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

“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

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

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

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

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

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

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

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

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

“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.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

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

“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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“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.”

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

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

“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.” 

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

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

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

“Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.”

“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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“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

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

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”

“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”

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

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

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.”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“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 no office hours for leaders.”

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

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid …
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“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

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

“There is no progress without change.”

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

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”

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

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

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”

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

  “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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“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”

“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.”

“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, …
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“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”

  “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

“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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“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

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

“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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“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.”

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

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

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

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”