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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

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

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

 “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.”

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

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

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

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

“Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

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

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

“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.

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

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

“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.”

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“You’re smart, you’re a survivor; use your intelligence and instincts to get to a better position than the one you’re in now”.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”

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

“If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk; then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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

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

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

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

“Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service.”

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

“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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“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.”

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”