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

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

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”

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

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

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

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

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

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

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

“The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter …
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 “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.” 

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

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

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

“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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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“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.”

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

“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

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

“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”

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

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

“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.”

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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

“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.”

“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.

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

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

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

 “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“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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“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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“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“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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“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.” 

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

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

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

“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“Being good is good business.”

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

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

“Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s …
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“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

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

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”

“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.”

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

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

“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”

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

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