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

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

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

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

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

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

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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“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

“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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  “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never …
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“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

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

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

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

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

“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.” 

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”

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

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

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“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.”

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?”

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

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to …
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“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”

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

“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards it”

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

“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”

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.”

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.”

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

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

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.”

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.”

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

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

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

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

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”

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

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

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

 “Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”

“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.”