You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.
- Oprah Winfrey
Notable Quotables
There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.
- Bill Gates
The Law of Crappy People states: For any title level in a large organization, the talent on that level will eventually converge to the crappiest person with the title.
- Ben Horowitz
If everybody is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
- Sam Walton
Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
- John C. Maxwell
Watered-down feedback can be worse than no feedback at all because it’s deceptive and confusing to the recipient.
- Ben Horowitz
We can schedule for it. Thursday, April 3rd, 3:05…start something. We can train for it, plan for it, announce it, and even hire for it. If initiating is as essential to the modern organization as it appears, we better be doing all of that and more.
- Seth Godin
For any Silicon Valley company, the most important thing is the company. And any great founders need to get out of the way of the company. We presented a spark with an idea.
- Jack Dorsey
I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.
- Joel Olsteen
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
- Warren Buffett
He felt the Gettysburg Address was one of the greatest documents ever written, mainly because Lincoln had said so much with so few words.
- David Novak
I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy.
- Michael Gerber
It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.
- Winston Churchill
The essential thing to know about the Dip is that it’s there. Knowing that you’re facing a Dip is the first step in getting through it.
- Seth Godin
New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
- Zig Ziglar
Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.
- Zig Ziglar
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
- Babe Ruth
I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed.
- Winston Churchill
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
- Bill Gates
As a founder, your first job is to get the first things right, because you cannot build a great company on a flawed foundation.
- Peter Thiel
I’m just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.
- Ray Dalio
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
- John D. Rockefeller
You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
- Zig Ziglar
The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
- Russell Simmons
Throughout this quarter of a century, the entrepreneurial outlook, versatility and vision of our employees have remained the crucial elements of our success…
- Cheng Yu-tung
My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers’ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.
- Joel Olsteen
Everyone deserves at least a chance to make things better. And besides people can surprise you.
- David Novak
In retirement, Smith reflected on his exceptional performance, saying simply, I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job.
- James C. Collins
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
- Peter Drucker
If people look inward, they would see the opportunities for greatness.
- Aliko Dangote
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
Like biological evolution, ‘survival of the fittest’ during the course of reformation is to adapt to changes in the surrounding environment and make changes accordingly.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Life’s too short to fight the forces of change. Life’s too short to hate what you do all day. Life’s way too short to make mediocre stuff.
- Seth Godin
There are some people that can get things done, and it seems there are others who just can’t. That’s why we move heaven and earth to retain our stars and the main reason we manage out our lowest performers – the bottom 10% at least – each year.
- David Novak
If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.
- Azim Premji
About half of our wives do not work outside the home. The number-one occupation for those wives who do work is teacher.
- Thomas J Stanley
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
- Thomas Edison
Don’t confuse selling with art.
- Jack Taylor
Not victory , Obi- Wan. The shroud of the Dark Side has fallen. Begun, this Clone War has.
- Yoda
The factory has programmed that adventurous impulse out of us. The economic imperative of the last century has been to avoid risk, avoid change, and most of all, avoid exploration and the new. An efficient factory fears change because change means retooling and risk and a blip in productivity. Sure, we’ll put up with change if we have to, and welcome the predictable incremental change of productivity improvement, but please leave us alone when it comes to the word “bold.” Avoiding risk worked then but doesn’t work now. Now “what’s next?” is in fact the driving force for individuals and for organizations. Ever onward, ever faster.
- Seth Godin
Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
- Seth Godin
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
- Jeff Bezos
Success in dealing with people depends on a sympathetic grasp of the other person’s viewpoint.
- Dale Carnegie
If plan A” fails — remember you have 25 letters left.
- Chris Guillebeau
When you expect your employees to act like adults, they generally do. If you treat them like children, then get ready for your company to turn into one big Barney episode.
- Ben Horowitz
With every obstacle that has happened to me in my life, my brain immediately says, ‘Where is the hidden blessing?’ In starting a business and growing a business, every day is learning how to manage obstacles.
- Sara Blakely
The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
- Bill Gates
Yes, a Jedi’s strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice.
- Yoda
We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals.
- George Foreman
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
- Ben Horowitz
Anybody can leverage celebrity for profit.
- Howard Schultz
Lay out what you’re doing to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
- David Novak
Rockefeller’s supreme insight was that he could solve the oil industry’s problems by solving the railroad’s problems at the same time, creating a double cartel in oil and rails. One of Rockefeller’s strength in bargaining situations was that he figured out what he wanted and what the other party wanted and then crafted mutually advanteous terms. Instead of ruining the railroads, Rockefeller tried to help them prosper, albeit in away that fortified his own position.
- Ron Chernow
Why settle for the ‘get by’ when in the long run the good costs less?
- Zig Ziglar
A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he’s going to do a great job.
- Donald Trump
The real benefit of having goals is what you become by reaching them.
- Zig Ziglar
Capitalism will save us.
- Steve Forbes
By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: ‘John, I’d love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I’ve got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said ‘no’ yesterday. Gotta run!
- Timothy Ferriss
The people who skip the hard questions are in the majority, but they are not in demand.
- Seth Godin
The first sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures us, you must not look too good nor talk too wise.
- Dale Carnegie
To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark – in a way that you think is important and lasting – that’s a life well-lived.
- Laurene Powell Jobs
Most of the fans have ideas about their perfect phone. But many of them can’t do it because building a phone is tough. So they would give us feedback about the features that they think should be included in our next model. And if we incorporated that in our new phone, they will share the good news with their friends.
- Lei Jun
People don’t want to embrace culture shifts because it’s not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Incineration does not equal human digestion, eating a fireplace log will not store the same number of calories as burning one will produce.
- Timothy Ferriss
The dollar has lost 90% of its value in the last century.
- Robert Kiyosaki
I go to yoga every day. I meditate every morning.
- Russell Simmons
Put everything you’ve got into what you’re doing. Be totally focused–nothing should be haphazard.
- Donald Trump
In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
- Bill Gates
You can be happy where you are.
- Joel Olsteen
Transparency is terribly important in a situation like this, as a quick reaction time, because news today is not immediate. It travels globally on the Internet. In our YouTube culture, dramatic videos take on a life of their own, beyond anyone’s control. – (on crisis management)
- David Novak
Don’t ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
- Wang Jianlin
Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
- Timothy Ferriss
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
- Elon Musk
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
I’m anti-tax, but I’m pro-carbon tax.
- Elon Musk
The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.
- Zig Ziglar
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
In bad times and good, I have never lost my sense zest for life
- Walt Disney
But entrepreneurs should take cultures of extreme dedication seriously.
- Peter Thiel
Saying yes makes you fail to meet expectations of theobligation.
- David Nilssen
I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.
- Joel Olsteen
On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
- Joel Olsteen
I had been trained by him. I knew him. I loved him. I simply never took it personally. If I had anything to say about it, he was not going to leave.
- Phil Knight
The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.
- Elon Musk
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
- Steve Wozniak
There is nothing either good or bad,” said Shakespeare, but thinking makes it so.
- Dale Carnegie
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
- Warren Buffett
For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.
- Vladimir Potanin
Who you attract is not determined by what you want. It’s determined by who you are.
- John Maxwell
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.
- Harvey Mackay
We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
- Warren Buffett
Abe Lincoln once remarked that most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Dale Carnegie
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
- Zig Ziglar
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
- Ray Kroc
No one has any idea what’s next… the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it’s delaying the recovery.
- Stephen Wynn
