“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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“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

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

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

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

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

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

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

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

“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.” 

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

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

“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”

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

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not …
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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Details create the big picture.”

“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”

“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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“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.” 

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

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

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

“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

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

“The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your …
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“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

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

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

“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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“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

“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.

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”

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

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

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

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

“Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

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

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”

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

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

“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“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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“Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.”

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

“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.”

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”