Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
- Henry Ford
Notable Quotables
Positively defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future. A new company’s most important strength is new thinking: even more important than nimbleness, small size affords space to think.
- Peter Thiel
Bill Gates wants people to think he’s Edison, when he’s really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn’t right… wealth isn’t the same thing as intelligence.
- Larry Ellison
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
- Thomas Edison
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
- Henry Ford
There are few words which are used more loosely than the word “Civilization.” What does it mean? It means a society based upon the opinion of civilians. It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained. That is Civilization—and in its soil grow continually freedom, comfort, and culture. When Civilization reigns, in any country, a wider and less harassed life is afforded to the masses of the people. The traditions of the past are cherished, and the inheritance bequeathed to us by former wise or valiant men becomes a rich estate to be enjoyed and used by all.
- Winston Churchill
At the macro level, the single word for horizontal progress is globalization—taking things that work somewhere and making them work everywhere.
- Peter Thiel
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
- Napoleon Hill
There is a good chance India may become our largest total sales market in the whole of Asia.
- John Chambers
We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
- Tadashi Yanai
Bush’s war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.
- George Soros
E – Energy
- Jack Welch
Do you know what that word reign means? It means, time in power.” God said we’re to reign how long? In life. That means as long as you’re alive that is your time in power.
- Joel Olsteen
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
A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.
- Peter Thiel
I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
- Warren Buffett
The people’s ability to achieve is determined by their leader’s ability to empower.
- Napoleon Hill
China’s open-door policy, the favourable local exchange rates, the growing affluence and changing lifestyles in South Asian countries and burgeoning economic activities in the Asia-Pacific Rim are all conducive factors to the continuing tourism boom.
- Cheng Yu-tung
I produced Run DMC. I produced some early records, lots of records early on.
- Russell Simmons
Comedy may be big business but it isn’t pretty.
- Steve Martin
Mudhole? Slimy? My home this is!
- Yoda
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
- Og Mandino
Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
- Zig Ziglar
I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.
- Mukesh Ambani
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
- W. Clement Stone
The other buzzword that epitomizes a bias toward substitution is “big data.” Today’s companies have an insatiable appetite for data, mistakenly believing that more data always creates more value. But big data is usually dumb data. Computers can find patterns that elude humans, but they don’t know how to compare patterns from different sources or how to interpret complex behaviors. Actionable insights can only come from a human analyst (or the kind of generalized artificial intelligence that exists only in science fiction).
- Peter Thiel
If something is expensive to develop, and somebody’s not going to get paid, it won’t get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
- Bill Gates
EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it.
- Jack Ma
The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.
- Zig Ziglar
Never allow anyone to get between you and your customers and suppliers.
- Jack Welch
The successful leader must plan his work, and work his plan. A leader who moves by guesswork, without practical, definite plans, is comparable to a ship without a rudder. Sooner or later he will land on the rocks.
- Andrew Carnegie
We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.
- Joel Olsteen
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.
- Steve Martin
It was not her sex appeal but the obvious relish with which she devoured the hamburger that made my pulse begin to hammer with excitement.
- Ray Kroc
Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.
- John C. Maxwell
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
These are all commodity-focused issues. The old conceit of a retailer was that if you offered the right products at a fair price in a convenient location, you’d do fine if you watched your expenses. Today, the issues are totally different.
- Seth Godin
When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It’s them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
- Jack Dorsey
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
- Ben Horowitz
We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.”-Bill Gates, Entrepreneur and founder of Microsoft
- Bill Gates
Don’t ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
- Wang Jianlin
In the most minimal sense, the future is simply the set of all moments yet to come.
- Peter Thiel
The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.
- Bill Gates
The final relationship that cannot be ignored is with disrupters: They are individuals who cause trouble for sport – inciting opposition to management for a variety of reasons, most of them petty. Usually these people have good performance – that’s their cover – and so they are endured or appeased. A company that manages people well takes disrupters head-on. First they give them very tough evaluations, naming their bad behaviour and demanding it change. Usually it won’t. Disrupters are a personality type. If that’s the case, get them out of the way of people trying to do their jobs. They’re poison.
- Jack Welch
This the real world, homie, school finished They done stole your dreams, you dunno who did it.
- Kanye West
You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
- Elon Musk
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
The better at communicating you are, and the more people you communicate to, the better your cash flow will be.
- Robert Kiyosaki
When we think about online learning, it’s such ‘early days.’ Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like, ‘Who’s every going to need more than 640K of memory?’
- Reed Hastings
Well, excuuuuuse me!
- Steve Martin
I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.
- Dale Carnegie
The secret to being wrong isn’t to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn’t fatal.
- Seth Godin
You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It’s starting to really become a cool thing for young people.
- Russell Simmons
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
- Winston Churchill
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
- Zig Ziglar
We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
- Zig Ziglar
It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.
- Joel Olsteen
The people who skip the hard questions are in the majority, but they are not in demand.
- Seth Godin
I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am an investor.
- Warren Buffett
The problem with common sense is that it’s not really that common. – David Novak CEO of Yum! Brands
- David Novak
His strategy would be to subjugate one part of the battlefield, consolidate his forces, then move briskly on to the next conquest. His victory over the Cleveland refiners would be the first but alos the most controversial compaign of his career.
- Ron Chernow
I worry about losing a real talent. I hate losing a great leader more than anything. I also hate it when I have to manager out a good person for poor performance or for simply doing something that is not in sync with our values. One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do in my life and I’ve had to do it more than once, is fire a friend.
- David Novak
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
- John D. Rockefeller
Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don’t think over time that’s a good way to go. I’m a huge believe in digital currency… but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I’m not involved in Bitcoin.”-Bill Gates, Entrepreneur and founder of Microsoft
- Bill Gates
A student of life considers the world a classroom.
- Harvey Mackay
Don’t use your words to describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.
- Joel Olsteen
Some things you can only learn in the struggle. When it’s easy, when everything is going your way, that doesn’t take any faith.
- Joel Olsteen
If you ask me whether the future is better than today, I would say yes; but the people must be ready to pay for services and pay their taxes.
- Aliko Dangote
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
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
- Walt Disney
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
Companies such as Echelon are poised to help drive this change with Cisco and extend the power of the Internet from business to the home.
- John Chambers
In 1973 when the Hong Kong stock market witnessed an unprecedented slump with the Hang Seng Index plunging by over 90% in a year, the Group built the New World Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong through the acquisition of Holt’s Wharf. In doing so we broke the dominance of the UK-based conglomerates and, as if [being given] a shot in the arm, initiated the course of weaving the companies with Chinese capital into the economic fabric of Hong Kong.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.
- Bill Gates
Very important people have told me that they prefer good listeners to good talkers, but the ability to listen seems rarer than almost any other good trait.
- Dale Carnegie
There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.
- Elon Musk
Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.
- Yoda
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
- Andrew Carnegie
No, I’m not settling here. I’m going to keep pressing forward.
- Joel Olsteen
Extraordinary results are directlydetermined by how narrow you can make your focus.
- Gary Keller
In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time.
- Carl Icahn
greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.
- James C. Collins
I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.
- Joel Olsteen
Even if you don’t have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt.
- Victoria Ransom
SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.
- Bill Gates
There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.
- Henry Sy
Actresses are kind of a little crazy.
- Russell Simmons
There’s a difference between telling people what to do and inciting a movement.
- Seth Godin
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
- Zig Ziglar
Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation.
- Peter Drucker
You may think using Google’s great, but I still think it’s terrible.
- Larry Page
Government shouldn’t tell you whom to marry.
- Michael Bloomberg
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
- Og Mandino
The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.
- Herb Kelleher
