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.”

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”

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

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

“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

“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.”

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

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

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”

“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.”

“When people talk, listen completely.”

“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”

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

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

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

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

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to …
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“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”

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

“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.”

“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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“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an …
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“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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.”

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

“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

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

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”

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

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

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

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

“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.”

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

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

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?”

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

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

“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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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.”

“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”

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

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

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”

 “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.”

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not …
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“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“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.”

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you’re in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.” 

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

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

“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.’”

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit.”

“You manage things; you lead people.”

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

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

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

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

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

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

“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.”

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