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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

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

“There is no progress without change.”

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

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

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

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

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

“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 pinch, human beings are heroic.”

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

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

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

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.”

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

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

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

“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 timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

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

“Details create the big picture.”

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

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

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

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

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

“You’re smart, you’re a survivor; use your intelligence and instincts to get to a better position than the one you’re in now”.

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

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

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

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

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

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

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

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

“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.” 

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

“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.”

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

“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 face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.”

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”

 “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.”

“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 the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”

“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 hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

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

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

“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 much else, is the essence of leadership.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

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

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

“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.”