“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”

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

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

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

“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”

“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit.”

“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.”

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

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

“Some people dream of success; while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”

“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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“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

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

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

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

“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

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

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

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

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

“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

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

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

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

“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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Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”

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

“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

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

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

  “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never …
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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

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

“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

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

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

“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards 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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“In a world thats changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

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

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

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

“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 let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

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

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

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.”

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