“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.”
Edward Rickenbacker
“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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Henry Ford
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston S. Churchill
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
Colin Powell
“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”
Robert Collier
“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
“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.”
Arianna Huffington
“Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”
Suze Orman
The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
Vidal Sassoon
“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
Ray Kroc
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston S. Churchill
“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”
Larry Page
“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”
Michael Dell
“Earn your leadership every day.”
Michael Jordan
“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”
Les Brown
“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”
Larry Ellison
“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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John Kenneth Galbraith
“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist and Philanthropist
“If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”
Elon Musk
“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”
Bill Bradley
“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
Tony Blair
“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.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
Zig Ziglar
“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”
Seth Godin
“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.”
Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy’s
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
John Wayne
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to …
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Vivek Wadhwa
“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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Jeff Bezos
“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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Woodrow Wilson
“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”
Peter Daisyme
“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”
Scott Belsky
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
Warren Buffett
“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”
John Zenger
“There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.”
Sophie Kinsella
“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
“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
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
“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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George Orwell
“Change before you have to.”
Jack Welsh
“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”
Jason Fried
“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”
George Washington
“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”
Tom Brokaw
The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
“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.”
Max De Pree
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
Bruce Lee
“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
“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
The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
“In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
John D. Rockefeller
I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?”
Jill Konrath
“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”
Lolly Daskal, Leadership Coach, Business Consultant and Author
“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
“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”
Henry Ford
“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
“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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Mark Parker
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
John C. Maxwell
“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”
Pete Hoekstra
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
Conrad Hilton
“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.”
Sheryl Sandberg
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Edith Wharton
“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.”
John C. Maxwell
“There is no progress without change.”
John Wooden
Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
Guy Kawasaki
“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.”
Rosalynn Carter
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
Maya Angelou
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“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”.
Amr Badran, Business Consultant, Blogger and Entrepreneur
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
William Arthur Ward
“In a world thats changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook
“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”
Warren Bennis
“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”
Charles F. Kettering
“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”
Oscar Wilde
“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
George S. Patton Jr.
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
“The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.”
Margaret Wheatley, Management Consultant and Writer
“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.”
Sheryl Sandberg, CEO of Facebook and Founder of LeanIn.org
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
Margaret Fuller
“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”
Solon
“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”
Ray Kroc
If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas Edison
“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.”
Peter Shankman
“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
Zig Ziglar
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”
Michael John Bobak
“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.”
Tim O’Reilly
“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”
Mike Tyson
Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh
“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”
Bill Phillips
“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
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
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
John F. Kennedy
“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”
Lakshmi Mittal
“Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive, determination, and more drive.”
Sophie Kinsella, Author
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
Warren Buffett
“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
Paul Rand
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”