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

“Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.”

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

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

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

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

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

“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

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

“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.” 

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

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an …
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“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution …
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“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

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

“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.’”

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

  “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

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

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

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

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

 “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

 “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.”

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

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

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

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

“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.” 

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

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

“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.”

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

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

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

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

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

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

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

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

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

“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.”

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

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

“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.”

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

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

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