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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

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

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

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

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

“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.”

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

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.”

“If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.”

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not …
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“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.”

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

“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”

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

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

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

“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 …
Continue reading Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

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

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

 “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

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

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