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

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

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

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

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

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

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

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

“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

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

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

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

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

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

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

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

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

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

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

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

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”

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

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

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

“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.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

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

“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.”

 “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.”

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

“Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

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

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

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

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

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

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

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

“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that 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?”

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

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

“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

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

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

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

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; …
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“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.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

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

“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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“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

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

“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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  “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards it”