“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.”

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

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

“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

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

“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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“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”

“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”

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

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

“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 …
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“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

“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.”

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

“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.”

“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”

“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.”

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”

“Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.”

“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.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

“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.”

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

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

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

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” 

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

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

“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

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

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

“Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

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

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

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

 “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.”

“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.”

“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”

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

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

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

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”

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

“No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the …
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“If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.”

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

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

“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”

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

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

“If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk; then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

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

“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

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

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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“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”