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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

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

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

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

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”

“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.”

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

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

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

“Details create the big picture.”

“All humans are entrepreneurs; not because they should start companies; but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”

“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.’”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”

“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 …
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“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

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

“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.”

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

“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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“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“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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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”

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

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

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

“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

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