This document contains quotes from various leaders on topics related to business, leadership, learning from mistakes and customers. Theodore Roosevelt discusses picking good team members and letting them work. Peter Drucker differentiates management from leadership. Tom Kelley advocates failing often to succeed sooner. Dave Thomas lists the three key things needed to start a business. Bill Gates notes unhappy customers are a great learning source.

2. “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.”
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President

3. “Management is doing things
right; leadership is doing the
right things”
- Peter F Drucker, Management
Consultant, Educator, and Author

4. “Fail often so you can succeed
sooner.”
- Tom Kelley, Ideo partner

5. “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.”
- Dave Thomas, Founder of
Wendy’s

6. “Your most unhappy customers
are your greatest source of
learning.”
- Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder

7. “Leadership and learning are
indispensable to each other.”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th
US President

8. “Successful leaders see the
opportunities in every difficulty
rather than the difficulty in
every opportunity.”
- Reed Markham

9. “Always treat your
employees exactly as you
want them to treat your best
customers.”
– Stephen R. Covey, Author

10. “The key to successful
leadership is influence, not
authority.”
- Kenneth H. Blanchard, author
& management expert

11. “A man’s errors are his portal of
discovery”
- James Joyce, Novelist and Poet

12. “Successful people ask better
questions, and as a result, they
get better answers.”
- Tony Robbins, Author

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