“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 

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

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

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.”

“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 supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“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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“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.”

 “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.”

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

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

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

“There is no progress without change.”

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

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

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

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”

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

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

“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”

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

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

“When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.”

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

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

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

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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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“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit.”

“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.’”

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

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

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

“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.

“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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“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”

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

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

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

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

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

“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”

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

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

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

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

“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

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

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

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?”

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

“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” 

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

“If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”

“Simplicity is a great way to build something that works well without costing too much.”