“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

 “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Simplicity is a great way to build something that works well without costing too much.”

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” 

“Being good is good business.”

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

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

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

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

“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.

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

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

“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.” 

 “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” 

“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.”

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

“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution …
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“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

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

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within 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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“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, …
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“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”

“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

If The World Says “No”, You Say “Next”… Never Give Up

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

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

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

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

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

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

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

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

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

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

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

“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.’”

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

  “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

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

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

“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.”

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