“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

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

“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

“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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“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

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

“Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything.  I myself …
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“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

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

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

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

“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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“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

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

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

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

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.”

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

“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.”

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

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

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

“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.”

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

“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”.

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

“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.”

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

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

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

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.”

“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.” 

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

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”

“Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”

“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”

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

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

“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.” 

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

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

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

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

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

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“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.”

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

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

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they …
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“The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”

“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.”

“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

“Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”

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

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

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

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

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

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.” 

“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”

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

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

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

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?”

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“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.”