“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

“There is no progress without change.”

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

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

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

“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.’”

“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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“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.” 

“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.”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

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

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

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

 “Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

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

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

“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

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

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

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

“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 …
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“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

If The World Says “No”, You Say “Next”… Never Give Up

 “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.”

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

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

“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.”

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

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

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

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

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

“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.”

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

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”

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

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

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

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

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the …
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“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”

“Details create the big picture.”

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

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

“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.”

“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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“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

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

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

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”

“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.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

“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.”

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

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

“The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

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

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

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

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

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