Quotes About Leadership

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.

Do not let anyone else run your business

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.

Pour your heart and soul into your business. People will notice.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

If you want to build a business, build the people.

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!

In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.

The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.

If your business is to grow and prosper, as a leader, you need to focus on people development.

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.