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

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

“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”

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

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

“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.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

“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.

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

“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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“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

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

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

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

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

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“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.”

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

“Being good is good business.”

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.” 

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

“Creativity without Strategy is called Art. Creativity with Strategy is called Advertising.”

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.”

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

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

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

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

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

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

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

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

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

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

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Change before you have to.”

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

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

“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.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

  “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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“Always deliver more than expected.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

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

“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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“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“Great companies are built on great products.”

 “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.”

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

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

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If youre not passionate enough from the start, youll never stick …
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“Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”

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?”

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

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

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” 

“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”

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

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

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

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

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

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

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

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

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

“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.”