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

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

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

“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

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

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

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

“When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.”

“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 highest of distinctions is service to others.”

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“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.”

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

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

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

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

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

“You manage things; you lead people.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

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

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

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

“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; …
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“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” 

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

“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.”

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

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

“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.’”

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“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.”

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the …
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“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

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

“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never …
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“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

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

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

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

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

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“Creativity without Strategy is called Art. Creativity with Strategy is called Advertising.”

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

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

 “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.” 

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

“There is no progress without change.”

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

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

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

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

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

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

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

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

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

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

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

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Dont wish it were easier; wish you were better.”

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