The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

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

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

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

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

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”

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

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

“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.”

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

 “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

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

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

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

“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”

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

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

“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution …
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“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.”

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

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

“No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.”

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

“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” 

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

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

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

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”

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

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

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

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

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

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

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

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

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

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”

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

“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.”

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

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

“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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“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or …
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“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

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

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

“If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.”

“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out …
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“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

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

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

“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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“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.” 

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

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

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

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

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