“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”

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

“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

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

“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.”

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

“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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“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.”

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

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

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

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” 

“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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“The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

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

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” 

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

“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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“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

“Simplicity is a great way to build something that works well without costing too much.”

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

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

“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“There is no progress without change.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”

“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.”

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

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

“Details create the big picture.”

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

“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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“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”

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

“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”

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

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

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” 

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”

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

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

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”

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

“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.”

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

 “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.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

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

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”