“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.”

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

“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”

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

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

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

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.”

“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.” 

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

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting …
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“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of …
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“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”

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

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

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

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”

 “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.”

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

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

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

“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.”

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

“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or …
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“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”

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

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

“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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“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

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

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

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“Details create the big picture.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“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.

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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

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

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

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

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

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

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

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

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

“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

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

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

“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.”

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

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

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“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.”

“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”