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

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

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

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

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

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

“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”

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

“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.”

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

“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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“The time is always right to do what is right.”

 “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.”

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: It was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not …
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“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.” 

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

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

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

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

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”

“Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

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

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

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

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

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

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“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.”

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

“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.”

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the …
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“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

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

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

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

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

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

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

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

“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.”

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’”

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

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

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

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

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

  “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 unlocking peoples potential to become better.”