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

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

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

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

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

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

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

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

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

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

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

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

“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”

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

“Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.”

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

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.”

“You manage things; you lead people.”

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

“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, …
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“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

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

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

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” 

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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.”

“Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”

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

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

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

“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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“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

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

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

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

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

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

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

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

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

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

“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.”

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

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

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

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

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

“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.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” 

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit.”

“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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“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“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.”

“Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

“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.” 

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

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

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

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

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

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

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

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