“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”

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

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

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

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

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

 “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

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

“Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people,” that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s …
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“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

“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 take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything.  I myself …
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“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Dont wish it were easier; wish you were better.”

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

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

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

“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the …
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“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

“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.” 

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

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

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”

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

“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”

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

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

“Being good is good business.”

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

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

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

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

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

  “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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“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.”

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

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

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”

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

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

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

“Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s …
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“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result …
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“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

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

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

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”

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

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

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

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

“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

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

 “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.”

“Some people dream of success; while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”

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

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

“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“There is only one boss; The Customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”

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

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

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

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

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

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

“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.” 

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

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

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

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