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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

  “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never …
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 “Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” 

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“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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“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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.”

“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.”

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

“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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“Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.”

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

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

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

“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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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

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

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

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

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

“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.”

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

“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.’”

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

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

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

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

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

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

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

“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”

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

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

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.”

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

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

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

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

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

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”

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

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

“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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“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.”

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

“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

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

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

“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

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

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

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

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