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

“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”

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

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

“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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“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

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

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

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

“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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“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”

“Being good is good business.”

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.”

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; …
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“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

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

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

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

“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.”

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

“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.”

 “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

“The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”

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

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

“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

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

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

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or …
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“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

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

  “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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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for 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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“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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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“Always deliver more than expected.”

“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of      a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of               a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

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

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

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

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

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

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