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

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

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

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

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

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

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

“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”

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

“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.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

“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 task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

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

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

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

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

 “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.”

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”

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

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

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

“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.’”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Being good is good business.”

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

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

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

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

“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”

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

 “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”

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

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

“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.”

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

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

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

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

“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.”