“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out …
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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.”

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

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

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

 “Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.” 

“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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“The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter …
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“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

“There is no progress without change.”

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

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

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

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

“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.”

“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

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

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

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

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

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“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.”

“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.

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 

“Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything.  I myself …
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“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.” 

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

“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

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

“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

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

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

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

“Being good is good business.”

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

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

“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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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And …
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“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”

“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.’”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If youre not passionate enough from the start, youll never stick …
Continue reading Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”

“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.”

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

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

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