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

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

“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.”

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”

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

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

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

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

 “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.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

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

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

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

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

“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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If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.”

 “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”

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

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”

“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.”

“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”

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

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

 “Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.” 

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

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

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

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

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

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”

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

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

“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

 “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.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

“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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“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

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

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

“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.”

“Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service.”

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

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

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

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

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

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

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

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

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

“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.”

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

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“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.”

“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”

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?”

“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die”.

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

“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.”

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

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

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