“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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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“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”

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

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

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

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

“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

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

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

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

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

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

“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 this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”

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

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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.”

“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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“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.”

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

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

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

“Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything.  I myself …
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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.”

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

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

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

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

“Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service.”

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

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

“The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter …
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“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

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

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

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”

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

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

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“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.”

  “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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“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

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

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.”

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

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

“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.” 

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

If The World Says “No”, You Say “Next”… Never Give Up

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

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

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

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

“Creativity without Strategy is called Art. Creativity with Strategy is called Advertising.”

“There is only one boss; The Customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning