“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

“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.”

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

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

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

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

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

“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.” 

“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.”

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

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”

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

“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards it”

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

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

“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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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”

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

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

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

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

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

“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.”

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

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

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”

“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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“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.”

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

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Dont wish it were easier; wish you were better.”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

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

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

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

“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

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

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

“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”

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

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

“There is no progress without change.”

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

“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.”

“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 …
Continue reading Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

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

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

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

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

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

“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.”

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

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