Business Leaders Quotes:

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

- Ken Blanchard

topic: Inspirational, Successful, Keys, Top Management, Influencing People

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

- Bill Gates

topic: Inspirational, Success, Teacher, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

- Max De Pree

source: Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

topic: Leadership, Responsibility, Reality, Funny Leadership, Workforce

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

- Lori Greiner

source: FaceBook post by Lori Greiner from Jan 08, 2014

topic: Wine, Glasses, Guy, Drank, Wine Glass

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Top Management, True Leader

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

- Indra Nooyi

source: "How Pepsi’s Indra Nooyi Learned To Be A CEO". Interview with Gary Burnison, www.fastcompany.com. April 29, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Organization, Way, Business Leaders

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

- Ross Perot

topic: Leadership, Business, Snakes, Cute Funny, Business Leadership

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

- Sam Walton

source: "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Business, Work, Customer Experience, Inspirational Customer Service

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

- Sara Blakely

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting, Empowering Women, Powerful Women

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.

- Sam Walton

source: Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Educational, True Leader, Inspirational Self Esteem

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

- Mark Cuban

source: Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.81, Diversion Books

topic: Business, Educational, Competition, Young Entrepreneurs, Customer Experience

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.

- Zig Ziglar

source: "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

topic: Loyalty, Business, Educational, Customer Experience, Inspiring Business

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

- Melinda Gates

topic: Positive, Success, Inspiration, Women Leadership, Less Fortunate

My parents ingrained in me early on that the perfect score is always something to strive for. I want to win and I want to succeed no matter what.

- Andrea Jung

topic: Winning, Perfect, Parent, Business Leaders

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

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Business, Innovation And Leadership, Inspiration And Innovation

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

- Donald Trump

topic: Inspirational, Success, Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Starting Week

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

source: "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Young Entrepreneurs

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

- Tony Blair

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Art, True Leader, Funny Leadership

The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.

- Barbara Corcoran

topic: Inspiring, Sorry, Successful, End Times, Feeling Sorry

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Positive, Success, Business, Business Woman, Woman Leader

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Young Entrepreneurs, Make You Think Twice

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.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom, Top Management, Leaders Motivational

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

- Arianna Huffington

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Opposites, Powerful Women, Successful Women, Business Woman, Overcoming Failure

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Empowering Women, International Business

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

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

- Jeff Bezos

source: "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Customer Experience, Call Center

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

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Young Entrepreneurs, Makin Money

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Life, Business, War, Best Investment, Market Risk

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

- John F. Kennedy

source: John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, Inspirational Courage, Inspiring Presidential

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

topic: Leadership, Motivation, Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

- Bill Gates

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Motivation, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Success Failure

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

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Makin Money, Market Risk

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

- Jack Welch

source: "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Insperational, Top Management, Spiritual Vision

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

- Bill Gates

topic: Business Life, Innovation And Leadership, Inspiring Business, Inspiration To Others, Inspiring Leader

If we can learn to deal with our discomfort and just relax into it we'll have a better life.

- Mellody Hobson

topic: Relax, Better Life, Discomfort, Business Leaders

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

- Jack Dorsey

topic: Business, Numbers, Perfect, Challenges In Business, Business Leadership

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

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.

- Nolan Bushnell

source: "Mina Bekheet - Cofounder of Oxford Biotech". Enterprising Oxford interview, www.eship.ox.ac.uk.

topic: Ideas, People, Entrepreneur, Amazing People, Successful Leaders

The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Opportunity, Complaining, Customer Experience, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Service

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

- Brian Tracy

topic: Inspiration, Leader, Performances, Business Leaders