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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” 

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Details create the big picture.”

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

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

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

“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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Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.”

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

“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.” 

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

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

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

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

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

“The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your …
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“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”

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

“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 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.”

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

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

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

“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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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”

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

“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.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

“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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“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

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

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

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

“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”

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

“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.” 

“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.”

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

“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from …
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“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

“The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.”

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

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

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

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

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

“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”

“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.”

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

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

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

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

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die”.

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”

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

“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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“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.”

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

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”