Entrepreneurship Quotes

Building a business is compounding of another kind. Small daily decisions stack up over years.

These quotes cover risk, leadership, failure and the habits that separate the companies that last.

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• Where there is no vision, the people perish.

• The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

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

• The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances.

• Leaders have the right to expect that others will compassionately recognize them.

• Collective leadership effectiveness drives business performance.

• Be innovative and creative.

• Time is a concrete product.

• The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

• Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.

• Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.

• There is a ladder to Success! Choose to climb it.

• Build up your faith while starving the fears.

• You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.

• You don't need a million dollar to start a business. You just need a simple idea to make Billions.

• Those who do not appreciate the value of time are celebrity failures. Success is time management.

• Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.

• You will become as great as your dominant aspiration...if you cherish a vision in your heart, you will realize it.

• Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be.

• What lies ahead? Worrying about it or creating it. Both requires a choice, one opens the door.

• When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making.

• Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.

• A better model of leadership means more effective leadership and better business results.

• Leader of Character: someone who uses influence to achieve a moral or ethical goal.

• You need to choose your association according to your vision.

• Entrepreneur, make today count but don't let the day count you.

• Entrepreneur, stay hungry, stay humble and stay hopeful.

• Entrepreneur, make today count and but don't let the day count you.

• A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles.

• The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.

• Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity.

• If you think you're unable to be on the cover of Time magazine, make your business to be there.

• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

• He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

• There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

• A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.

• If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.

• An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

• Motivation doesn't work, Your decisions do!

• Strategize yearly, plan quarterly, examine monthly, reflect weekly, act daily, and live #intentionally.

• Selling is serving, helping others find solutions, impacting lives positively with passion and integrity.

• I've failed over and over but I get back up stronger, better, and bolder. It's the only way I know and want to live.

• The art the wealthy use in business is to jump.

• The more businesses you have, the less work you do.

• A business person is all about solving problems.

• To leverage means to create a win-win situation.

• There is no problem you can't take absolute advantage of.

• I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

• Leaders face battles. They don't run away from troubles.

• Leaders with high esteem are high performers.

• When the leader grows, the organization grows.

• Change plus innovation equals progress!

• There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or we fail to continue.

• Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.

• A wise man will make more opportunities then he finds.

• Behind every successful athlete there is a responsible coach.

• A leader is a person who knows how to act when other people don't.

• Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.

• Open mind Learning Knowledge Baseline for leadership.

• If you are born to lead, be a leader!

• A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.

• Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

• Great leadership produces great success. Weak leadership produces failure.

• Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

• A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

• One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

• The accumulation of non-obvious, ineffective, or misapplied actions leads to low productivity.

• If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

• Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

• The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

• Don't let your emotions get in the way of rational decision making.

• Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.

• Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

• Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.

• Remember that things are not always as they appear to be... Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.

• Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.

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

• Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

• Leadership is the capacity to turn vision into reality.

• Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

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

• Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leadersare made rather than born.

• If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

• It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

• Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

• Like most events that change the world, it didn't seem interest to anyone except the people willing to do the work.

• A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

• In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

• Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

• The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

• The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

• The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

• The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

• Anything a customer can do for themselves is where service stops and relevance begins.

• Manifesting your dreams into reality becomes easier when your passionate commitment engages your laser focus on success.

• Leadership amongst the crowd is often the one who has the least to gain and the most to offer......-bns.

• Success is the moment you realize that all you failed at created the masterpiece of your life.~.

• Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.

• A leader is a dealer in hope.

• Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

• It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

• Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly.

• Good communication may not make a risky deal safe, but poor communication may sell benefits of a good deal.

• Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

• Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

• Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.

• Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

• There is no "one" way to be a perfect leader, but there are a million ways to be a good one.

• The reputation of a great work ethic that took years to build can be forgotten with one act of misjudgment.

• Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

• Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

• A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

• Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

• To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running.

• Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.

• Building something that matters is a marathon, not a sprint.

• In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.

• Moments of complete apathy are the best for new creations.

• Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding.

• Branding is the art of differentiation.

• Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.

• Ideas are the currency of innovation.

• Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo.

• Don't treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.

• I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.

• I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

• Customers want to make informed decisions based on useful information, valuable engagements and brand affinity.

• Immerse yourself in the customer's world and get to know their struggles and triumphs inside out.

• Success is state of mind. If you want success start thinking of yourself as a success.

• When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation.

• Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

• The goal of terrorism is to create terror and fear. Fear undermines faith in the establishment.

• Seek opportunity, not security A boat in a harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

• Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

• Success in sales, and life, is a series of tiny victories.

• The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

• Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

• An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

• In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

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

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to lose it.

• Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

• Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press.

• In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

• Success is less about what you get at the end but more about who you become in the journey.

• In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that the rest is easy.

• People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands.

• Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings.

• Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions.

• Your brand story's "happily ever after" involves open wallets.

• Products shouldn't just work well, they must unfold well.

• The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

• The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

• Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan.

• Let's make a deal, if you don't blame me for your failures I won't take credit for your successes.

• I've never been part of an formation where the leader succeeded on their own merits apart from their Soldier's.

• You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward.

• Too many people are thinking of security rather than opportunity.

• It is better to apologise later than to ask for permission now. It is called self leadership.

• We weren't born to create excuses, we were born to create excellence.

• If you have a vision and there is no job title for it yet. That's a vision right there!

• Businesses need to be more alert. Sometimes the problem is not the customer service, it is the product.

• Rainmakers create growth through commitment.

• As long as we're breathing, we have a chance to start over and build a stable future.

• If you haven't thought about quitting even once when working on your business, that business is not your real passion.

• If you haven't though about quitting even once when working on your business, that business is not your real passion.

• I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

• I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.

• Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition.

• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

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

• 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.

• In the world of business, being slow is a losing move.

• A business that is not growing after all, is dying.

• Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the door.

• Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

• Success comes from people (leaders) who are motivated by the change, not who need to be motivated by the change.

• Teamwork is good netiquette. All good users can work together to accomplish goals. Network Etiquette.net.

• Although sometimes the road to success follows a path less-travelled, a path less-travelled often leads to nowhere.

• The road to success begins with knowing what you need to know and why.

• Success is not a finite resource; share it, wish it on others, and celebrate others.

• A mindset that understands order, is a mindset that can understand leadership.

• A great sense of commitment builds a hardworking spirit.

• Endurance precedes success.

• Leaders cannot build a successful nation once they are yoked to these two evils, ignarance and greed.

• Weak leadership will always hide behind ambiguity and rhetoric.

• Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.

• Live life like a Legend, and society will start acknowledging you as a great Entrepreneur!

• The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

• The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

• In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.

• Desperation is the best innovator.

• Instead of begging to be picked by others, you have the choice to pick yourself and build your brand.

• An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace.

• Don't just be everywhere, be everywhere that your clients are, where you matter most.

• I am not in it for the success, I am in it for the victory...nothing less.

• The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.

• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

• No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

• Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.

• Business opportunities are like buses.

• If you don't have a competitive advantage.

• Stop categorizing and labeling! This is your way to avoid the unknown but brings the risk to avoid the new!

• Do the things you like to be happier, stronger and more successful. Only so is hard work replaced by dedication.

• BE OPEN TO new thoughts, to new people, to new principles, to new ideas, to new experiences. "NEW" MAKES US GROW.

• Divorce is the start point for a brand new life. Don't lose the chance to redesign it upon your dreams!

• If we could eliminate the concept of town and return to live in small villages, all world problems were solved.

• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

• Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life.

• Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

• The business of America is business.

• The average person will take the excuses, but the leader will always take responsibilities.

• The biggest challenge in business isn't your competition, it's what goes on inside your own head.

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

• I am not a product of my circumstances I am a product of my decisions.

• We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

• Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life.

• The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

• Leaders can hold onto busyness like a weapon of protection.

• Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.

• One of the best ways to attract capital is to outperform the competition.

• Business is still more often about whom you know, not what you know.

• Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution.

• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

• Having a team deliver standards and performance is much easier when they want to be there and want to be led by you.

• Every day of your working life is part of an interview for a job you don't even know you're going for yet.

• Many people spend more time looking at their failures than focusing on their successes.

• Becoming a great leader doesn't mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.

• Great leaders inspire greatness in others.

• As I see it, every day you can do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

• This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

• When positioning a brand, aggressively avoid becoming a "me too" by assertively being a "who else?

• Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist.

• The road to success is full of pit stops, pitfalls, and self pity; my advice is simply don't stop!

• The successes and failures of yesterday are gone, today is a new day.

• In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.

• If leadership is the spinal cord of success then discipline is its lumbar vertebrae.

• If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

• Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

• I started the business with a simple question: How can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was: Sell computers directly to the end customer. Eliminate the reseller's markup and pass those savings on to the customer.

• Early is a priceless timepiece owned by the successful.

• The reward is in the middle of hard work for a reason.

• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

• As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

• Success is not certain until you are obsessed by your goal.

• If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

• There is no cure for ambition other than success.

• It takes more than one individual to make a team.

• Critics are loud, but success is louder.

• It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

• Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?

• As an entrepreneur, value creation will always be your first line of defense against business failure.

• Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

• I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

• One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

• Get big quietly, so you don't tip off potential competitors.

• Staying motivated in business is really less about what you hear and think, and more about what you do and achieve.

• Re Think culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.

• To create extraordinary results, you must first have or Re Think an extraordinary Mindset to start.

• Teams Triumph When Today's Tribe Leaders Transform Their Mindset.

• Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution.

• Most success oriented mindsets miss out on people becoming more valuable.

• I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.

• Social context and NOT individual abilities drives performance, success or failure of a team or a project.

• Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

• Knowledge-based innovation has the longest lead time of all innovations.

• You cannot predict the future, but you can create it.

• Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

• Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

• So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

• There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.

• People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

• Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

• Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

• The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

• Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

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

• Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

• To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.

• Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

• This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

• People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

• The companies that refused to make hard choices, or refused to admit that anything much was happening, fared badly. If they survive, it is only because their respective governments will not let them go under.

• The best way to predict your future is to create it.

• The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

• Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

• An entrepreneur is someone who empowers and pushes people to attain their highest capabilities.

• An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.

• Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things.

• How much you know it's depending upon your action not in your lip service.

• Prime vision of my life is to help others. And if I can't help them, atleast I do not try to disappoint them.

• Your actions prove you efficiency and your lip service proves your inability.

• Your actions prove your efficiency and your lip service proves your inability.

• Our intentions create our reality.

• There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; theres only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

• Our intention creates our reality.

• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

• I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

• I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

• Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

• A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

• Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

• Any change holds an opportunity.

• No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

• Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

• Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

• In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

• We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

• You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

• The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

• Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

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

• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

• I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, education and patience.

• You don't lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership.

• You can't do it better without teamwork.

• Of what need is teamwork without a common goal?

• Synergy without strategy results to waste of energy.

• With teamwork we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input.

• Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

• Business is win-win, everything else shades into crime.

• Remember, you will always fail in business if you don't try to open your own business.

• The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you.

• When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

• Leadership is service, not position.

• Leaders don't need a path. They make one.

• A good product is not the secret to success.

• Prior Planning Produces Positive Performance.

• A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

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

• Considered your brand a life experience.

• What I can't create, I do not understand.

• What I cannot create, I do not understand.

• The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

• The Shoes Should fit! you can't build a business that is not yours.

• A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

• The goal is to build a profitable business, not maintain an expensive hobby that will leave you in the poorhouse.

• I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

• Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

• Drive your business! Let not that drive thee.

• Desperation is not an evidence of hard work, it's a sign of lack of faith.

• There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.

• There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system..

• For a company's advertising strategy to work, it has to be handled not only corporately, but also individually.

• Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

• Transform challenge into choices, obstacles into opportunity, and tragedy into triumph.

• An entrepreneur is someone who can make enough money to pay for their mistakes.

• You can follow others into mediocrity, or you can create something that will be remembered.

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

• Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!

• Work as if there's no one to help you, and learn as if everybody is with you.

• Creativity doesn't wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.

• I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

• Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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

• If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

• I always have my own opinion before my boss says his.

• It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.

• Manager! Have brain - use it!

• Any idiot can point out a problem. So, bosses do.

• A code is like love, it has created with clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.

• Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

• Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

• The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.

• The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.

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

• Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

• There are no office hours for leaders.

• The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

• Excellent service is not what you believe it to be, it's what your customer perceives it to be. And tells others.

• When you employ HUMOR, you create a friendly, relaxed buying atmosphere.

• The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

• True success is overcoming the fear of being successful.

• The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

• When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless.

• There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

• The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

• The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

• The ironic thing is that marketers have responded to this problem with the single worst cure possible. To deal with the clutter and the diminished effectiveness of Interruption Marketing, they're interrupting us even more!

• In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

• Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

• Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

• If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

• Marketing used to be about advertising, and advertising is expensive. Today, marketing is about engaging with the tribe and delivering products and services with stories that spread.

• Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

• You need editors, not brand managers, who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.

• Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

• If I love you, what business is it of yours?

• Great talent finds happiness in execution.

• A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

• In real estate, it's location, location, location. In business, it's differentiate, differentiate, differentiate.

• If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.

• Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

• Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

• Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

• Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire.

• It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower.

• The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

• When something annoys you, it could be because you're living in the future... Live in the future and build what seems interesting.

• That's the thing about counter-intuitive ideas, they contradict your intuitions. So, they seem wrong.

• Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.

• Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

• Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.

• For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.

• If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority, you create leaders.

• Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.

• Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left!

• Entrepreneur starts with an exaggeration, converts to a dream and then ends it with a vision!

• Failure should be archived in head, not heart!

• Entrepreneurship is not a career choice, its a way of life!

• Love is the surprising emotion that company builders cannot ignore.

• Lovable products, services, and companies are disrupting entire industries. They are changing the world.

• In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served.

• Conquer your customer as you would a woman.

• Successful business is always almost dishonest.

• Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

• A business that is not in love with its customers, but only the money they bring, should not expect love back.

• It's not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us.

• Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW.

• Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.

• There is no elevator to success to have to take the stairs.

• Quality is the best business plan.

• Don't find customer for your products, find products for your customers.

• A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it.

• With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.

• I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people's business, and God's business.

• Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

• I want to reach the top with it all-business, family and faith!

• The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset.

• Show your vulnerability, but have faith. You will succeed. Growth is not glamorous.

• The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

• I didn't go to college, but if I did, I would've taken all my tests at a restaurant, 'cause 'The customer is always right.'

• The first lesson of branding: memorability. It's very difficult buying something you can't remember.

• Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

• Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura, " the Duke said. "I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.

• It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds-of any kind.

• CHOAM is business and business follows profits.

• Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

• Keys to success: Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.

• Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

• The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

• Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself and yearns for the impossible.

• An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.

• If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

• Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

• Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

• One who is hungry for growth, doesn't requires motivation and training.. He just needs an opportunity..

• Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty.

• Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

• Many business people end up being relationship rich, and referral poor.

• Let 'the cause' become the 'because' - the reason - for people to do business with and to refer business to you.

• Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

• Discover the great ideas that lie inside you by discovering the power of sleep.

• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

• An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

• No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

• The art of communication is the language of leadership.

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

• All businesses begin and end with their company culture.

• Treat your employees like you would want to be treated if you were an employee.

• The time to market yourself is all of the time.

• Find another solution. That's how you move toward success.

• If your plan is not working, pivot. If it is working, do more of it!

• The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

• We are continuously faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

• Where there is a risk, there is a wealth.

• Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product.

• Opportunity exist for those who can observe trends, for this world is a trending place.

• This world is a business venture and only those that mean business reap bountifully from it.

• I believe leaders should be questioning machine, rather than an answering machine.

• You are either supporting the vision or supporting division.

• There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

• If a leader wants his people to do something, he himself must firstly do it!

• Building and hanging on to an audience is the biggest role of social media.

• Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

• Step into the marketplace with some sizzle, spice, spunk and shazam!

• Step into the spotlight and rock the brand of you!

• Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

• Those leaders who fail, lack the capability to resonate their idea and thoughts.

• Behind every successful innovation, was a presentation in a closed room.

• There are no keys to success - only tools.

• Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

• Leaders rule hearts, not people.

• Perseverance guarantees success.

• Some leaders lead from the front.

• A clear mind achieves success.

• Work always makes a difference.

• I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

• I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!

• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

• Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

• It is the people who innovate that inspire, and innovation is not born of the status quo.

• Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work.

• Most companies are not respectful of each individual's time.

• The choices you make create your future.

• The future of work revolution begins one person at a time.

• You live, work and lead others in the most exciting time, ever! Are you strong enough?

• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

• 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 stick it out.

• Great things in business are never done by one person. They are done by a team of people.

• It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to, We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

• The easiest thing to sell is truth.

• The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.

• Your Core Values are the "glue" that holds your business together.

• It's when your plans look dead that God's resurrection power begins to operate in your life in greater measure.

• All the failures in my life freed me from all my fears so that I can succeed.

• If want to become a person with vision, get back and reconnect to your source.

• To have no vision of your own means living the vision of someone else.

• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

• The best way to kill competition is to partner it.

• Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

• Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

• Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

• Be a worthy worker and work will come.

• Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

• Business is boss, politics is servant.

• Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow.

• When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

• Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

• Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

• Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.

• The wisest course of action is to take your best shot with a prototype, immediately get it to market, and iterate quickly. If you wait for ideal circumstances in which you have all the information you need (which is impossible), the market will pass you by.

• A leader is heard, a great leader is listened too.

• By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.

• Do not judge my success by the destination I reached but the distance I traveled.

• Market rewards you as per your perception.

• In markets, stupid action does not have equal but severe opposite reaction.

• Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list - a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.

• If today your company doesn't know what its ONE Thing is, then the company's ONE Thing is to find out.

• A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.

• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each.

• With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

• Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.

• Your Twitter Profile is your business card.

• I've never been motivated by money - it doesn't drive Me.

• Hard work works harder than luck!

• Success will teach you who your real friends are.

• When success is your only option, positivity has to be your only choice.

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

• The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

• The only thing that will make you successful is the believe you have in yourself.

• An entrepreneur is one who turns a business opportunity into a successful achievement.

• Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.

• Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.

• A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

• Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

• The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.

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

• Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

• A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

• When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

• The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

• To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

• For some, I realize, business is the all-out pursuit of profits, period, full stop, but for us business was no more about making money than being human is about making blood.

• In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.

• You have to work on the business first before it works for you.

• Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want.

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

• Remove this quote from your collection"Humans are born to build something outrageous.

• Humans are born to build something outrageous.

• I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.

• With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world.

• With realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world.

• Don't be afraid of what life has to offer you. If you believe that life is worth living, your belief will help create the fact.

• If you don't appreciate your customers, someone else will.

• Leaders don't force people to follow, they invite them on a journey.

• Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper.

• To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

• The creative adult is the child who survived.

• It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start - starting a novel, starting a business... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.

• Convenience will put you out of business!

• You have to actively listen to your clients and provide the service they're looking for!

• Own your growth and your schedule!

• What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?

• Marketers are focused and sales people are scattered!

• You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

• Growth and change are never easy...If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

• The secret to succeeding in business, is in the first two letters of business... BU.

• Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?

• When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.

• Everyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.

• Entrepreneurs don't ask for permission. They act per a mission.

• Build a valuable brand by branding what is valuable about you.

• For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

• My best ideas come in the shower, where I'm showered with water, but also ideas.

• Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.

• You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

• Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

• One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

• Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

• The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we've created to get there.

• The highest goal of a leader is to help others fulfill their purposes in life.

• You are never too old or too young to be a leader.

• You are a true leader if you help others to grow as leaders.

• There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

• The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

• 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 listened to their opinions, stated his own, and supported them with reasons; and from his being constantly occupied with such meditations, it resulted, that when in command no complication could ever present itself with which he was not prepared to deal.

• I WILL reach success because i will not accept anything less.

• You would be surprised at how many corporations "none of your business" applies to!

• To take risk and fail is not a failure. Real failure is to fear taking any risk.

• 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 from behind.

• The Disciplined Leader is someone who focuses on the 20 percent of activities that drive 80 percent of results.

• Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.

• The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

• Money might be a reward (by-product) but should not always be the only goal of your efforts and enterprise.

• Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail.

• Plan for the sustainability of your success so that you do not drift back to failure and mediocrity.

• Deliberately plan to be exciting and to be excited.

• A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.

• Creativity takes courage.

• How to prepare someone for leadership: I do it. I do it and you watch. You do it and I watch. You do it. You do it and someone else watches.

• Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

• A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

• Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

• Leadership isn't about winning. It's about bringing people with you to the finish line.

• While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

• Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

• Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

• When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.

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

• CRM is rather boring in itself. It's the fortunes you can build using CRM that makes it so interesting.

• The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

• All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

• A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

• Strategy is not really a solo sport - even if you're the CEO.

• Strategy is about shaping the future.

• Being an entrepreneur cannot be defined by your successes until it has been built by your failures.

• Success is a matter of choice, not chance ~ Deepak Mehra.

• What if business was the adventure of living?

• What would you choose if you knew you couldn't fail?

• All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

• Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

• As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.

• Many in business feel they have to live up to a machismo archetype of the big-swinging-dick business leader.

• Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.

• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creative.

• When your hobby becomes your work, life automatically transforms into a never ending holiday.

• Raise, Awake and take stand. Draw the path for others. Be a Leader.

• Leaders should never look down on the people who put them into power because every leadership requires followers.

• Great leaders do not fear challenges, because challenges don't break leaders but sharpens them.

• When you strive for excellence in leadership, then you will excel as a leader.

• It is so much easier to honour the leaders who are honourable.

• Social Media Strategy isn't rocket science...but it might as well be if you don't know what you're doing.

• A real job can kill a real dream, chase your real dreams.

• A leader without a team, is a car without steering wheel.

• No one can make you successful, the will to succeed comes from within.

• Instead of selling to your customers, help them buy.

• No business can be a great success without a great purpose.

• A leader is a lamp not just a sign board.

• Be the leader, not the boss.

• I am not a leader but a pathfinder and a motivator.

• If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.

• The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.

• What is the true cost of a purchasing decision that goes wrong?

• There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

• You've got to be driven to become successful.

• I could go and buy one of the islands in the Bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company.

• Failure is an option here. if things are not failing, you are not innovating.

• Good ideas are always crazy until they're not.

• Great companies are built on great products.

• Delegation of kindness is an epidemic of success.

• Laziness is when you accede to the misconception that work is unnecessary.

• I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

• In hypercompetitive world, the only way to make an impression on your customer is to break through the noise.

• Our industry does not respect tradition. What it respects is innovation.

• I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

• Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places.

• Believe in that One Thing That Sets You Apart: your skill, your idea or just you, yourself! And, Never Stop Believing.

• You are born to build the society, not to follow it.

• A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.

• Stop grovelling and start working.

• If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea.

• Stop groveling, stop whining and start working!

• Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action andinaction, work and rest.

• Work and Life are not separate spheres. They are integratedmoments in life that happen throughout the day.

• A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

• A problem is nothing more than a solution outstanding.

• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

• You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

• Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

• If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

• Profound ideas are always obvious once they are understood.

• Challenges lead to Growth, Grow matures ones daily living, Living a good life expedites.... Wisdom.

• Marketing without sales is dead.

• Build a brand or a brand will build you.

• Truth is the greatest marketing campaign.

• Success is a process, not an event.

• The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

• Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.

• Creative solutions come at drastic times, if you open your mind to the possibilities. Free yourself to take a chance!

• When you get clear on your own boundaries, you will find it easy to decide what you're willing to accept in your career.

• Opportunities rarely give second chances.

• What makes a person unique is their vision, their belief, their passion, and their flat out unwillingness to give up.

• When strategy, culture, and brand harmonize, they amplify one another and resonate loud and clear.

• To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

• What separates those who build exceptional lives from others, is the way they use their time.

• Change is automatic, but Growth is intentional.

• Hard work is vital to success. As long as it's in the right direction!

• Passion is the 'not-so-secret' ingredient to success. Passion drives hard work, persistence and creativity.

• Failure is not an option. Keep going!

• The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

• Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.

• All selling should spring from service.

• Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation.

• Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score.

• No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.

• First step to success is to drop what we are not and accept who we are. Always be yourself.

• Knowing the man responsible for your success is in the mirror is a high that you can never buy.

• FOCUS = Follow On Course Until Successful.

• You have a life make a success of it.

• Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.

• Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

• 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.

• Commitment precedes success. What you are committed to doing you will be successful at doing.

• Don't allow your thoughts of frustration allow you to make decisions out of desperation.

• Focus your thoughts today on HOW 'You can!' instead of accepting that 'You can't.' Amazing ideas will come your way.

• Realize that now, in this moment of time you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what's real.

• I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that!

• To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.

• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

• Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

• Perhaps the most important factor of leadership is simply taking advantage of the chance to lead.

• Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

• Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

• When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.

• Stop complaining. Start creating.

• A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

• If leadership is the way forward, vision is its walking stick.

• The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.

• Success is a place in time, Don't be late.

• Your business values can make you soar above the competition.

• Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.

• A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

• Branding is about everything.

• Leaders don't create followers. They create more leaders.

• Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

• The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

• Working conditions at the computer and long seated sessions can lead to weakness and pronounced posture problems.

• The way to success is long.. But beautiful at the same time.

• I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

• Take Action: Success is not guaranteed but inaction will guaranty failure.

• True success is achieved by stretching oneself, learning to feel comfortable being uncomfortable.

• Motivating others leads to success whereas inspiring others leads to greatness.

• Success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice.

• A positive mindset alone in the absence of hard work will get you nowhere.

• The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

• Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

• Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

• It's time to calculate your risks make amends to reduce errors and increase your successes.

• I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.

• Building a castle is difficult. Defending and maintaining it is harder still.

• If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.

• Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

• Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

• Adversity isn't set against you to fail; adversity is a way to build your character so that you can succeed over and over again through perseverance.

• Passion creates the desire for more and action fuelled by passion creates a future.

• You can't create in a vacuum. Life gives you the material and dreams can propel new beginnings.

• When anger use your energy to do something productive.

• You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this, nothing works unless you do.

• Success means leaving everything behind and standing persistently towards our aims with great determination.

• Efforts + Proper Timing = Success.

• I am neither the mind not the thought, I am its Creator.

• Knowledge alone is not enough, but with hard work it's worth progression.

• I believe a leader is inspired by his/her team to lead them.

• Being a solution and not a problem proves progression.

• Great leaders are the first to say, "I was wrong. Let's make a change.

• People will follow someone as a leader, who has vision and purpose; often that leader doesn't wear a title.

• A leader must know, must know that he knows and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows.

• Success is the result of actions. Stop wishing and start doing.

• Even if you don't have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt.

• Put time and effort to promote your personal brand.

• When nothing works, persistence will.

• Accept the fact that you are fully responsible for your career.

• Understand that success is not an accident, but a planned event.

• Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea!

• When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference.

• If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.

• An entrepreneur is born, when a person has more reasons to drive his dreams against his excuses.

• Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.

• Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you.

• It's never been easier to start a company. It's never been harder to build one.

• Leadership needs continuous learning from experience. Every time you learn something new, you re-wire your brain.

• You can't move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.

• 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.

• You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.

• An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.

• All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible.

• As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.

• Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

• The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

• A damaging email forwarded outside the organization is indicative of problems within the organization.

• Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

• I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

• I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

• Part of leadership is preparing those who follow to someday go on ahead without you.

• Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

• Whatever good things we build end up building us.

• You must learn how to handle difficulty; it always comes after opportunity.

• Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

• Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader's life.

• A leaders gentle reaction and sound instruction are their greatest weapons.

• Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions!

• Coachable leaders are ready and willing to make the needed changes and adjustments in their lives.

• Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to..

• Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.

• Happiness is not a goal, but a by-product.

• Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

• We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

• 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 do it.

• Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

• To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

• We demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

• If you're not called crazy when you launch something new, it means you're not thinking BIG enough.

• It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

• An innovative idea is special because only a certain few get to have it.

• When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last.

• An "eye" on the vision is more important than an "I" on the vision.

• This is what entrepreneurship is all about. You start off operating from a garage. And, end up, operating from a car.

• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

• Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore.

• If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

• Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

• Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure.

• The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

• Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

• Leadership is the ability to help people and organizations surpass themselves.

• Leadership always benefits the greater good.

• The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?

• Good leaders make heroes of others.

• Leadership is about movement and growth.

• In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

• Women can enter (...) negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position.

• One of the main secrets of success is the ability to foresee the situation a few steps forward.

• Great leaders are most often God's spokesmen.

• If you run a business, you know that every moment 365*24*7 people want to F*** with your business.

• An idea that does not take some risks, is probably an idea not worth taking.

• Vision is oxygen for companies.

• When leaders reframe customers into guests, and results into experiences, profits escalate.

• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

• Build a dream and the dream will build you.

• Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does..

• One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure.

• To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.

• People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

• Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand.

• Hire character. Train skill.

• Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far.

• Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

• People deserve their leaders.

• A business is like an automobile. Its people its wheels, their passion its fuel.

• An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

• The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.

• Passion + Vision +Skill + Mentoring = Success.

• Don't ask creator to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.

• TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be.

• Don't be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things and only those who try create History.

• Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

• Don't be afraid if your idea is crazy, because good things come from crazy ideas. (p. 96).

• A plan that is not written is just an idea.

• Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.

• 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 have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

• A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.

• Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.

• Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.

• Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they're crazy.

• Reading is one of the most common habit among the most successful people.

• Leaders are usually a reflection of the people they lead. How can a leader be moral if his people are immoral?

• Let's get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.

• Your company really has to work for you before you'll really work for your company.

• The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

• The heart of a company's performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.

• True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.

• Fail often and fail cheap.

• People who succeed in business aren't afraid to hear feedback from their customers - they actually thrive from it.

• As a leader, your main responsibility is to remove any barriers that stand in the way.

• Become a maniac on a mission: How to succeed in any venture or business.

• You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.

• The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

• Success is a journey. The best form of transport is Happiness.

• Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.

• Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

• Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

• The Best Marketing Is Education!

• Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

• In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.

• I want this team to win; I'm obsessed with winning, with discipline, with achieving. That's what this country's all about.

• Play every game as if you job depends on it. It just might.

• There are no perfect decisions, only excellent applications.

• Selflessness is the highest goal of good leaders.

• What trumps the 'How' of Leadership is the 'Why.

• Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

• Leadership is a skill learned through many venues.

• Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people.

• Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.

• Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.

• If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.

• Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don't tell.

• The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

• Multitasking is actually a hindrance to productivity. Focus on one thing and get it done.

• Great leaders are inspired by a challenge, a need, a problem, an issue that needs to be corrected.

• For every dilemma, find at least three or four possible solutions. The creative process leads to better results.

• When you're busy, avoid taking the quickest action. Instead make the extra effort to truly serve the customer.

• Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work.

• Achieving your goal is great Exceeding your goal is exceptional Exceeding your goal and teaching others is Leadership.

• We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

• While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

• If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% by day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.

• If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.

• I am sorry, I was wrong and it's my fault, these are words only accustomed to humble leadership.

• A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to its conclusion.

• Leadership: Converting dreams into goals and goals into success.

• Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them.

• There is no " i " in team. But there are two in motivation.

• Success may require a lot of days. But progress only requires one.

• Where can you find opportunities? Dissect your excuses and you will find opportunities in abundance.

• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

• It takes healthy, resilient leaders and employees to achieve great results.

• Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

• If you take one typewriter and build 100, you've made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress.

• No company has a culture, every company is a culture.

• 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.

• I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

• The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

• True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

• Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.

• They work in business too.

• A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self- confidence.

• Leaders are more concerned with winning than with not losing. They are more concerned with what's right than with who's right.

• Time management is a vehicle to take you from wherever you are to wherever you want to go.

• A single person who lacks commitment can be a major source of problems in your organization.

• Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

• The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.

• Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

• Get out of failure-o-phobia to enjoy success-o-mania.

• Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

• Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

• Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.

• Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

• My son is now an 'entrepreneur'. That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

• Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today - all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better to be alone that unwelcome. I had to have company - I was made for it, I think - so I made friends with the animals.

• During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

• Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

• Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

• The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.

• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

• Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

• The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

• A leader is best When people barely know he exists Of a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, "We did this ourselves.

• As for the best leaders the people do not notice their existence. The next best the people honour and praise. The next the people fear and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done the people say 'we did it ourselves!'

• In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

• It is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.

• The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

• Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

• When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.

• First lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured.

• Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.

• The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

• Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

• If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.

• The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

• Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

• The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

• Without the right succession planning put to play in human resources, we build for the future without a future.

• Managers are people who know what they want. Leaders are people who get what they want.

• Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.

• Even if you have a 9 to 6 job, 7 to 2 is still enough time to do some serious damage, stop watching lost.

• Being authentic, and being perceived as such by your audience, relies on your ability to ensure that every decision you make when it comes to your business is rooted in being true to yourself.

• Social Media= Business. Period.

• How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

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

• Competition is simply an unestablished paternship.

• Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

• Dreams are powerful reflections of your actual growth potential.

• 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.

• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

• It takes humility to realize that we don't know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing. If we don't, we can be sure some startup will be there to take our place.

• You can't be a good manager if you are doing everything yourself.

• Cream always rises to the top...so do good leaders".

• Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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

• Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.

• To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

• Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

• Either be a good parent to your career or just give your dream up for adoption.

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

• Every idea you present must be something you could get across easily at a cocktail party with strangers.

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

• But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

• Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company's mission.

• The things we fear most in organizations-fluctuations, distubances, imbalances-are the primary sources of creativity.

• If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

• I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

• Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

• The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

• User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.

• Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.

• The fate of your company is in the hands of your people. Train them well.

• Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

• Education is the mother of leadership.

• When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

• 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 hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

• There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team.

• A leader who is through learning is through.

• The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

• Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

• Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.

• Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there.

• Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.

• I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

• If you criticize others' ideas, they will almost never use yours no matter how good they are.

• All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

• He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.

• It takes just a step to meet a potential customer!

• No great leader can be made by image-builders.

• For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a strategem.

• Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

• If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

• All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

• The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

• If you do not believe in your product or service enough to offer it to your own family and friends, then you should question the value of what you are selling.

• 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.

• The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.

• Don't try to follow trends. Create them.

• Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas.

• That is why enemies can be great motivators. They serve as fuel for your fire.

• 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.

• The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.