“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution …
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“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

“Change before you have to.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”

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

“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.”

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

“Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.”

“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the …
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“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”

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

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

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

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

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”

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

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

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

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

“Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s …
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“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

 “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.”

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

“Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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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“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”

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

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

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

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

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

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

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

“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of …
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“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

“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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“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.”

“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”

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

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

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

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

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

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

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

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

“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.

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

“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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“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

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

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

“No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the …
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“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.” 

“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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“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“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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“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”

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

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

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

“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die”.

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they …
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“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

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

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

“If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.”

“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

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

“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”

“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”