Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
- Winston Churchill
Notable Quotables
Who’s your Jedi master? WHO’S your Jedi Master?
- Yoda
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
- Andrew Carnegie
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.
- Zig Ziglar
People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
- Bill Gates
The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work if you won’t.
- Zig Ziglar
My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job
- Ted Turner
The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
- Donald Trump
Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.
- Sara Blakely
I’m blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
- Joel Olsteen
I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We’re prepared to pay billions.
- Sheldon Adelson
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
- Maya Angelou
[On Howard White] Rather than say to young people that they should have a goal and focus on it, he reverses it: ‘Any road will get you there if you don’t know where you’re going.’ Most often, on reflection, you will grow to understand that what had passed for a funny commnet of the moment has a good deal of wisdom behind it.
- Phil Knight
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
The first rule of organizational design is that all organizational designs are bad.
- Ben Horowitz
Sports is like rock ‘n’ roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
- Phil Knight
Hay una divinidad que forja nuestros fines, por mucho que queramos alterarlos.
- Dale Carnegie
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
- Winston Churchill
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
- Ben Horowitz
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
- W. Clement Stone
You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country’s success.
- Michael Bloomberg
I am more of a creative person. I recognize that about myself, which is why I hired my weaknesses early on. I think if most founders don’t relinquish some control, then we hold back the development of our companies.
- Sara Blakely
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
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Q1 was a solid quarter for Cisco, with balanced execution across most of our geographies, market segments and product categories, … We are especially pleased with the improving business momentum in the U.S. and Asia Pacific, the strength of our product families and the accelerated growth of the commercial marketplace, which has become our fastest growing customer segment.
- John Chambers
Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn’t mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It’s about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.
- Steve Martin
Berkshire’s record would have been terrible if Warren didn’t keep learning.
- Charlie Munger
In the game of life, money is just how we keep score.
- Clay Clark
Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
- Steve Wozniak
Okay, let’s talk about cartoon labels for half a second – some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It’s, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it’s actually a solid wine.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.
- Joel Olsteen
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
Customers have different need states and life experiences.
- Howard Schultz
I am a man who has always needed heros.
- Phil Knight
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
- Brian Tracy
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
In business, just the opposite is often true; silence means dissent. Have you ever been in a meeting where you sense there is obvious disagreement, but the disagreement never really gets put on the table? This what I call the Slow No’s.
- David Novak
Strip malls are history.
- Jeff Bezos
The only way to solve the problem of Boko Haram is to create jobs.
- Aliko Dangote
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
Art is the unique work of a human being, work that touches another.
- Seth Godin
Being nice to people is just 20% of providing good customer service. The important part is designing systems that allow you to do the job right the first time. All the smiles in the world aren’t going to help you if your product or service is not what the customer wants,
- James L. Heskett
What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.
- Reid Hoffman
Education is the key to unlock the Golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
No slovenly, careless person can become a successful leader. Leadership calls for respect. Followers will not respect a leader who does not grade high on all of the factors of a Pleasing Personality.
- Napoleon Hill
Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
- Winston Churchill
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
- Warren Buffett
We didn’t really know what was happening.
- John Chambers
It’s not like I’m anti-China. I just think it’s ridiculous that we allow them to do what they’re doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.
- Donald Trump
I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.
- Bill Gates
I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last… Whether it’s tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
- Tadashi Yanai
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
- Bill Gates
This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.
- Michael Bloomberg
Teams only succeed when the players have a unified vision, no matter how much talent or potential there is.
- John Maxwell
What is school for? If you’re not asking that, you’re wasting time and money.
- Seth Godin
I’m a little unusual: I’m a six-person-or-less extrovert.
- Reid Hoffman
Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.
- Zig Ziglar
DAY TWENTY I DECLARE that I am calm and peaceful. I will not let people or circumstances upset me. I will rise above every difficulty, knowing that God has given me the power to remain calm. I choose to live my life happy, bloom where I am planted, and let God fight my battles. This is my declaration.
- Joel Olsteen
When your art fails, make better art.
- Seth Godin
The Benefits are about the Buyer’s stuff – what your products or services do for Buyers. Do the Benefits make them feel better about life – give them power; make them sexier, prettier, richer, more comfortable or secure, smarter, more competitive? Do they save time, money, fear or hassle?
- Jerry Vass
A good startup should have the potential for great scale built into its first design.
- Peter Thiel
The first thing I would do for anyone who’s trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.
- Timothy Ferriss
I want to own the New York Jets, that’s what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
- Zig Ziglar
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
- Andrew Carnegie
Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE, THE PRODUCTS, AND THE PROFITS—IN THAT ORDER.
- Ben Horowitz
Believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
- Seth Godin
I love to learn but I do not want to be taught.
- Winston Churchill
I was afraid of the internet… because I couldn’t type.
- Jack Welch
There are two ways to grow: by stealing from the competition or by growing the market. The first path is slow and painful and difficult. The second path is where the magic of fast growth kicks in.
- Seth Godin
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure
- Abraham Lincoln
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
It’s better to be a pirate than to join the navy.
- Steve Jobs
You learn more in failure than you ever do in success.
- Jay-Z
I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.
- Sara Blakely
I don’t know what would have happened if we hadn’t won that AOL deal
- Sergey Brin
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
- Walt Disney
This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
- James C. Collins
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.
- Bill Gates
Lost time is never found again.
- Benjamin Franklin
President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.
- Harold Hamm
People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
- Elon Musk
I think it’s fair to say that our distribution system today is the envy certainly of everyone in our industry, and in alot of others as well…We’ve spend almost $700 million builing up the current computer and satellite systems we have….You can’t generate sales unless you have the product there when the customer wants it.The math is pretty simple: if we both sell the same goods for the same price at retail, we’ll earn 2.5 percent more profit than they will right there.
- Sam Walton
If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.
- Bill Gates
Progress really is possible.
- Michael Bloomberg
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
- Bill Gates
It’s Almost Impossible to Overinvest in Becoming the Market Leader.
- Seth Godin
If plan A” fails — remember you have 25 letters left.
- Chris Guillebeau
Many of America’s and New York’s sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
- Michael Bloomberg
Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.
- Joel Olsteen
A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
- Donald Trump
You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
- John C. Maxwell
Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.
- Richard Branson
Companies are like countries in this way. Bad decisions made early on—if you choose the wrong partners or hire the wrong people, for example—are very hard to correct after they are made. It may take a crisis on the order of bankruptcy before anybody will even try to correct them. 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
There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
- Andrew Carnegie
A good culture is like the old RIP routing protocol: Bad news travels fast. Good news travels slow.
- Ben Horowitz
We should remember it wasn’t so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.
- Michael Bloomberg
Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.
- Zig Ziglar
