“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

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

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

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

“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.”

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

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

“Change before you have to.”

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

“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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“You’re smart, you’re a survivor; use your intelligence and instincts to get to a better position than the one you’re in now”.

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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.”

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

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

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

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

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

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

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

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

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

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

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

“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

 “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.”

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

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

“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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“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”

“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.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Business is all about the customer; what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and …
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“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting …
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“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

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

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

“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, …
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“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

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

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

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

“When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.”

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

“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.”

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

“Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

“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 …
Continue reading Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

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

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

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And …
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“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.” 

“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” 

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”

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

“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.”

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

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

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

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

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

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

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

“All humans are entrepreneurs; not because they should start companies; but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”

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