I’d get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It’s a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.
- Sara Blakely
Notable Quotables
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
- Jeff Bezos
People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
- Azim Premji
The Internet economy continues to create unprecedented growth opportunities for people, companies and countries on a global basis.
- John Chambers
It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings.
- Sam Walton
What is school for? If you’re not asking that, you’re wasting time and money.
- Seth Godin
If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.
- Ben Horowitz
When you have one million dollars, you’re a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you’ve got trouble, a lot of headaches. When you have more than one billion dollars, or a hundred million dollars, that’s a responsibility you have – it’s the trust of people on you, because people believe you can spend money better than the others.
- Jack Ma
One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
- Rupert Murdoch
The most important rule of raising money privately: Look for a market of one. You only need one investor to say yes, so it’s best to ignore the other thirty who say “no.”
- Ben Horowitz
Either people challenge each other to the point where they don’t like each other or they become complacent about each other’s feedback and no longer benefit from the relationship.
- Ben Horowitz
Whether changes happen depends on people’s mind and view.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.
- Zig Ziglar
A kite flies against the wind, not with it.
- Winston Churchill
The world’s major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
- Tadashi Yanai
In this early period, Rockefeller was a chronic worrier who labored under a great deal of self-imposed stress. Though not versed in the scientific side of refining, he often excercised a direct managerial role in the plant. With fluctuating market conditions, he sometimes needed shipments to New York with great dispatch and personally rushed down to the railroad tracks to motivate the freight handlers. I shall never forget how hungry I was in those days. I stayed out of doors day and night; I ran up and down the tops of freight cars, when necessary; I hurried up the boys.
- Ron Chernow
Infrastructure web services had to happen.
- Jeff Bezos
Many of our best opportunities were created out of necessity. The things that we were forced to learn and do, because we started out underfinanced and undercapitalized in these remote small communities, contributed mightily to the way we’ve grown as a company. Had we been capitalized, or had we been the offshoot of a large corporation the way I wanted to be, we might not ever have tried…
- Sam Walton
People going nowhere want company.
- Brian Tracy
I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family that would have killed for each other – and we still are. x
- Richard Branson
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
- Seth Godin
Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing …
- Yoda
Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart.
- Joel Olsteen
Just saying you are better than good won’t make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.
- Zig Ziglar
Start believing today that things are going to change for the better. Your best days are still out in front of you.
- Joel Olsteen
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
- Henry Ford
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot.
- Paul Theroux
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
God, Family, Country.
- Zig Ziglar
Whatever you accept your employees will expect.
- Clifton Taulbert
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.
- Joel Olsteen
If you believe in quality, you can’t just tell everybody We believe in quality! You’ve got to pay bonuses based on quality. You’ve got to let everyone in the organization know that they are being judged on quality.
- Jack Welch
Pareto’s Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs results from 20% of the inputs.
- Timothy Ferriss
There is little success where there is little laughter.
- Andrew Carnegie
I’m on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.
- Reed Hastings
Fortune favors the bold.
- Virgil
Darwin Smith stands as a classic example of what we came to call a Level 5 leader—an individual who blends extreme personal humility with intense professional will.
- James C. Collins
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.
- Winston Churchill
Drucker said: ‘If you weren’t already in this business, would you enter it today? And if not, what are you going to do about it?’ … Simple, right? But incredibly powerful.
- Jack Welch
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
- Seth Godin
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
- Ben Horowitz
30 MAJOR CAUSES OF FAILURE: – Napoleon Hill (on leadership and management)
- Napoleon Hill
Ally yourself with a group of as many people as you may need for the creation and carrying out of your plan or plans for the accumulation of money…Compliance with this instruction is absolutely essential. Do not neglect it.
- Napoleon Hill
Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
- Russell Simmons
As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
- John C. Maxwell
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
- Henry Ford
College students can become extremely skilled at a few specialties, but many never learn what to do with those skills in the wider world.
- Peter Thiel
My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don’t recognize – and by people I’m meaning Washington – don’t recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don’t think this is a crisis anymore. I think it’s an emergency.
- Howard Schultz
Investing in courage and determination was an easy decision for me.
- Ben Horowitz
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
- Peter Drucker
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been
- Sam Walton
If you are a prospective entrepreneur with the desire to start and build a visionary company but have not yet taken the plunge because you don’t have a great idea,” we encourage you to lift from your shoulders the burden of the great-idea myth. Indeed, the evidence suggests that it might be better to not obsess on finding a great idea before launching a company. Why? Because the great-idea approach shifts your attention away from seeing the company as your ultimate creation.
- James C. Collins
The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers. If he tries to shift this responsibility he will not remain the leader. If one of his followers makes a mistake or proves to be incompetent, the leader must consider that it is he who failed.
- Napoleon Hill
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
Those whose work and pleasure are one… are… Fortune’s favoured children.
- Winston Churchill
Jesus was saying that you can’t have a larger life with restricted attitudes.
- Joel Olsteen
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
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
- Thomas Edison
I don’t know what would have happened if we hadn’t won that AOL deal
- Sergey Brin
Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.
- Timothy Ferriss
Life is not fair – get used to it!
- Bill Gates
It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.
- Bill Gates
If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
- Peter Thiel
When you start a company, it’s a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.
- Howard Schultz
The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
- Seth Godin
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
- Winston Churchill
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
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.
- Winston Churchill
To my mind the old masters are not art, their value is in their scarcity.
- Thomas Edison
I’m a catalyst for change. You can’t be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.
- Rupert Murdoch
New customers are silver…loyal customers are gold.
- Anonymous
Be factual. Lying is really, really a bad idea, mostly because they’ll find you out. And then you’ll never get another item in that outlet for as long as they remember you, which will be forever.
- Michael Levine
In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.
- Aliko Dangote
We believe the competitive and economic environment will remain very challenging in the year ahead. Whilst we think we have the opportunity to make improvements to some of our ranges, we are still budgeting on the basis of negative like-for-like retail sales for the year.
- Simon Wolfson
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy
Get your fire back.
- Joel Olsteen
The first three-and-a-half months of calendar year 2001 have been extremely challenging for many of us in high-tech.
- John Chambers
You’ve got to believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have what it takes. God created you to excel, and He’s given you ability, insight, talent, wisdom, and His supernatural power to do so.
- Joel Olsteen
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
Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
- Reed Hastings
A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.
- Herb Kelleher
I am amazed that CNN can’t get its act together.
- Rupert Murdoch
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
- Timothy Ferriss
Your margin is my opportunity.
- Jeff Bezos
A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
- Donald Trump
I am upset with the effect that both of these issues have had on the public,
- Michael Gerber
Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.
- Joel Olsteen
Through the Force, things you will see. Other places. The future…the past. Old friends long gone.
- Yoda
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
Remember the proverb of Solomon: “He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
- P.T. Barnum
You can expect the future to take a definite form or you can treat it as hazily uncertain. If you treat the future as something definite, it makes sense to understand it in advance and to work to shape it. But if you expect an indefinite future ruled by randomness, you’ll give up on trying to master it
- Peter Thiel
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Trust but Verify.
- Ronald Reagan
Hong Kong’s history of success is built on its flexibility in the ever-changing global economy.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Respect people’s wishes.
- Jack Dorsey
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy
When people write checks, they are depleting an asset. And when people are using credit cards, they are increasing their liabilities. In other words, credit cards make it so much easier to get deeper and deeper into debt by increasing your monthly liabilties.
- Robert Kiyosaki
I do not follow conventional wisdom.
- Phil Knight
