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

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

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

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

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

“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.” 

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

“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.”

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

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

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

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

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an …
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If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”

“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.”

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

 “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.”

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

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

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

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

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”

“Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.”

“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”

“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.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

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

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

“The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your …
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“No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.”

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

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?”

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

“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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“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.”

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

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

“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.”

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from …
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“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.” 

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

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

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

“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”

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

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

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.’”

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

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

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.”

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

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