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

“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”

“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.” 

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

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

“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from …
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“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

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

 “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.”

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

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”

“Creativity without Strategy is called Art. Creativity with Strategy is called Advertising.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.” 

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

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

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

“I never dreamed about success, I worked 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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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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“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid …
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“Change before you have to.”

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

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

  “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

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

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

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: It was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not …
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“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

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

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

“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”

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

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

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

“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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“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an …
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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to …
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“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”

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

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

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

“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“There is no progress without change.”

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

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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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“Business is all about the customer; what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and …
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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

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

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

“Being good is good business.”

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If youre not passionate enough from the start, youll never stick …
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“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”

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