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

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

“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.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

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

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

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” 

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

“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.” 

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

“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

  “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

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

“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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“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”

“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’”

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

“The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter …
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“If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk; then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.

“Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

“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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“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.”

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

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

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

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

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

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.”

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

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

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

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”

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

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

“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.”

“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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“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

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

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

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

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

“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”

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

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

“The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

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

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

 “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

“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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“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

 “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.”

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

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