“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.”

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

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

“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.”

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

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

“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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“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.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

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

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

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

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

“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

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

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

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

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

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

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

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

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“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.”

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

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

“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

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

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

“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

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

“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”

“Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

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

“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the …
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“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

 “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

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

The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”

“Being good is good business.”

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

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

“A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If youre not passionate enough from the start, youll never stick …
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“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”

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

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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