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

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

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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?”

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

“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.”

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

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

“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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“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

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

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

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

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

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

“Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”

“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”

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

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

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

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

“Details create the big picture.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”

“There is no progress without change.”

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

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

 “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.”

“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”

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

“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.”

“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”

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

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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