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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.” 

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

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

“The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

“True leadership lies in guiding others to success; in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”

“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.”

“If you think you are leading, and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”

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

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

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of      a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of               a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.”

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

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

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

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

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly.”

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

“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

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

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

“Details create the big picture.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”

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

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

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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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“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

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

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

“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”

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

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

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

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

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

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

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

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”