It’s not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that’s important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.
- Zig Ziglar
Notable Quotables
And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.
- Richard Branson
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
- Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
- Bill Gates
When we are harassed and reach the limit of our own strength, many of us then turn in desperation to God-There are no atheists in foxholes. But why wait till we are desperate? Why not renew our strength every day? Why wait even until Sunday? For years I have had the habit of dropping into empty churches on weekday afternoons. When I feel that I am too rushed and hurried to spare a few minutes to think about spiritual things, I say to myself: Wait a minute, Dale Carnegie, wait a minute. Why all the feverish hurry and rush, little man? You need to pause and acquire a little perspective. At such times, I frequently drop into the first church that I find open. Although I am a Protestant, I frequently, on weekday afternoons, drop into St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, and remind myself that I’ll be dead in another thirty years, but that the great spiritual truths that all churches teach are eternal. I close my eyes and pray. I find that doing this calms my nerves, rests my body, clarifies my perspective, and helps me revalue my values. May I recommend this practice to you?
- Dale Carnegie
So sure, start with a slogan. But don’t bother wasting any time on it if you’re merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
- Seth Godin
You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.
- Joel Olsteen
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
- Napoleon Hill
I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm than a man who knows everything.
- John D. Rockefeller
Names are the sweetest, most important sound in any language.
- Dale Carnegie
Lay out what you’re doing to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
- David Novak
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability you have.
- Zig Ziglar
Through the wisdom of its government leaders and the entrepreneurship of its private sector, India has rapidly risen to become a major force in the global economy, … Cisco believes that the Internet, and related technologies, will be a key enabler for India to achieve its goal of becoming a developed nation.
- John Chambers
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
- Bill Gates
Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.
- Zig Ziglar
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
As a group, we believe that education is extremely important for ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren. We spend heavily for the educations of our offspring.
- Thomas J Stanley
The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.
- William Gibson
Today’s “best practices” lead to dead ends, the best paths are new and untried.
- Peter Thiel
Luck Is When Preparation Meets Opportunity.
- Seneca
Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Winston Churchill
If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
Kids instinctively know – although they will argue to the contrary – that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.
- Zig Ziglar
You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
- Elon Musk
The most valuable kind of company maintains an openness to invention that is most characteristic of beginnings.
- Peter Thiel
Freedom does not come automatically, it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound
- Rollo May
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
- Henry Ford
Leadership, very simply, is about two things: 1. Truth and trust. 2. Ceaselessly seeking the former, relentlessly building the latter.
- Jack Welch
Be ready for problems–you’ll have them every day. Keep open to new ideas–that’s where innovation begins.
- Donald Trump
I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask, ‘Why am I doing this?’ You don’t ever want anybody asking that question. You want them to say, ‘I know why I’m doing it, I need the money, let’s go’ or whatever it is that draws them.
- Ben Horowitz
Infrastructure web services had to happen.
- Jeff Bezos
Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
- Walt Disney
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
The maxim, “Nothing prevails but perfection,” may be spelled PARALYSIS.
- Winston Churchill
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
- Bill Gates
As God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days.Why should you and I?
- Dr. Spencer Johnson
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
- Phil Knight
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
- Andrew Carnegie
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, ‘Convert this to Android format.’
- Larry Ellison
People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.
- Dale Carnegie
The entrepreneur community, there’s a certain kind of founder, they call them a ‘lone wolf.’ I probably fit in that category.
- Travis Kalanick
It’s important to supplement a great product vision with a strong discipline around the metrics, but if you substitute metrics for product vision, you will not get what you want.
- Ben Horowitz
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The steel business is a local business. We do believe in the U.S. economy and would like to have a strong, balanced presence here.
- Alexei Mordashov
Entrepreneurs must protect themselves and the venture at all times by documenting your agreements.
- Jack Nadel
All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better. You can’t worry about it, you can’t panic when you look at the stock market’s decline. You get frozen like a deer in the headlights. All you can do is all you can do.
- Larry Ellison
People ask me what’s the most important function when you’re starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values that are going to endure. The discipline I believe so strongly in is H.R., and its the last discipline that gets funded.
- Howard Schultz
There are no rules here — we’re trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas Edison
I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.
- Donald Trump
I think when you’re very dedicated to something and you’re engaged fully, you become a giver.
- Russell Simmons
We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
- Lakshmi Mittal
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
- Ray Kroc
Stories let us lie to ourselves. And those lies satisfy our desires.
- Seth Godin
The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there’s no ball, there’s no game. Bullies hate that. So they’ll either behave so they can play with you or they’ll go bully someone else.
- Seth Godin
If you’re going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don’t work.
- Seth Godin
My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.
- Steve Wozniak
If your message is not getting heard, then it doesn’t much matter what it is…Breaking through the clutter is such a powerful concept that even when it’s done badly it can still work. Once I graduated from college I needed a job quickly. I was applying to advertising agencies, so rather than send out a typical one-page resume, I made up this dinky little brochure. It had my picture on the front and on the back a little poem I had written about why someone should hire me… – David Novak CEO of Yum! Brands
- David Novak
Surround yourself only with those that uplift you.
- Oprah Winfrey
I try to help people with management stuff a lot.
- Ben Horowitz
You give before you get.
- Napoleon Hill
It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.
- Winston Churchill
If you say too much or mix in multiple pitches, you diffuse your goal. You must give the media a pitch they can hit.
- Michael Levine
What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you’re going to have enormous impact on America, that’s a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.
- Michael Bloomberg
It’s not going out to people who aren’t going to go shopping. You’ve already got the people who are shopping.
- Jack Taylor
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader
How can I create something that critics will criticize?
- Seth Godin
Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.
- Dale Carnegie
Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
- Bill Gates
I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.
- Joel Olsteen
We’re really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
- Og Mandino
Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.
- Bill Gates
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
- Harry Truman
the ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability,” said John D., than for any other under the sun.
- Dale Carnegie
People everywhere love Windows.
- Bill Gates
Luke: What’s in there? Yoda: Only what you take with you.
- Yoda
Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work.
- Aliko Dangote
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
- Winston Churchill
I think Tim being in the Guard is great. I hope all of my kids join the military. It teaches them discipline and respect.
- Michael Ward
Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
- Joel Olsteen
Accountability breeds response-ability.
- Stephen R. Covey
It truly levels the playing field and puts all the emphasis on the content. And all the emphasis on the merit of the idea.
- Jack Dorsey
When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
- Walt Disney
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they’d bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.
- Ed Clark
Most of our wives are planners and meticulous budgeters. In fact, only 18 percent of us disagreed with the statement Charity begins at home. Most of us will tell you that our wives are a lot more conservative with money than we are.
- Thomas J Stanley
If it’s a good idea, someone has already probably thought about it first.
- Jack Nadel
I am very optimistic about china’s growth.
- Dhanin Chearavanont
If any of my competitors were drowning, I’d stick a hose in their mouth
- Ray Kroc
We believe our growth rate indicates that Cisco continues to gain market share against our traditional competitors in most product sectors.
- John Chambers
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
- Charles M. Schwab
I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
- Jeff Bezos
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
- Bill Gates
Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings.
- Oprah Winfrey
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
- Napoleon Hill
