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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

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

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”

“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.”

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

  “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

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

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

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

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

“Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.”

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

“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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“The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter …
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“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

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

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

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

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

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

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

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

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

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

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

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

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

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

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

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

“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

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

“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.” 

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

“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 …
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“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

“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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“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” 

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

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

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

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

“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”

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

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

“Some people dream of success; while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

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

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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“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”

“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.”

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

“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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“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.”

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

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If youre not passionate enough from the start, youll never stick …
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“If you’re not sure where you are going, you’re liable to end up someplace else.”

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

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

 “An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

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