“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

“Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

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

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

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

“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.”

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

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

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

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

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

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

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

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

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

“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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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And …
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“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

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

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

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

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

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

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

“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.”

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?”

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

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

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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“Change before you have to.”

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

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

“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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“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

 “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.” 

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

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

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

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

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

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

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

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

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

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.”

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”

“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”

“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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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“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” 

“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.”

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

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

“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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“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

“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.”

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.”

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” 

 “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.”