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Some of the very best business executives, startup founders, venture capitalists, management thought leaders, and bestselling authors regularly share words of wisdom on Twitter. Here are a 100 inspirational business leadership quotes for you to enjoy and share on Twitter:

Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important. — @SteveCase [tweet this]
Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear. — @johnmaeda [tweet this]
My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing. — @pmarca [tweet this]
It's about getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment & helping to find a way to innovate. — @marissamayer [tweet this]
All success is a matter of implementation. All implementation is a matter of politics. — @tom_peters [tweet this]
If there’s a 90% chance of failure, there’s a 10% chance of changing the world. — @vkhosla [tweet this]
When you have self-esteem, you give yourself the audacity to dream big. — @garyvee [tweet this]
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. — @sherylsandberg [tweet this]
Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect. — @jack [tweet this]
The secret to thriving in the future is 'learning to learn'. — @dorieclark [tweet this]
No business plan survives first contact with a customer. — @sgblank [tweet this]
If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's too late. — @levie [tweet this]
What makes the meaning of life is people; try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. — @reidhoffman [tweet this]
You’re more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters. — @AmyJoMartin [tweet this]
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change. — @tom_peters [tweet this]
The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy. — Jeff Bezos [tweet this]
Entrepreneurs are alwasy super optimistic. If they weren't they wouldn't be entrepreneurs. — @HeidiRoizen [tweet this]
Succinct doesn't mean short. It means a high ratio of ideas to words. — @paulg [tweet this]
Opportunity-based narratives + creation spaces based on mutual trust = sustainable movements. — @jhagel [tweet this]
Definition of success: 1 well-being 2 wisdom 3 capacity to celebrate life 4 our ability to give back — @ariannahuff [tweet this]
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. — @warrenbuffett [tweet this]
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. — @BillGates [tweet this]
People who are just passionate about money do not generally make the best entrepreneurs. — @msuster [tweet this]
Never try to be a thought leader. There's no value in that. Instead, try to add value. — @chrisbrogan [tweet this]
Are the jobs, pains and gains of your customers really there? Ask you customers and iterate appropriately. — @AlexOsterwalder [tweet this]
Management is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well. — @claychristensen [tweet this]
To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want. — @richardbranson [tweet this]
Get specific sooner: a specific detail proves a general conclusion, not the reverse, yet we often give generalizations. — @KareAnderson [tweet this]
To build a great business, you have to shoot to be 10 times better than your competition. — @bill_gross [tweet this]
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing a leader can do. — @jack_welch [tweet this]
You can't out-spend the giants, but you can out-think, out-teach, and out-help them. — @bhalligan [tweet this]
Part of company culture is path-dependent—it's the lessons you learn along the way. — Jeff Bezos [tweet this]
Great tech founder/CEOs tend to focus on What & Who: What product to build, and Who to hire/train/retain/motivate to build it. — @pmarca [tweet this]
It takes as much mental energy to dream small as to dream big, so you might as well dream big. — @RosabethKanter [tweet this]
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. — @johnmaeda [tweet this]
The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges. — @SteveCase [tweet this]
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to. — @richardbranson [tweet this]
Do what is necessary to be resilient. You will get knocked down. What matters is that you get back up. — @HillaryClinton [tweet this]
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. — @oprah [tweet this]
The creative leader always questions authority. Even when it is her/his own. — @johnmaeda [tweet this]
Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible. — @richardbranson [tweet this]
Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at. —@levie [tweet this]
Entrepreneurship is hard. You have to be at peace with failure and keep moving. — @HeidiRoizen [tweet this]
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, making sure that impact lasts in your absence. — @sherylsandberg [tweet this]
Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out. — @GuyKawasaki [tweet this]
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. — @jack_welch [tweet this]
Success is not a straight line, it’s much more of a dance and being open to possibilities. — @ariannahuff [tweet this]
Successful companies proactively re-invent themselves. — @AlexOsterwalder [tweet this]
What good is having a belly if there's no fire in it. Wake up, drink your passion, light a match, and get to work. —@simonsinek [tweet this]
An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true. — @vkhosla [tweet this]
Employees who strengths were called on every day are 50% more likely to be on high-retention teams. —@mwbuckingham [tweet this]
Don't let anything (or anyone) rent space in your mind for free. It's valuable real estate. — @AmyJoMartin [tweet this]
Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope. — @_robin_sharma [tweet this]
When you are competing with others on their terms, you're likely to lose. — @dorieclark [tweet this]
Communication is the foundation of collaborative work, which is how all important problems gets solved. People working together. — @pmarca [tweet this]
If you’re in business, first and foremost, you have to be nice. Show your customers that you care. — @garyvee [tweet this]
You only and always have three choices in any situation: change, accept or leave. — @KareAnderson [tweet this]
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. — @susancain [tweet this]
A leader isn’t good because they’re right; they’re good because they’re willing to learn and to trust. — @StanMcChrystal [tweet this]
Don’t be a jerk. Don’t take anyone for granted. Enjoy the moment. Be honest, always. Be humble. Be kind. Respect people’s wishes. — @jack [tweet this]
Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter. — @marissamayer [tweet this]
If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important. — @simonsinek [tweet this]
Awesome people don't like average goals. — @dharmesh [tweet this]
Most harmful form of exercise: jumping to conclusions. — @RosabethKanter [tweet this]
At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build. — @SteveCase [tweet this]
People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done. — @johnmaeda [tweet this]
Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. — @HillaryClinton [tweet this]
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. — @reidhoffman [tweet this]
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question the answer has nowhere to go. — @claychristensen [tweet this]
Honesty is a very expensive gift, don't expect it from cheap people. — @WarrenBuffett [tweet this]
Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it. — @amyjccuddy [tweet this]
Everyone has an idea. But it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea. — @jack [tweet this]
You don’t just drift into better behavior. You have to be intentional and deliberate. — @nilofer [tweet this]
A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader. — @fredwilson [tweet this]
What ideas are widely dismissed today due to having been tried and failed? Answer is the codex to the next 20 years. — @pmarca [tweet this]
People who do extraordinary things are driven by the problems that they're trying to solve. — @msuster [tweet this]
When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others. — @jack_welch [tweet this]
Do you know what we call a failed entrepreneur in Silicon Valley? Experienced. — @sgblank [tweet this]
In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is a matter of miscasting. — @mwbuckingham [tweet this]
When you start with what's at stake for the buyer, you earn the right to their attention. — @jakesorofman [tweet this]
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. — Colin Powell [tweet this]
One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn. — @Oprah [tweet this]
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. — @sirkenrobinson [tweet this]
Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage. — @BreneBrown [tweet this]
Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure. — @StanMcChrystal [tweet this]
For any startup advice, ask yourself: Is the advice on how to succeed, or how not to fail? They're not the same thing! — @pmarca [tweet this]
Stories are what help us turn a brand promise, into a point of view, into a narrative that soars. — @jakesorofman [tweet this]
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. — @BillGates [tweet this]
Sometimes our assumptions are screaming so loudly we can't hear the truth. — @_robin_sharma [tweet this]
Genius is a function of *communities* of people. Those that add, subtract, challenge and execute. — @nilofer [tweet this]
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room. — @KareAnderson [tweet this]
Your probability of success is proportional to number of people that want you to succeed. Work to keep increasing that number. — @dharmesh [tweet this]
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful. — @reidhoffman [tweet this]
You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life. — @LollyDaskal [tweet this]
Getting something wrong does not mean you have failed. Instead, you have just learned what does not work. — @claychristensen [tweet this]
You beat burnout by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful. — @MarissaMayer [tweet this]
You can't manage creativity. You need to manage for creativity. You need to create the space for it to emerge. — @ariannahuff [tweet this]
I'm here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction. — Mark Zuckerberg [tweet this]
Other people's judgments do not have to be your judgments. — @dorieclark [tweet this]
Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. — @mcuban [tweet this]