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

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

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

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

“No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the …
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“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

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

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

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

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

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

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.”

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

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

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

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

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

“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.’”

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

“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.”

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

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

“Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything.  I myself …
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“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

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

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

“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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“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”

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

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

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

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

“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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“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

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

“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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“There is no progress without change.”

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

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Who wishes to fight must first count the cost”.

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

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

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

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

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

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

“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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“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 “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.”

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

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

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

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

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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