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

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

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

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

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

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”

“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”

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

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

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

“Change before you have to.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

“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.”

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

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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

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

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“If you think you are leading, and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”

“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.”

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

“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.’”

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

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

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not …
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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

“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.”

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

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” 

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

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

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

“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”