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

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

“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.”

 “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

“Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people,” that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s …
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“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

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

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

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

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

“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.”

“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”

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

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

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

“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.”

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”

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

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

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

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

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

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

“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.” 

“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter …
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“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.”

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

“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”

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

  “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never …
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“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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  “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

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

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

“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”

“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”

“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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“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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

“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”

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

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

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

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

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

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

“Being good is good business.”

“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”

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

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

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

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

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

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