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
Notable Quotables
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter Drucker
When you have a dream that you can’t let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you’re willing to do that.
- Harvey Mackay
Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
- Ron Chernow
There’s a difference between telling people what to do and inciting a movement.
- Seth Godin
The Bible says, See that none of you repays another evil for evil, but always aim to show kindness and seek to do good to one another and to everybody.
- Joel Olsteen
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gaining confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control. They’re in the control.
- Tom Landry
I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
- Seth Godin
The commercial segment produced the best results.
- John Chambers
Is it really necessary to work like a slave to live like a millionaire?
- Timothy Ferriss
Sustaining faith is what sets you through those dark nights of the soul when you don’t know where to go or what to do, and it seems that you can’t last another day…but because of your faith in God, you do.
- Joel Olsteen
In my experience, an effective mission statement basically answers one question: How do we intend to win in this business?
- Jack Welch
Our business practices are no different than those of our competitors, but we are bigger, and thus more visible, so we get more flack.
- Phil Knight
Be a coach, instead of being a boss. Rather than tell people what to do, a leader helps team members figure it out for themselves. That way, when it’s time for them to take the training wheels off, they’ll have some experience to draw on. That’s the way it was with me and Andy. We were working together, I felt like I was making all the decisions even though he had the title
- David Novak
After the decline in the past few years, the worst moment in the economy of Hong Kong is now behind us. The local property market is expected to show a steady upward trend as from this point.
- Lee Shau Kee
What you are will show in what you do.
- Thomas Edison
The customer reaction to Dell going private has been a lot more positive than I would have ever imagined. Customers see it as – ‘You don’t have to be distracted. Now you can totally focus on your business.’ So they see it as a positive.
- Michael Dell
Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.
- Howard Schultz
Buda dijo: El odio nunca es vencido por el odio sino por el amor, y un malentendido no termina nunca gracias una discusión sino gracias al tacto, la diplomacia, la conciliación, y un sincero deseo de apreciar el punto de vista de los demás.
- Dale Carnegie
Kickstarter isn’t a profit center, it’s an organizer and an instigator.
- Seth Godin
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
I now eat four Brazil nuts and one tablespoon of almond butter first thing upon waking.
- Timothy Ferriss
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
- Og Mandino
He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
- P.T. Barnum
Just as ships are built to sail the seas and planes to fly the heavens, so is man created for a purpose.
- Zig Ziglar
In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.
- Aliko Dangote
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them….
- Thomas Edison
Since most people have not been taught how to make mistakes and learn from them, they either avoid making mistakes altogether, which is a bigger mistake, or they make a mistake but fail to find the lesson from the mistakes.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simply. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out, the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish, the other selfish. One is universally admired, the other universally condemned.
- Dale Carnegie
The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places,
- Peter Thiel
Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
- Bill Gates
If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.
- Elon Musk
There is only one excuse for a speaker’s asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
- Dale Carnegie
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
- Thomas Edison
In the world of education, the more mistakes a person makes, the less intelligent that person is thought to be. In the world of entrepreneurship, mistakes are opportunities to learn something new, something not known previously. In the world of entrepreneurship, the more mistakes a person makes, the more a person learns. There is a bit of magic in every mistakes, so when you make mistakes, take the time to learn from them, and you’ll have more magic in your life.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Disruptive companies often pick fights they can’t win.
- Peter Thiel
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
- Dale Carnegie
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Dale Carnegie
Self-control – the man who cannot control himself can never control others. Self-control sets a mighty example for one’s followers, which the more intelligent will emulate.
- Napoleon Hill
The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.
- William Gibson
The secret of happiness is renunciation.
- Andrew Carnegie
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
- Elon Musk
Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.
- Donald Trump
People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult.
- Alexei Mordashov
In the old days, Hong Kong was undeveloped, coming from a low base. Now it is on a high base, making it difficult to earn high multiples. We will certainly diversify out of Hong Kong and out of property. [On being asked where?] I don’t know. I haven’t found it yet.
- Lee Shau Kee
At the end of the day, I guess my feeling is that it was sort of a failure to communicate.
- Phil Knight
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
- Richard Branson
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
- Winston Churchill
Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.
- Harvey Mackay
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
- Rupert Murdoch
I love art, I love design, and I love seeing that intersection of technology and the teams that work on it.
- Jack Dorsey
I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.
- Joel Olsteen
A man should never neglect his family business.
- Walt Disney
Disruption is like an earthquake. Disruption has no purpose. It has not values. It has no organizing principle. It has no direction and it has no leadership… This is not what we want to bring into the world. What we want to bring into the world is revolution.
- Jack Dorsey
Only by believing in and looking for secrets could you see beyond the convention to an opportunity hidden in plain sight.
- Peter Thiel
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
- Henry Ford
Most GE business leaders now have digital cockpits on their computer screens that update in real time all the important data to help them manager their businesses.
- Jack Welch
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
- Napoleon Hill
Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
- Confucius
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
Results are gained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
- Peter Drucker
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
- Andrew Carnegie
Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.
- John C. Maxwell
We thought we ought to put that in because it’s the truth but the (like-for-like) number even with those factors taken into account is still very disappointing.
- Simon Wolfson
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean, if a few drops of ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
- Wang Jianlin
I may be over the top on this, but I just don’t want to like my competitors. I want my people to believe that whenever he and our other competitors succeed, we will be less able to do all the things we want to do.
- Phil Knight
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
- Warren Buffett
Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
- Og Mandino
No leader enjoys making the tough decision. We constantly faced severe resistence from even the best people in our organization. I’ve struggled with this problem myself and have often been guilty of not being rigorous enough. Every impulse is to look the other way.
- Jack Welch
In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.
- Harvey Mackay
Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.
- Peter Thiel
Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
- Donald Trump
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
- Oprah Winfrey
I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
- Harry Truman
If you complain you will remain, if you praise you will be raised.
- Joel Olsteen
Remember: There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.
- Timothy Ferriss
A good startup should have the potential for great scale built into its first design.
- Peter Thiel
The future is sooner and stranger than you think.
- Reid Hoffman
The Chinese people have always been determined to forge ahead.
- Cheng Yu-tung
I had learned that for any big idea you had to sell, sell, sell to move the needle at all.
- Jack Welch
The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don’t know.
- Seth Godin
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn’t affect them.
- Azim Premji
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
If salespeople don’t probe well for background information, they don’t know how to launch the presentation.
- Jerry Vass
We’ve got to lift our game tremendously. We’ll sell our business news and information in print, we’ll sell it to anyone who’s got a cable system, and we’ll sell it on the Web.
- Rupert Murdoch
We know more about the physics of faraway stars than we know about human nutrition.
- Peter Thiel
Effort is grossly underrated.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
A company has a monopoly on its own brand by definition, so creating a strong brand is a powerful way to claim a monopoly.
- Peter Thiel
If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.
- Elon Musk
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake.
- James C. Collins
Microsoft’s an important partner for Dell, an important company in the industry.
- Michael Dell
Xiaomi looks a bit like Apple but is really more like Amazon with some elements of Google.
- Lei Jun
To boil water, the MED is 212°F (100°C) at standard air pressure. Boiled is boiled. Higher temperatures will not make it more boiled.” Higher temperatures just consume more resources that could be used for something else more productive.
- Timothy Ferriss
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
- Napoleon Hill
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
- Seth Godin
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
- P.T. Barnum
I’m a strange mixture of my mother’s curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother’s father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
- Rupert Murdoch
Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.
- Michael Bloomberg
