“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“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 …
Continue reading Theodore Roosevelt

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

“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 …
Continue reading Douglas MacArthur

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the …
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“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“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.”

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

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

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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

“True leadership lies in guiding others to success; in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”

“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 …
Continue reading Charles F. Kettering

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

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

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

 “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.”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

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

“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 …
Continue reading John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

“If you think you are leading, and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”

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

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”

“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.

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

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

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

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

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

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

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

“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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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“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”

“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

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

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

 “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”

“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 …
Continue reading Nelson Mandela

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

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

“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.”

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“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 …
Continue reading Peter Drucker

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

“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 …
Continue reading George Orwell

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

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

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

“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.”

“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

“Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

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

“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”

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

“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.”