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

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

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

“There is only one boss; The Customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

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

“Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people,” that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s …
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“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

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

“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

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

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

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

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

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

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

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

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

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

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

“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”

“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out …
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“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

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