“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“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.’”

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

 “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.”

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

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

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

“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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“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

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

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” 

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

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

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

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

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

“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”

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

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

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

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

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

“The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.”

“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”

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

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

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

“No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.”

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

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

“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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“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

“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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“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”

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

 “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

  “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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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

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

“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.”

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

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

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

“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.”

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.”

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

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

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

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

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

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

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

The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”

“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”

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

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