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

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

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

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”

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

“There is no progress without change.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”

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

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

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

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

 “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

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

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

“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.” 

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”

“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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“If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Details create the big picture.”

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

“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 “Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

“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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  “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

 “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 

“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.”

“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.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”

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

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

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

“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

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

“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 most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” 

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

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

“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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