“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.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”

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

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

“Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.”

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

“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”

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

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

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

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.”

“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”

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

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

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

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

“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

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

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

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

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

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

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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“Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

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

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

 “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

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

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

“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.”

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

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

“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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“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.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are 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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“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”

“Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

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

“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 ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

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

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

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

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

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

“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.”

 “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

“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.”

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

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