“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

“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”.

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

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

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

“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.”

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

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

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

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

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

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

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

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

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

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

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

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

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result …
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 “Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

 “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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 unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

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

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

“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.”

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.”

“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.”

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

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.”

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

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

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

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

 “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of      a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards it”

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

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

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

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

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

“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”

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

“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.”