The warrior mentality, the very fight to survive, is truly what created our culture.
- Herb Kelleher
Notable Quotables
Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
- Donald Trump
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
- Andrew Carnegie
People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
- Joe Gibbs
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
Adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it.
- Timothy Ferriss
Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.
- Ben Horowitz
For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Freedom is only part of the story and half the truth…. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplanted by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.
- Walt Disney
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
- Zig Ziglar
New customers are silver…loyal customers are gold.
- Anonymous
There has never been a statue erected in honor of a critic.
- Zig Ziglar
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.
- Warren Buffett
Men want to make women happy.
- Jerry Seinfeld
The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.
- Jeff Bezos
Your first projects aren’t the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn – you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.
- Steve Wozniak
Remember: There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.
- Timothy Ferriss
Success always demands a greater effort.
- Winston Churchill
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me….
- Thomas Edison
I do not suppose that at any moment of history has the agony of the world been so great or widespread. Tonight the sun goes down on more suffering than ever before in the world.
- Winston Churchill
But innovation and change make inordinate time demands on the executive. All one can think and do in a short time is to think what one already knows and to do as one has always done.
- Peter Drucker
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
- Bill Gates
It’s the moments where you feel most like hiding or dying that you can make the biggest difference as a CEO.
- Ben Horowitz
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
Make youself necessary to someone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
This office is smaller than the last one I had. I’m not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.
- Stephen Wynn
At the very beginning I actually felt a bit nervous. I didn’t have much experience in gaming.
- Lui Che Woo
When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.
- Joel Olsteen
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill
I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.
- Joel Olsteen
Diversification does not mean that we have lost confidence in the long term prospects of the property market. Just the contrary is true.One year after the hand-over of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty, the people in Hong Kong and around the world have witnessed the successful implementation of the ‘One Country, Two System.’
- Cheng Yu-tung
Wanda and Reliance are two of the largest private conglomerates in their respective countries. By joining our strengths together, we hope our cooperation will bring mutual benefits and great results.
- Wang Jianlin
The first four months of 2001 were extremely challenging, … This may be the fastest deceleration any company of our size has ever experienced.
- John Chambers
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
- Rupert Murdoch
You’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business—no matter how good the product.
- Peter Thiel
We have the best flat land, you can grow anything in the cheapest possible way; turning Nigeria around is not really that difficult. Nigeria is really the best place to invest, it is one of the places to make money; all over the world it (Nigeria) is the best kept secret actually in terms of investment.
- Aliko Dangote
I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was… an arctic wilderness.
- Steve Martin
I believe that success can be measured in the number of uncomfortable conversations you’re willing to have.
- Timothy Ferriss
I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.
- Harvey Mackay
A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.
- Winston Churchill
I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.
- Warren Buffett
If I were to retire, I would keep my family’s interest in the company the same and say, Don’t sell.
- Sheldon Adelson
Failing forward” is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.
- John C. Maxwell
Lack of ambition to aim above mediocrity.
- Napoleon Hill
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader
It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don’t feel like an oligarch.
- Vladimir Potanin
It’s easy to dream about it … Much harder to execute it ….Work!
- Gary Vaynerchuk
My financial service business is the absolute best thing I have done to empower the poor. I run many charities and fight many political causes, but my financial service company is the greatest gift I’ve given.
- Russell Simmons
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
- Winston Churchill
What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‘Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.’
- Bill Gates
When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
- Jack Ma
Nothing will work unless you do.
- Maya Angelou
Smith never wavered. Twenty-five years later, Kimberly-Clark owned Scott Paper outright and beat Procter & Gamble in six of eight product categories.12 In retirement, Smith reflected on his exceptional performance, saying simply, I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job.
- James C. Collins
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
Whatever your income, always live below your means.
- Thomas J Stanley
I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.
- Mukesh Ambani
Google is a small fish in a big pond. We could be swallowed whole at any time. We are not the monopoly that the government is looking for.
- Peter Thiel
What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It’s about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it’s something that people have wanted forever.
- Seth Godin
There was a moment when I was watching Martin Lawrence and Will Smith in ‘Badboys’ that I felt, you know, inspired. I don’t know if I was proud, because so many people do the work. Everyone’s part of a team that develops over the years and gives people chances. There have been some good moments watching people develop.
- Russell Simmons
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
Worry is the most significant factor that relates to the root of negative thinking.
- Zig Ziglar
Great CEOs face the pain. They deal with the sleepless nights, the cold sweats, and what my friend the great Alfred Chuang (legendary cofounder and CEO of BEA Systems) calls “the torture.” Whenever I meet a successful CEO, I ask them how they did it. Mediocre CEOs point to their brilliant strategic moves or their intuitive business sense or a variety of other self-congratulatory explanations. The great CEOs tend to be remarkably consistent in their answers. They all say, “I didn’t quit.
- Ben Horowitz
That’s why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.
- Dale Carnegie
Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world’s fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
- Wang Jianlin
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
- Thomas Edison
Rockefeller preferred to own raw land. In 1873, he invested in seventy-nine scenic acres at Forest Hill, a lovely, thickly wooded spot, crisscrossed by steep ravines and gulleys, just four miles east of his Euclid Avenue home.
- Ron Chernow
The worst that could happen wasn’t crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.
- Timothy Ferriss
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
Guess Instead of Thinking.
- Napoleon Hill
The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
- George Soros
Exercise is better than any medicine I can take, exercise and sleep.
- Aliko Dangote
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
- Oprah Winfrey
I wish I could do a lot of things different. I’m not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I’d go, ‘Okay, I’ll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.’ Really. But I’ve made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?
- Steve Martin
The love of a foster mother for her charge appears absolutely irrational.
- Winston Churchill
A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
- Peter Thiel
Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker
The Chinese who left the mother country had to struggle, and that became a culture of its own, passed on… through each generation. Because we have no social security, the overseas Chinese habit is not to spend a lot and to make a lot of friends.
- Lee Shau Kee
The accumulation of great fortunes calls for POWER and power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge, but that knowledge does not necessarily have to be in the possession of the man who accumulates the fortune.
- Napoleon Hill
The ballplayer who loses his head can’t keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
- Lou Gehrig
The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn’t have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.
- Steve Wozniak
But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by. It’s an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does.
- Reed Hastings
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
- George Soros
I tell my employees that we’re in the service business, and it’s incidental that we fly airplanes.
- Herb Kelleher
As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.
- Ben Horowitz
Every entrepreneur should plan to be the last mover in her particular market. That starts with asking yourself: what will the world look like 10 and 20 years from now, and how will my business fit in?
- Peter Thiel
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
- Jeff Bezos
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
- John C. Maxwell
As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.
- John C. Maxwell
Believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
- Seth Godin
If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.
- Bill Gates
If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you.
- Zig Ziglar
I mean, there’s no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. ‘You’re fired’ is a very strong term.
- Donald Trump
A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls– family, health, friends, integrity– are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered
- Gary Keller
Change is the price of progress.
- Napoleon Hill
Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can’t – you can’t put a wall up around here. We tried that in the ’30s. It didn’t work.
- Jack Welch
Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
- John C. Maxwell
