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

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

“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.”

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

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

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

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

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

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

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

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

“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.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and youre in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.” 

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

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid …
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“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”

“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.”

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

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

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

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

“There is no progress without change.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

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

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

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

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“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.

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”

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

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

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

“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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“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 amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.”

“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

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

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

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”

“You manage things; you lead people.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

“Change before you have to.”

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

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

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If youre not passionate enough from the start, youll never stick …
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“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.”

“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”

 “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

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

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

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

“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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“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”