Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
- Vagit Alekperov
Notable Quotables
What did I do that was right—and in what way could I have improved my performance? What lessons can I learn from that experience?
- Dale Carnegie
The ultimate goal for a business owner is to build a company that he or she can one day sell, continue to scale, or even own passively. Most business owners reach for growth by working harder and personally trying to produce more. This is a flawed model that at best will lead to only moderate growth. At worst this strategy can literally put your entire company at risk.
- Jeff Hoffman
Its obvious that we don’t know one millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas Edison
Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed through practical plans of action…Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when and if it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
- Napoleon Hill
The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.
- Bill Gates
There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.
- Henry Sy
At the end, the acquisition of wealth is ignoble in the extreme. I assume that you save and long for wealth only as a means of enabling you the better to do some good in your day and generation.
- Andrew Carnegie
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we’re a long, long ways from that.
- Larry Page
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Zig Ziglar
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill
[As a child] I would just question things…
- Elon Musk
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
- Bill Gates
If Jesus were here today, he wouldn’t be riding around on a donkey. He’d be taking a plane, he’d be using the media.
- Joel Olsteen
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
- John D. Rockefeller
Every other country is afraid that China is going to take over the world. China is the only country afraid that it won’t.
- Peter Thiel
Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.
- Zig Ziglar
Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
- Bill Gates
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Anatole France
The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.
- Zig Ziglar
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
- Seth Godin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
At Uniqlo, we’re thinking ahead. We’re thinking about how to create new, innovative products… and sell that to everyone.
- Tadashi Yanai
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
- Zig Ziglar
I think failure is nothing more than life’s way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
- Sara Blakely
Transparency in the traditional school might destroy it.
- Seth Godin
Owners don’t fire all the players. They fire the leader and bring in someone they hope the players will buy into.
- Napoleon Hill
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
- Warren Buffett
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.
- John C. Maxwell
When an employee asks why the company does things a certain way, and you can explain the logical reason, then the employee knows what she’s doing is valid.
- Harvey Mackay
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people’s lives.
- Oprah Winfrey
I’m a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
- Donald Trump
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
- Ben Horowitz
If I have seen further it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
- Sir Isaac Newton
The moment a leader allows himself to become the primary reality people worry about, rather than reality being the primary reality, you have a recipe for mediocrity, or worse. This is one of the key reasons why less charismatic leaders often produce better long-term results than their more charismatic counterparts.
- James C. Collins
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
- Zig Ziglar
I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
- Elon Musk
I didn’t invent the hamburger. I just took it more seriously than anyone else…We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
- Ray Kroc
It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
- Jack Welch
Why do I need succession planning? I’m very alert, I’m very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
- Sheldon Adelson
It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
- Warren Buffett
Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
- Bill Gates
In short, I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
- Dale Carnegie
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises that the listeners do not perceive.
- Thomas Edison
About half of our wives do not work outside the home. The number-one occupation for those wives who do work is teacher.
- Thomas J Stanley
ZERO TO ONE EVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.
- Peter Thiel
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
- Seth Godin
If you don’t have ambition, you should not be alive.
- Aliko Dangote
To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.
- John C. Maxwell
We have the best flat land, you can grow anything in the cheapest possible way; turning Nigeria around is not really that difficult. Nigeria is really the best place to invest, it is one of the places to make money; all over the world it (Nigeria) is the best kept secret actually in terms of investment.
- Aliko Dangote
Other people do not determine your potential.
- Joel Olsteen
If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.
- Bill Gates
I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.
- Joel Olsteen
God created you to leave your mark on this generation. You have gifts and talents that you have not tapped into. There are new levels of your destiny still in front of you. But break out starts in your thinking. As you put these keys into action, making room for increase, expecting shifts of God’s favor, praying bold prayers, and keeping the right perspective, then God will release floods of His goodness that will thrust you beyond barriers of the past into the extraordinary life you were designed to live.
- Joel Olsteen
Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
- Bill Gates
The world has changed – through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it’s ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it’s kind of hard now. The technology, the science – it’s like, are you kidding? We’re in the golden years of wine!
- Gary Vaynerchuk
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE, THE PRODUCTS, AND THE PROFITS—IN THAT ORDER.
- Ben Horowitz
The secret to being wrong isn’t to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn’t fatal.
- Seth Godin
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
I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.
- Joel Olsteen
Learn to say No to the good so that you can say Yes to your best.
- John Maxwell
It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
- Winston Churchill
Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.
- Zig Ziglar
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don’t keep score.
- Harvey Mackay
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
- Seth Godin
The industry growth is there, and it’s there probably for the next decade. So how well we execute will determine what role we play.
- John Chambers
I don’t know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.
- James C. Collins
I’ve always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they’re just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
- Steve Martin
I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.
- Donald Trump
Twitter is about simplicity.
- Jack Dorsey
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
- Walter Lippmann
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The abundance mindset makes it easier to be graceful.
- Seth Godin
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.
- Tony Robbins
In the Networked Age, we’re all like the little kid from The Sixth Sense. If you’re not seeing networks when you enter a room, you might want to check your pulse.
- Reid Hoffman
Sometimes I look out there and I get goosebumps…
- Phil Knight
The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
The most valuable companies in the future won’t ask what problems can be solved with computers alone. Instead, they’ll ask: how can computers help humans solve hard problems?
- Peter Thiel
By the end of the war (the civil war) John D. Rockefeller had established the foundations of his personal and professional life and was set to capitalize on the extraordinary opportunities beckoning him in postwar America. From this point forward, there would be no zigzags, or squandered energy, only a single-minded focus on objectives that would make him both the wonder and terror of American business.
- Ron Chernow
If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
- Richard Branson
You can’t be in neutral and hope to reach your full potential.
- Joel Olsteen
I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
- Russell Simmons
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value….
- Thomas Edison
Confidence in our own independence of mind. But advertising doesn’t exist to make you buy a product right away, it exists to embed subtle impressions that will drive sales later. Anyone who can’t acknowledge its likely effect on himself is doubly deceived.
- Peter Thiel
If you end your training now — if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did — you will become an agent of evil.
- Yoda
When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you’re allowing that person to control you.
- Joel Olsteen
You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.
- Oprah Winfrey
In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
- Mark Zuckerberg
High expectations are the key to everything.
- Sam Walton
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that’s really powerful.
- Reid Hoffman
If you have any more than three priorities, you have no priorities.
- Maggie Fox
I would call lack of candor the biggest dirty little secret in business, basically blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they’ve got. It’s a killer.
- Jack Welch
I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.
- Bill Gates
And in urology, it could be drugs or devices for bladder and prostate problems.
- David Pyott
With sustained recovery of the local economy, marked improvement in consumer spending and increasing tourist arrivals from Mainland China, these led to the expansion of certain local retail trades including cosmetics, audio-visual products and jewellery which in turn boosted the demand for retail shop spaces.
- Lee Shau Kee
Do you ever worry’ asked Dale Carnegie, I replied: ‘No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?’
- Henry Ford
