“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.”
Dave Weinbaum
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”
Herbert Bayard Swope
“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”
Richard Branson
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
Josiah Charles Stamp
“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”
Anonymous
“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
Conrad Hilton
“There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.”
Sophie Kinsella
“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of Linkedin
“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
Zig Ziglar
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not …
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Jim Rohn
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”
Baltasar Gracián
Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
Guy Kawasaki
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Truth builds trust.”
Marilyn Suttle
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”
Lakshmi Mittal
“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”
Michael Leboeuf
“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”
Pierre Omidyar
“Knowledge is power is time is money.”
Robert Thier
“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”
Tony Robbins
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
Colin Powell
“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
Ray Kroc
“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”
Bill Bradley
“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”
Mike Tyson
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Winston S. Churchill
“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die”.
Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company
“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”
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 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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Bill Gates
“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”
Ryan Freitas
“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”
David Karp
“Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service.”
John Rampton
“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”
Stephen Covey
“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
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
John D. Rockefeller
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”
Socrates
“There is no progress without change.”
John Wooden
“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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Douglas MacArthur
“There are no office hours for leaders.”
Cardinal J. Gibbons
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston S. Churchill
“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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John Paul Dejoria
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
Herman Melville
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
Jim Rohn
“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”
Grace Murray Hopper
“Change before you have to.”
Jack Welsh
“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”
Warren Bennis
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
“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”
Lisa Stone, Co-founder and CEO of BlogHer
“To add value to others, one must first value others.”
John C. Maxwell
“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”
Unknown
“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”
Chris Grosser, Photographer
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.”
P. T. Barnum
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Anonymous
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
“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
“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”
Les Brown
“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”
Kevin Kruse
“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”
Richard Branson
“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
“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
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”
John Buchan
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
Vince Lombardi
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
Maya Angelou
“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
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
Stephen Covey
“No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the …
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Spencer Fry
“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
“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Who wishes to fight must first count the cost”.
Sun Tzu, Ancient Chinese Military Strategist, Writer, and Philosopher
“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”
Joel Spolsky, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
Bruce Lee
“Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”
Gary Ryan Blair
“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.
Latin Proverb
“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”
Michael Dell
“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”
Bryant H. Mcgill
“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
Napoleon Hill
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.”
Jason Calacanis
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.”
Peter Drucker
“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”
Sheryl Sandberg
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs
The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
Napoleon Hill
“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
John C. Maxwell
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
“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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Vince Lombardi
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
Jeff Bezos
“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”
Derren Brown
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.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.”
Jocko Willink
“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”