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

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

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

“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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“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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“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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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“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.”

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

“Change before you have to.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”

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

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

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

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

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to 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 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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“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

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

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

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

 “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

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

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“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.”

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

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

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

“The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”

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

“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”

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

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

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

“All humans are entrepreneurs; not because they should start companies; but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”

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

“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 can dream it, you can do it.”

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

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

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

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

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

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

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

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

“Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”

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

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

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

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”

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

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” 

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

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