“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”

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

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

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”

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

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

“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.” 

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

“Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.”

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

“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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“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the …
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“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”

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

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

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

 “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.”

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

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

“Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.”

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”

“Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.”

“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.”

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

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

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

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

“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”

The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”

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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“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

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

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

“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.” 

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

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?”

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

“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

“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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However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

“Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.”