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

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

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

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

“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”

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

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

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

“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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“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”

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

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

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

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

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

“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”

“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”

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

  “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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“Details create the big picture.”

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

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

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

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

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

  “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

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

“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.”

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”

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

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

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

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

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

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

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

“You’re smart, you’re a survivor; use your intelligence and instincts to get to a better position than the one you’re in now”.

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

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

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

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

“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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“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.”

“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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“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.”

 “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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