Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.
- Bill Gates
Notable Quotables
A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
- Mark Zuckerberg
To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.
- Michael Bloomberg
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
- Paula Poundstone
Strive to make every person feel special. After all, every person you meet is made in the image of God.
- Joel Olsteen
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today’s world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
- Jack Welch
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
- Napoleon Hill
No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
- Seth Godin
It’s pretty chilly by southern California standards.
- Ed Clark
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
- Seth Godin
I think it’s too early to tell.
- John Chambers
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
- Henry Ford
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune, it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
- P.T. Barnum
I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
We believe the competitive and economic environment will remain very challenging in the year ahead. Whilst we think we have the opportunity to make improvements to some of our ranges, we are still budgeting on the basis of negative like-for-like retail sales for the year.
- Simon Wolfson
Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
- Winston Churchill
I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.
- Andrew Carnegie
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
- Henry Ford
It’s my view that solar energy may be the ultimate solution for energy for most of the world. I believe, based on what little I know about it, that there is a possibility of a breakthrough.
- Donald Bren
Do not look like you are playing the fiddle while Rome is burning….stay focussed – Paraphrased from
- David Novak
I believe it’s important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
- Zig Ziglar
A definite view, by contrast, favors firm convictions. Instead of pursuing many-sided mediocrity and calling it “well-roundedness,” a definite person determines the one best thing to do and then does it. Instead of working tirelessly to make herself indistinguishable, she strives to be great at something substantive—to be a monopoly of one. This is not what young people do today, because everyone around them has long since lost faith in a definite world. No one gets into Stanford by excelling at just one thing, unless that thing happens to involve throwing or catching a leather ball.
- Peter Thiel
One of the cornerstones of what I believe will be the future is wave after wave of applications.
- John Chambers
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
- Ben Horowitz
Well, yes, I’ve fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it’s always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
- Donald Trump
The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.
- John C. Maxwell
Although office rental in Hong Kong recorded a general downward adjustment and the slowdown in the economy in the past financial year brought along its negative impacts on the local retailing and food sectors, the major retail shopping properties owned by the Group were able to maintain an overall occupancy rate of 93% whilst rental levels generally remained steady.
- Lee Shau Kee
Too often the investment in people stops there.
- Ben Horowitz
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
- Michael Bloomberg
The fatal temptation is to describe your market extremely narrowly so that you dominate it by definition.
- Peter Thiel
Never fear to negotiate, but never negotiate out of fear.
- Jack Nadel
The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It’s amazing how fast they found their markets disappearing.
- Harvey Mackay
It is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.
- Winston Churchill
In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China – execution is.
- Ma Huateng
Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Always avoid the acute angle.
- Dale Carnegie
It takes a decade to grow trees but a century to nurture human beings.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.
- Herb Kelleher
Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.
- Zig Ziglar
The ability to get the job done.
- Jack Welch
No matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.
- Sheryl Sandberg
How will your new job differ from your current job?
- Ben Horowitz
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.
- Elon Musk
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
EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it.
- Jack Ma
Believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
- Seth Godin
Build a culture that rewards—not punishes—people for getting problems into the open where they can be solved.
- Ben Horowitz
We have a very high churn rate, but as soon as we turn on email marketing to our user base, people will come back.” Yes, of course. The reason that people leave our service and don’t come back is that we have not been sending them enough spam. That makes total sense to me, too.
- Ben Horowitz
You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
- Joel Olsteen
Humans, particularly those who build things, only listen to leading indicators of good news.
- Ben Horowitz
A lot of churches have not moved with the times.
- Joel Olsteen
It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.
- Ray Kroc
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
If salespeople don’t probe well for background information, they don’t know how to launch the presentation.
- Jerry Vass
Nothing will work unless you do.
- Maya Angelou
My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.
- Joel Olsteen
Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda’s international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.
- Wang Jianlin
One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions, your passions choose you.
- Jeff Bezos
What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone’s not put a lot of effort into their look.
- Sara Blakely
God created you to leave your mark on this generation. You have gifts and talents that you have not tapped into. There are new levels of your destiny still in front of you. But break out starts in your thinking. As you put these keys into action, making room for increase, expecting shifts of God’s favor, praying bold prayers, and keeping the right perspective, then God will release floods of His goodness that will thrust you beyond barriers of the past into the extraordinary life you were designed to live.
- Joel Olsteen
When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
- Carl Icahn
What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats… or skinny.
- Steve Martin
When completed the new facility will have the capacity to accommodate approximately 3,000 staff.
- John Chambers
Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.
- Dale Carnegie
If you really believe that you’re making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets – not to have a fair fight.
- Michael Bloomberg
I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‘There’s nothing good in my future’ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.
- Joel Olsteen
Young people in China and Hong Kong are the future of the motherland.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Music plays a very important role in my life. I’m a frustrated musician. I play the drums.
- Ronald Perelman
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
- Og Mandino
For Roosevelt knew, as all leaders know, that the royal road to a person’s heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most.
- Dale Carnegie
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
- Michael Bloomberg
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you’ve prepared mentally and physically, you don’t have to worry.
- Harvey Mackay
Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This leads them to believe that the market mechanism can take care of all the problems.
- George Soros
In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors.
- Raymond Kwok
But there is no reason why technology should be limited to computers. Properly understood, any new and better way of doing things is technology.
- Peter Thiel
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word ‘pessimist’ was not in our vocabulary at that time. It’s a modern ‘invention’ which I believe we should ‘dis-invent.’
- Zig Ziglar
Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.
- Ray Dalio
Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn’t good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.
- Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles
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
I love people, and the hustle.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things. I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.
- Elon Musk
There’s a sucker born every minute.
- P.T. Barnum
Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
- Thomas Edison
The engineer’s grail is a product great enough that “it sells itself.
- Peter Thiel
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- Henry Ford
Did we not all grow up saying we had to have four glasses of whole milk a day for healthy bones? It’s ridiculous. It’s liquid cholesterol.
- Stephen Wynn
On scores of occassions, when I have faced emergencies, some of them so grave that my life was in jeopardy, I have been miraculously guided past these difficulties through the influence of my Invisible Counselors. My original purpose in conducting Council meetings with imaginary beings, was soley that of impressing my own subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion, with certain characteristcs which I desired to acquire. In more recent years, my experimentation has taken on a different trend. I now go to my imaginary counselors with every difficult problem which confronts me and my clients. The results are often astonishing, although I do not depend entirerely on this form of counsel.
- Napoleon Hill
We have a mantra: don’t be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
- Larry Page
But use the opposite technique – be liberal with your encouragement, make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it – and he will practise until the dawn comes in the window in order to excel.
- Dale Carnegie
If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.
- Woodrow Wilson
Indeed, the biggest winners in the world are those who answer yes to the question, “Am I living the life I choose?”
- Jack Welch
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
- Winston Churchill
Our task today is to find singular ways to create the new things that will make the future not just different, but better—to go from 0 to 1. The essential first step is to think for yourself. Only by seeing our world anew, as fresh and strange as it was to the ancients who saw it first, can we both re-create it and preserve it for the future.
- Peter Thiel
If your offering itself isn’t remarkable, then it’s invisible — no matter how much you spend on well-crafted advertising.
- Seth Godin
A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.
- George Soros
Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company.
- Steve Wozniak
The challenge, it turns out, isn’t in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by.
- Seth Godin
There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.
- Bill Gates
I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.
- Steve Martin
