Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
- Ben Horowitz
Notable Quotables
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don’t have a Facebook page. I don’t use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don’t use them.
- Elon Musk
Cuando dos socios siempre están de acuerdo, uno de ellos no es necesario.
- Dale Carnegie
Linchpins are the essential building blocks of tomorrow’s high-value organizations. They don’t bring capital or expensive machinery, nor do they blindly follow instructions and merely contribute labor. Linchpins are indispensable, the driving force of our future.
- Seth Godin
All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.
- Peter Thiel
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
- Donald Trump
I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
- Jack Dorsey
There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
- Andrew Carnegie
The warrior mentality, the very fight to survive, is truly what created our culture.
- Herb Kelleher
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
- Thomas Edison
Good intentions aren’t enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.
- Harvey Mackay
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.
- Mark Zuckerberg
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
- Zig Ziglar
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
- Seth Godin
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
- Ben Horowitz
You have to come up with what the consumer wants, and you need a vehicle to understand it.
- Phil Knight
The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets.
- Howard Schultz
I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.
- Howard Schultz
The current (educational) structure, which seeks low-cost uniformity that meets minimum standards, is killing our economy, our culture, and us.
- Seth Godin
Not victory , Obi- Wan. The shroud of the Dark Side has fallen. Begun, this Clone War has.
- Yoda
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
- Dale Carnegie
hombre que conozco es superior a mí en algún sentido. En ese sentido, aprendo de él.
- Dale Carnegie
The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
- Bill Gates
1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20).2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson’s Law).
- Timothy Ferriss
So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
- Oprah Winfrey
For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
- Zig Ziglar
We’re working toward the ability for all Cisco devices to work together and communicate with each other to stop attacks. The idea is that one device can warn another device of a threat.
- John Chambers
Stop selling. Start helping.
- Zig Ziglar
If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself.
- Stephen Wynn
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.
- Bill Gates
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
- Warren Buffett
If you want to increase your success rate, double your rate of failure.
- Thomas J Watson
If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
- Bill Gates
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
Don’t just park money in the bank.
- Lee Shau Kee
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
- Steve Jobs
Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
- Bill Gates
Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.
- Sara Blakely
We should be able to significantly improve health-care outcomes. The government is needing that. When you look at ACOs [accountable care organizations] and look at what the Obama administration is talking about, in trying to improve quality, that’s exactly what Express Scripts does.
- George Paz
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
- Walt Disney
Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren’t lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre.
- Timothy Ferriss
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
- Stephen R. Covey
True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
[In January 2011] There are so many features Twitter could build. There’s so many features that Square can build. But there is only one or two going to bring us to the next level.
- Jack Dorsey
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
- John D. Rockefeller
There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
- Jack Welch
There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.
- Mark Zuckerberg
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
- Peter Drucker
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars – this is very important – so you don’t have to carry the return fuel when you go there.
- Elon Musk
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
When you have the right staff, potential skyrockets.
- Napoleon Hill
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- Jack Dorsey
Fear is one of the worst things in business.
- Jack Nadel
When marketing put yourself in the shoes of the customer.
- David Novak
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
Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.
- Seth Godin
The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.
- Winston Churchill
I’m a pretty conservative guy. But for some reason in business, I have always been pretty driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where we’ve been. On the one hand, in the community, I really am an establishment kind of guy; on the other hand, in the marketplace, I have always been a maverick who enjoys shaking things up and creating a little anarchy. And sometimes the establishments made me mad…
- Sam Walton
I guess Mr. Walton just had a personality that drew people in. He would yell at you from a block away, you know. He would just yell at everybody he saw, and that’s the reason so many liked him and did business in his store. It was like he brought in business by his being so friendly. (on role of managing partner)
- Inez Threet
Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten.
- Anonymous
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble
- Warren Buffett
Speak up for those who cannot speak up for themselves.
- Proverbs 31:8
In my weekly staff meeting, I inserted an agenda item titled “What Are We Not Doing?
- Ben Horowitz
When one person yells the other should listen. When two people yell, there’s no communication.
- Dale Carnegie
lasting transformations from good to great follow a general pattern of buildup followed by breakthrough.
- James C. Collins
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
There’s always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It’s long since passed that a typical person doesn’t leave footprints.
- Bill Gates
The battle is all over except the ‘shouting’ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
- Napoleon Hill
People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
- Azim Premji
Be candid with everyone. Candor is the biggest dirty little secret in business?
- Jack Welch
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.
- Winston Churchill
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
- Napoleon Hill
The wealthy class often looks down on the poor as those people. And deprived people view the rich as cold and heartless. The way to break down the barrier between the rich and poor is to asociate with each other and to help one another. Make a connection. If you can break down the barrier, it may pave the way to recovery for some person, a family, maybe an entire community.
- George Foreman
People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.
- Bill Gates
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
- Peter Drucker
If you have any more than three priorities, you have no priorities.
- Maggie Fox
We all prospect, and don’t even know we’re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you’re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.
- Zig Ziglar
The reason Steve Herrell’s shop did so well is that it was famous for having a line! People brought folks from out of town to have the experience.
- Seth Godin
[In January 2011] I think the important thing for Twitter is that it works on any technology.
- Jack Dorsey
God created every one of us to be successful. Before the foundation of the world, He laid out an exact plan for our lives. And in this plan He has moments of favor that will come across our path. These moments are not ordinary. They are destiny-altering moments.
- Joel Olsteen
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.
- George Soros
Everything we do is about getting people to be more open, more creative, more courageous.
- Jack Dorsey
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
- Andrew Carnegie
What gets measured gets managed.
- Peter Drucker
For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them” (Matthew 25:29).
- Peter Thiel
My dad is like a cactus – introverted and tough. I’m a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He’s my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Properly run startups place a great deal of emphasis on recruiting and the interview process in order to build their talent base. Too often the investment in people stops there.
- Ben Horowitz
On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, ‘What God do you pray to?’ What beliefs do you hold?’
- Michael Bloomberg
I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate
- Seth Godin
Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.
- General George S. Patton
I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
