“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

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

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

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

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

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”

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

“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”

“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.”

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of …
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“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

“The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“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.”

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

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

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

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

 “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.”

“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

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

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

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

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

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

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

“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”

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

“The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.”

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

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

“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” 

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

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

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”

“Simplicity is a great way to build something that works well without costing too much.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

“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.”

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

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

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

“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”

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

“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.”

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

“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, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for 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.”

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

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

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

“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.’”

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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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“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

“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.”

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”