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

“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

“Being good is good business.”

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

“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”

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

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

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

“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

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

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

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

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

“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

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

“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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“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

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

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

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

 “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.” 

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

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

“A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.”

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

“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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“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“When people talk, listen completely.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”

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.”

“All humans are entrepreneurs; not because they should start companies; but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“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.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”

“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”

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

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

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

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

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

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” 

“Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

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

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

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

“If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk; then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

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

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

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

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

“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’”

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

 “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.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

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

“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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“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.”

 “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”

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

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

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

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.”