“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
Rosalynn Carter
“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”
Ken Blanchard
The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”
Rob Kalin
“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”
Jason Cohen
“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”
Pete Hoekstra
“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”
Lakshmi Mittal
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
Warren Bennis
“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”
Peter Daisyme
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”
Socrates
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
Steve Jobs
“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”
Anonymous
“Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.”
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
“If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”
Elon Musk
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
“Truth builds trust.”
Marilyn Suttle, Business Leader, Coach, Speaker, and Author
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
Stephen Covey
“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”
Lolly Daskal, Leadership Coach, Business Consultant and Author
“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”
Derren Brown
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
Bill Gates
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
Ovid
“Being good is good business.”
Anita Roddick
“Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”
Sallie Krawcheck
“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”
Brian Tracy
“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.”
Sam Walton
“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Truth builds trust.”
Marilyn Suttle
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
Henry Kissinger
“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.”
Bill Owens
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
Bruce Lee
“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”
Jeanette Rankin
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”
Reid Hoffman
“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.”
Peter Drucker
“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”
Stephen King
“In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
Napoleon Hill
“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”
Jeff Bezos
“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”
Henry Ford
“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
George S. Patton Jr., former US Army General during World War II
“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”
David Ogilvy
“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”
Bill Gates
“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”
Japanese Proverb
“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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Vince Lombardi
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Bill Gates
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas Edison
“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.”
Margaret Wheatley
“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”
Tony Robbins
“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”
Unknown
“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.”
Steven J. Stowell
“In a world thats changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”
Robert Kiyosaki
Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”
Lisa Stone
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
Warren Buffett
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
Howard Schultz
“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”
Mike Krzyzewski
“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
John C. Maxwell
“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”
Joel Barker
“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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Douglas MacArthur
“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”
Sheryl Sandberg
“Knowledge is power is time is money.”
Robert Thier
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Thomas Carlyle
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
Nancy D. Solomon
“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”
Brian Tracy
“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison, Inventor and Co-Founder of General Electric
The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
David Star Jordan
“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.”
Sam Walton
“Earn your leadership every day.”
Michael Jordan
“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”
Oscar De La Hoya
“The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.”
Margaret Wheatley, Management Consultant and Writer
“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”
Walter Cronkite
“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Winston S. Churchill
“Creativity without Strategy is called Art. Creativity with Strategy is called Advertising.”
Jeff I. Richards
“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”
Anonymous
“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”
Dr. Orison Swett Marden
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
John Wayne
“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”
Aristotle Onassis
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston S. Churchill
“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”
Solon
“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”
Zig Ziglar
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”
Stephen Covey
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”
Herbert Bayard Swope
“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”
Ryan Freitas
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“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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Jim Rohn
“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”
Chris Dixon
“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”
Michael Dell
“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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Nelson Mandela
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
Stephen Hawking
“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.”
Dave Weinbaum
“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”
Jake Nickell
“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”
Anonymous
“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”
Jason Fried
“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”
Mary D. Poole
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”