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

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

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

“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit.”

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

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

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

“Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.”

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

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

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

“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

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

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

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”

“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”

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

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.”

“Change before you have to.”

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

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

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

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

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

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

“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.”

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

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

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

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

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

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

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

“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.”

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

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

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

“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.”

“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution …
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“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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“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

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

“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.

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

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

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

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

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

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

“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

“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.” 

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

“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

“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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“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

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

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

“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.” 

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an …
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“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

“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.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

“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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“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

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

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

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

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

 “Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

“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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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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.”

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

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”