“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

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

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

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

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The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”

“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.

“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.”

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

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

“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”

“Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.”

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

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

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

“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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“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

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

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”

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

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

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

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

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

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

If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.”

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

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”

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

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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”

“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.”

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and youre in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.” 

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting …
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The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; …
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“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”

“You manage things; you lead people.”

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

“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”

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

“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

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

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

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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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

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

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

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

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

“Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

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

“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 history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”

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

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

“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”

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

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

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” 

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

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

“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.”

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

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.”

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

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

“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”

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

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”

“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.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“Details create the big picture.”

“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from …
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“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”