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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”

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

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

“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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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”

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

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“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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“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”

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

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

 “Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.” 

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

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

“The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”

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

“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.”

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

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”

If The World Says “No”, You Say “Next”… Never Give Up

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

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

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

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?”

“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.”

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

 “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.”

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

“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

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

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

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

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

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”

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

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

“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”

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

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

“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.”

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

“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.” 

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

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

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

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

“Change before you have to.”

“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

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

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”

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