Business Leaders Quotes

Leaders are never measured by their success but rather by the success of those they've been entrusted to lead. Therefore, a leader can never be considered successful until those they lead are successful.

Emotions must not be part of the decision process: decisions must be clinical and well calculated.

Alex Dube

You are in control of your priorities – you can erase old priorities and define new priorities at will.

A small businesses ability to gain an edge for a profitable niche is not by just focusing on the dynamic market gap, but by identifying a market within the gap.

Saying, “I don’t have time for CRM.” is like saying, “I don’t have time to look at my GPS app because I am too busy trying to figure out the best way to get from here to there.

Because we are a globally connected village, we need to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.

Linda Fisher Thornton

In five minutes you should know if people have confirmed, calculated & considered your vision.

You are a manager nonetheless who you are. There is a business worth keeping and you are the manager of that business. Yes, the business of your life. There is a big asset worth managing. Yes, your choices. As a manager of your own life, your choices are your assets. They form the pivot for the doom or boom of the business of your life. Some will be great managers and others will collapse the business of their lives by their choices or stay in mediocrity with the business of their lives.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The power of a successful salesman is not putting his hand in the customer's pocket to pull his money out. but rather manipulate the customer's mind to let him put his hand and happily pull the money and give it to you

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

Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur

Research on the human brain has shown it is predisposed to think in the terms of a story.36 This predisposition is continuously reinforced and strengthened throughout the life of your brain. Imaging studies have shown only a small, quarter-sized region of your brain lights up when someone tells you a series of facts. However, when someone tells you a story laced with those facts, or those facts in action, your entire brain lights up. Not only can you program your mind with a story — you can program someone else’s mind.

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus

Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind

Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible.

The Highest Reward for men and women 's devotion and dedication to excellence is not what one gets from it but what one he or she becomes through it.

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

Idowu Koyenikan

Successful business is always almost dishonest

Bangambiki Habyarimana

A man who wants to imitate the life of a woman will invariably do some mischief

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Conquer your customer as you would a woman

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

A business plan is like a war plan, when you competitors know about it, it's no longer of any use

Bangambiki Habyarimana

When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators

Bangambiki Habyarimana

A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market.

If you keep trying to hit a four but you keep on getting only one run. Then chances are when you will hit a six you will get caught.

Investing is a business, investment is a project and investor is a promoter.

Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day.

It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it.

Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion.

Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership potential is in everyone; we all have it, but we all don't know it until we have a direct individual encounter with the Holy Spirit of God. The principal source of leadership influence is the Holy Spirit.

Israelmore Ayivor

A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the same potentials in the same people and influences them to optimize them under his God-lead inspirations.

Israelmore Ayivor

You are special individual. Never envy others.You never know what they go through.Seek and be inspired by the works of others. Learn their secrets for success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

With the world now a global village, your vision has to transcend different races and faces in different places around the world.

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

Once you believe that you can do something, there is not a single person in the universe who can convince you otherwise.

If you are doing something good, never do it free

Nelson Nshekanabo

The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar.

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.

Those leaders who fail, lack the capability to resonate their idea & thoughts

Let them ask who you are but do not let others dictate who you should be.

Money Can make things better but a perfect relationship makes your life complete.

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

To impart a moral responsibility to exercise fairness in leadership builds greater leaders of strong character.

When you do it, you are not another dreamer

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

Innovative ideas are the golden wealth of a growing business

A great sense of commitment builds a hardworking spirit.

When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.

Idowu Koyenikan

Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business:1. Be forward thinking 2. Be inventive, and daring3. Do the right thing4. Be honest and straight forward5. Be willing to change, to learn, to grow6. Work hard and be yourself7. Lead by example

Confidence believes you are able. Competence knows you are able.

Even during a mid-life crisis do not deviate from your goal. History remembers only those who succeed.

But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.The result was that you ended up with a command structure that was top-heavy with guys who looked good in uniform and talked right and did well enough not to embarrass themselves, while the really good ones quietly did all the serious work and bailed out their superiors and got blamed for errors they had advised against until they eventually got out.That was the military.

Orson Scott Card

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

When we are right, we earn. When we are wrong, we learn.

Invest like a bull, sit like a bear and watch like an eagle. (mantra for long term investing)

Investing is like Yoga. Body, mind and soul have to be aligned.

Chase the story behind the stock, not the money on the table. Money will make you rich, but the story will make you wealthy.

Don’t learn literature from a history teacher.