The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”
Ryan Freitas
“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the …
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Tony Robbins
“Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”
Tom Peters
“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”
Henry Ford
“Creativity without Strategy is called Art. Creativity with Strategy is called Advertising.”
Jeff I. Richards
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
John F. Kennedy
“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”
Bob Parsons
“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’”
Tom Preston
“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.”
Bill Owens
“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”
Henry W. Longfellow
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit.”
Conrad Hilton, Hotelier and Founder of Hilton Hotels
“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”
Elon Musk
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
Ralph Nader
“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”
Oprah Winfrey
“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”
Jason Fried
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States
“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”
Bill Gates
“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison, Inventor and Co-Founder of General Electric
“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”
Henry Ford
It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
Adlai E. Stevenson II
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”
Michael John Bobak
“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”
Michael Dell
“Change before you have to.”
Jack Welsh
“If you think you are leading, and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”
Benjamin Hooks
“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”
Larry Page
“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”
Diogenes of Sinope
“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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Fabrizio Moreira
“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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Peter Drucker
“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.”
Steve Jobs
Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”
Lisa Stone
The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”
Rob Kalin
“Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”
Sallie Krawcheck
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley, Newscaster for NBC and ABC
“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.”
Sam Walton
“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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Nelson Mandela
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison
“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”
Henry Ford
“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”
Abraham Lincoln
“There is no progress without change.”
John Wooden
“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”
Robert Noyce
“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.”
Margaret Wheatley
“Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive, determination, and more drive.”
Sophie Kinsella, Author
Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”
Michael Arrington
“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”
Chris Dixon
“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”
David Ogilvy
“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
Ray Kroc
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
Warren Bennis
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley
“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Edith Wharton
“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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Thomas Edison
“Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.”
Max De Pree
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
Margaret Fuller
“Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.”
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas Edison
“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
Nikos Kazantzakis
“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.”
Steven J. Stowell
“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
Peter Drucker
“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”
Bill Bradley
“There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.”
Sophie Kinsella
“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”
Seth Godin
“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
George S. Patton Jr., former US Army General during World War II
“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”
Unknown
“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”
Winston S. Churchill
“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.”
Michael Eisner
“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”
Brian Tracy
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”
Max De Pree
“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die”.
Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company
“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”
Jim Rohn
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”
Zig Ziglar
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States
“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”
Tom Brokaw
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Anonymous
“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”
Fred Wilson
“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”
Lisa Stone, Co-founder and CEO of BlogHer
“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”
Josh James
“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”
Ray Kroc
“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”
Brian Tracy
“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”
Bill Phillips
“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.
Ronald Reagan
“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”
Joel Barker
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
John C. Maxwell
“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.”
Steve Jobs
“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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Steve Jobs
“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”
Peter Daisyme
“Leadership is an action, not a position.”
Donald Mcgannon, former American Broadcasting Industry Executive
“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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James Rouse
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”
Aristotle Onassis
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
Ovid
“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”
Oscar De La Hoya
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
Henry Ford
“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”