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

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

“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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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

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

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the …
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“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

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

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

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

“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die”.

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

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

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

“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result …
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“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.”

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

“True leadership lies in guiding others to success; in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”

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

“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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“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

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

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

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

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

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

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” 

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

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

“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

“No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

 “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.” 

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

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

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

“Change before you have to.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.

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

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

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

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

“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

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

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

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

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

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.”

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

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

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they …
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“Some people dream of success; while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”

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

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

“You’re smart, you’re a survivor; use your intelligence and instincts to get to a better position than the one you’re in now”.

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

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”

“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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