Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude.
- Zig Ziglar
Notable Quotables
It’s no surprise that these fields all attract disproportionate numbers of high-achieving Ivy League optionality chasers; what could be a more appropriate reward for two decades of résumé-building than a seemingly elite, process-oriented career that promises to “keep options open”?
- Peter Thiel
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Oprah Winfrey
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.
- Bill Gates
Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.
- John C. Maxwell
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
- Seth Godin
The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
- Bill Gates
If God says I’m highly favored, then I will not talk myself out of it. I believe I’m highly favored. If God says the impossible can happen, then I believe the impossible will happen.
- Joel Olsteen
I’m not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
- Rupert Murdoch
If you are going to be successful, you must develop persistence. How do you do that? It is not easily condensed in one simple statement, but one thing you can be sure of is that your must define your purpose.
- Zig Ziglar
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
The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I’m wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.
- Ray Dalio
When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that’s when passion is born.
- Zig Ziglar
Woody’s Allen’s great line about relationships. A relationship is like a shark, it either has to move forward or it dies. And that’s true about your company.
- Larry Ellison
Your faith will help you overcome your obstacles.
- Joel Olsteen
What’s important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn’t satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn’t right, or if the offerings aren’t right, it’s the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don’t get hung up on zeros.
- Jack Welch
I don’t believe in saturation. We’re thinking and talking worldwide.
- Ray Kroc
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Zig Ziglar
I don’t need you to be funny. I don’t want to be entertained.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Anyone who wants to change the world should be more humble.
- Peter Thiel
Success is a choice
- Napoleon Hill
I don’t want to kill ads. I think advertising is great, and I’m very aware that there’s multiple revenue streams in television, subscription and advertising. But I also don’t want to put my head in the sand, and I think the world is changing.
- Charles Ergen
So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.
- Peter Drucker
Networking is one of the most powerful tools you can use to grow your company and reputation.
- Business Insider.com
When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.
- Joel Olsteen
Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
- Larry Ellison
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes.
- P.T. Barnum
Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That’s the fundamental thing.
- Ben Horowitz
Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.
- Joel Olsteen
Success is one thing you can’t pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments every day.
- Zig Ziglar
I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.
- Larry Ellison
Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business.
- Harvey Mackay
We are interested in any sector with good growth potential.
- Dhanin Chearavanont
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
- Ben Horowitz
It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.
- Russell Simmons
Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
- Howard Schultz
The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.
- Robin Li
The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.
- Donald Trump
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you’ve got somebody who’s raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give ’em that shot.
- Jack Welch
That’s one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That’s a huge advantage. I must tell you, that’s a huge advantage over the other candidates.
- Donald Trump
My advice for an entrepreneur just starting out is to differentiate yourself. Why are you different? What’s important about you? Why does the customer need you?
- Sara Blakely
I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
- Jeff Bezos
People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
- Elon Musk
A riot is the language of the unheard.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
For those that have fixed exchange-rate regimes, you will need a greater amount of foreign reserves. That’s the case in Belize, it’s the case in the Eastern Caribbean zone and it’s also the case in Barbados. In those cases, the level of reserve coverage is one of credit weakness. Where you have a bit more flexibility in the exchange rate ? for instance, Jamaica ? you would require a smaller amount of international reserves.
- John Chambers
I have to be ever vigilant to remain open to other people’s points of view. Just because I’m enthusiastic doesn’t necessarily mean I’m right. I have to always keep the doors open for honest communication or I could enthusiastically lead everyone right over the cliff.
- David Novak
We need to reinvent food at Starbucks. Less could be more.
- Howard Schultz
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
- Ben Horowitz
I have a list of the hardest, most challenging problems that our company needs to solve and I start at the top and work my way down. And I have a list of the coolest most fascinating things that we can invent and I start at the top of the list and I work my way down.
- Travis Kalanick
Resposibility is the price of greatness.
- Winston Churchill
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Every noteworthy achievement met with some sort of temporary setback before success came.
- Napoleon Hill
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.
- Steve Martin
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
- Dale Carnegie
Our improvement and innovative ideas have never been hindered by our proven record, which instead has paved the way for determined, practical development and new directions.
- Cheng Yu-tung
I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
- Joel Olsteen
Always keep our eyes open for people with potential.
- John Maxwell
We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don’t decide for you.
- Larry Ellison
mean that you can’t do anything else but pray. But it does mean that you are always ready and willing to go before God with any concern or praise. Nothing is too small or too big for prayer. Prayer is simply opening your heart and connecting with God. It’s taking His promises and applying them to your life. Prayer processes the plan of God. You should bathe your life in prayer. Pray for wisdom, peace, and patience. Pray for your relationships, your job, and your children. Pray for your country and leaders. Pray with others, knowing that when two or more are gathered in His name, He is there.
- Joel Olsteen
Freedom does not come automatically, it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound
- Rollo May
Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.
- Bill Gates
People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.
- Ben Horowitz
The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
- Seth Godin
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
- Timothy Ferriss
You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.
- Steve Case
What I know for sure is that if you want success, you can’t make success your goal. The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead work toward being significant, and the success will naturally follow.”
- Oprah Winfrey
I love the presentation from the more flamboyant guy, who excitedly presents his plans.
- Jack Welch
Marriot does not own the hotels, they market and run the real estate, they run the business
- John Kluken
If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.
- Bill Gates
I like the word ‘autopilot’ more than I like the word ‘self-driving.’ ‘Self-driving’ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‘Autopilot’ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.
- Elon Musk
One definition of hope is happy anticipation of something good.
- Joel Olsteen
Never allow anyone to get between you and your customers and suppliers.
- Jack Welch
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, and do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
The great news is that God knows everything about you, both good and bad, and He still loves you and values you unconditionally. God does not always approve of our behavior. He is not pleased when we go against his will, and when we do, we always suffer the consequences and have to work with Him to correct our thoughts, words, actions, or attitudes. And while you should work to improve in the areas where you fall short, nothing you do will ever cause God to love you less…or more. His love is a constant you can depend on.
- Joel Olsteen
It is a well known fact that Henry Ford began his business career under the handicap of poverty, illiteracy, and ignorance. It is an equally well known fact that, within the inconceivably short period of ten years, Mr. Ford mastered these three handicaps, and that within twenty-five years he made himself one of the richest men in America. Connect with this fact, the additional knowledge that Mr. Ford’s most rapid strides became noticeable, from the time he became a personal friend of Thomas A. Edison, and you will begin to understand what the influence of one mind upon another can accomplish.
- Napoleon Hill
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
- Bill Gates
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
- Peter Drucker
Today a grand plan coming from a schoolteacher would be dismissed as crankery, and a long-range vision coming from anyone more powerful would be derided as hubris.
- Peter Thiel
Education and the Internet must go hand in hand, … It will serve as one of the great equalizers.
- John Chambers
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
- Wayne Gretzky
This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us the latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.
- Mark Zuckerberg
A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate
- Seth Godin
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
- Jeff Bezos
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
the Mach3—leaving hundreds of millions of people to a more painful daily battle with stubble.19
- James C. Collins
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent’s good will.
- Dale Carnegie
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
- Napoleon Hill
It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.
- Steve Jobs
I ask every participant to think about who their personal business mentors have been and why. I tell them my own business hero was Andy Pearson and I give them a few Andy stories to illustrate why. Then we break into groups of about twenty to go around in a circle and have each person talk about the person who has mean the most to him…We reconvene in the larger group and discuss some of the traits that were exhibited by the mentors; integrity, passion, inspiration, a positive outlook, and so on. A lot of people said it was someone who, helped me realize what I could achieve or really cared about me as a person. Then I try to get them to go a little deeper. I say, Now suppose that you were a fly on the wall, looking down on this room ten years from now. What would you like people to be saying about you? How would you feel if someone were saying that you were the person who had the greatest impact on his or her professional life?
- David Novak
Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.
- Joel Olsteen
Successful people think on paper.
- Brian Tracy
I try to help people with management stuff a lot.
- Ben Horowitz
greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.
- James C. Collins
Competition is a sin.
- John D. Rockefeller
You hit what you aim at, and if you aim at nothing you will hit it every time.
- Zig Ziglar
BLAMING IDIOTS FOR interruptions is like blaming clowns for scaring children—they can’t help it. It’s their nature. Then again, I had (who am I kidding—and have), on occasion, been known to create interruptions out of thin air. If you’re anything like me, that makes us both occasional idiots. Learn to recognize and fight the interruption impulse. This is infinitely easier when you have a set of rules, responses, and routines to follow.
- Timothy Ferriss
Never blindside an employee by firing them without warning.
- Clay Clark
