You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Notable Quotables
Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt.
- Seth Godin
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
- Warren Buffett
When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.
- Mark Zuckerberg
When a study was made a few years ago on runaway wives, what do you think was discovered to be the main reason wives ran away? It was lack of appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
- Peter Drucker
Comedy may be big business but it isn’t pretty.
- Steve Martin
“Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it eventually, just do it and correct course along the way.
- Timothy Ferriss
You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.
- Joel Olsteen
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
- Andrew Carnegie
Every enterprise is a learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels—training and development that never stop.
- Peter Drucker
For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.
- Timothy Ferriss
Market the change; be bold. Remember don’t be a bad ad, be a good one.
- David Novak
Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.
- Peter Thiel
Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
- Brene Brown
I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department.
- Sara Blakely
Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
- Winston Churchill
You can also make a 10x improvement through superior integrated design.
- Peter Thiel
I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration!
- Sara Blakely
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
- Bill Gates
Those who keep the peace of their inner selves in the midst of the tumult of the modern city are immune from nervous diseases.
- Dale Carnegie
I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process
- Oprah Winfrey
Everyone has the potential, but it isn’t accomplished overnight. It requires perseverance.
- John Maxwell
Everything in our society is so purposeful.
- Sara Blakely
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
- General George S. Patton
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
- Dale Carnegie
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
- Jack Dorsey
I’m a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen.
- Winston Churchill
Being a good company is an end in itself.
- Ben Horowitz
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
- Reid Hoffman
I like the fact that I can meet anyone now and have a conversation.
- Larry Page
We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.
- Seth Godin
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM – and they keep track of this – is a little over four years.
- Bill Gates
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.
- Richard Branson
It’s always darkest before the dawn.
- Anonymous
I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.
- Michael Dell
With the addition of these volumes, our Gulf Coast region is off to a good start for 2006 in its effort to grow its production. Combined, all regions are now showing growth in both production and reserves which is very attractive, especially considering the organic strategy on which we have predominately focused.
- Dan Dinges
Most GE business leaders now have digital cockpits on their computer screens that update in real time all the important data to help them manager their businesses.
- Jack Welch
I’m optimistic about the country. I’m optimistic about the American people.
- Howard Schultz
You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.
- Michael Bloomberg
America’s leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.
- Howard Schultz
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
- Bill Gates
Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.
- Russell Simmons
You can abuse me, you can strike me, so long as you let me have my own.
- Ron Chernow
War will find us whether we are ready or not.
- Winston Churchill
When we bought it, Spiegel was in a difficult situation; it made a loss at that time. We invested in it and then it turned around, and then we bought Eddie Bauer and Newport News.
- Michael Otto
I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.
- Seth Godin
Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
- Seth Godin
Well, sometimes you just don’t like somebody.
- Henry Ford
If you truly love what you are doing, why stop?
- Barry Schwartz
You are not your resume, you are your work.
- Seth Godin
I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last ended.
- Winston Churchill
Believe in your idea, trust your instincts, and don’t be afraid to fail. It took me two years from the time I had the idea for Spanx until the time I had a product in hand ready to sell into stores. I must have heard the word “no” a thousand times. If you believe in your idea 100%, don’t let anyone stop you! Not being afraid to fail is a key part of the success of Spanx.
- Sara Blakely
Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
- Bill Gates
My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.
- Jerry Seinfeld
If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive good.
- Russell Simmons
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.
- John C. Maxwell
The reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is that they keep below them. Thus they are able to reign over all the mountain streams. So the sage, wishing to be above men, putteth himself below them; wishing to be before them, he putteth himself behind them. Thus, though his place be above men, they do not feel his weight; though his place be before them, they do not count it an injury.
- Dale Carnegie
Be a coach, not a cheerleader
- Stacy Thorn
Churchill: The strangling of Bolshevism at its birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race.Mr. Seymour Cocks (Labor Party): “If that had happened we should have lost the 1939 -45 war”.Churchill: No, it would have prevented that war.
- Winston Churchill
Eroom’s law—that’s Moore’s law backward—observes that the number of new drugs approved per billion dollars spent on R&D has halved every nine years since 1950.
- Peter Thiel
I am an expert in Higher Level Math. You + God= Enough
- Zig Ziglar
Success doesn’t make you and failure doesn’t break you.
- Zig Ziglar
People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.
- Joel Olsteen
It’s absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.
- Zig Ziglar
If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.
- Dave Ramsey
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.
- Jeff Bezos
Salga de la rutina, extienda su visión y comience a dar gracias a Dios por las bendiciones explosivas que llegarán a su camino.
- Joel Olsteen
A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.
- Yoda
Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.
- Dale Carnegie
It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
- Jeff Bezos
It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, This sickness can’t take my life.” This cancer can’t defeat me.” No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.
- Joel Olsteen
the average person is more interested in his or her own name than in all the other names on earth put together.
- Dale Carnegie
If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.
- Elon Musk
Over the past 30 years, the nation has gradually opened up under such reform policies, which have presented enormous challenges and unlimited opportunities for the people and benefited the development of the nation all these years.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Watered-down feedback can be worse than no feedback at all because it’s deceptive and confusing to the recipient.
- Ben Horowitz
The freedom of the new kind of work (which most of us do, most of the time) is that the tasks are vague and difficult to measure. We can waste an hour surfing the ’Net because no one knows if surfing the ’Net is going to help us make progress or connections. This freedom is great, because it means no one is looking over your shoulder; no one is using a stopwatch on you. This freedom is a pox, because it’s an opening for the resistance. Freedom like this makes it easy to hide, easy to find excuses, easy to do very little.
- Seth Godin
All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they’re all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul.
- Masayoshi Son
Over-Caution.
- Napoleon Hill
I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.
- Jeff Bezos
There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
- Jack Welch
The warrior mentality, the very fight to survive, is truly what created our culture.
- Herb Kelleher
The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.
- John C. Maxwell
Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
- Winston Churchill
Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
- Russell Simmons
In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.
- Peter Thiel
Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.
- Steve Ballmer
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses.’
- Henry Ford
I don’t think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You’re always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it’ll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it’s always meant to be something. So, to me, there’s no practicing; there’s only editing and publishing or not publishing.
- Steve Martin
If I am gone tommorrow am I happy with my life?
- Stacy Thorn
We’re running the company to serve more people.
- Mark Zuckerberg
If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.
- Elon Musk
Complaints are your best learning opportunity
- Bill Gates
It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
- Larry Page
If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.
- Winston Churchill
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
- Paula Poundstone





