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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. - Jack Welch

  
Management is the art of making problems so interesting that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. - Paul Hawken

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

One of the true tests of #leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. -A.Glasgow

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.- Steve Jobs

Effective leadership is putting 1st things 1st.  Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. Steven Covey

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world - Ralph Waldo Emerson

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. - Thomas Paine

Discipline is doing what you really do not want to do, so you can do what you really want to do.  - John C. Maxwell

Failure + failure + failure = success. You only fail when you quit. - Jack Hyles

Well done is better than well said.
 

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. - Henry Ford

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain

Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter. - Dan Reeves

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
 

If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse. - Henry Ford

Great acts are made up of small deeds.


The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.- Mark Twain

Never give an order that can't be obeyed. - General Douglas MacArthur
 
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
 

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. - Bruce Lee

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. -Walter Scott

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. -Arie du Geus

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification - Publilius Syrus

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -Elting E. Morison

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. - Stephen Covey

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.- Harold Geneen


The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. -Ben Herbster

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. - John Wooden

Complaining about a problem without proposing a solution is called whining.

Truly great leaders spend as much time collecting and acting upon feedback as they do providing it. -Alexander Lucia

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them. -Lakshmi Mittal

You can have anything in the world you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. -Anatole France

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. -David Ogilvy

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. -Tacitus


 Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
- Don Marquis

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

 Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.-Tom Peters

Your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. -James Casey

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

 Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
-Seth Godin

No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is. - Irvin Himmel 

To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.

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

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.


My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful - Blaine Lee

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning

Negativity breeds negativity. The wise focus on the positive in every person and every situation.
- Philip Arnold

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader. -Anthony J. D’Angelo

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, you need a team.

Never be afraid to try, remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. 
- Anonymous

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.