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

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

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

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

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

“There is no progress without change.”

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

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

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

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

 “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

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

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”

“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.”

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“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.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“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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“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

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

“What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

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

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

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

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

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

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

“Change before you have to.”

“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”

“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”

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

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

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

“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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If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”

“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”

“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.”

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And …
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“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

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

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

“Details create the big picture.”

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“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.” 

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

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

“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.”

“If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk; then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

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

“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.”

“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.”

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

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”