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

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

“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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“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.

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“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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“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

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

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

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

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

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

“Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”

“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

 “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.”

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

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

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“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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 “Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

“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.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Change before you have to.”

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”

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

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

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

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

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

“The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“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.”

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

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

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you’re in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.” 

“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”

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

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

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

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of …
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“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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“No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.”

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” 

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

“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.”

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

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

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