“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”

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

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

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

“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.”

“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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“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

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

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

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

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

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

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

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

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

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

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

“A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.”

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

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

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

“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

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

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

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

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

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

“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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“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Change before you have to.”

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

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

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

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

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

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

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”

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

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

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

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

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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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The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

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

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

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

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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