“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.”

“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or …
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Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”

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

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

“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.”

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”

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

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

 “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.” 

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

“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.”

“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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“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”

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

“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”

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

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

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

“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.”

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

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

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

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

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

“True leadership lies in guiding others to success; in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”

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

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

“There is no progress without change.”

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

“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.’”

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything.  I myself …
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“The time is always right to do what is right.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Change before you have to.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

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

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

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

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

“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 …
Continue reading Douglas MacArthur

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”

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

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

“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

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

“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 …
Continue reading Woodrow Wilson

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

“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 …
Continue reading James Rouse

“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

 “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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