Don’t confuse selling with art.
- Jack Taylor
Notable Quotables
The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.
- Zig Ziglar
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
- Napoleon Hill
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
- Benjamin Franklin
The focus is on the future.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Humility is becoming a lost art, but it’s not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.
- Harvey Mackay
Ebooks had to happen.
- Jeff Bezos
The S.A.L.H. were mostly South Africans, with a high proportion of hardbitten adventurers from all quarters of the world, including a Confederate trooper from the American Civil War.
- Winston Churchill
Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.
- Wang Jianlin
In business, equilibrium means stasis, and stasis means death.
- Peter Thiel
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
- Bill Gates
I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.
- Donald Trump
In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it’s not the only place to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. [Silicon Valley] is a little short-term focused and that bothers me.
- Mark Zuckerberg
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
I want to help people to help themselves, which is much more valuable for both sides than just making a donation. By training the child of a farmer you compound the value of that dollar spent on training since that child will now help their parents. This is the multiplier effect. There’s no point in just feeding them or just giving them money.
- Lee Shau Kee
We should be able to significantly improve health-care outcomes. The government is needing that. When you look at ACOs [accountable care organizations] and look at what the Obama administration is talking about, in trying to improve quality, that’s exactly what Express Scripts does.
- George Paz
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
- Andrew Carnegie
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
“High expectations are the key to everything.”
- Sam Walton
I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it’s really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.
- Steven Spielberg
So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.
- Peter Drucker
That’s one of our biggest challenges – getting the people to the product immediately in a consistent way.
- Jack Dorsey
The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.
- Mark Zuckerberg
I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
- Dale Carnegie
The battle is all over except the ‘shouting’ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
- Napoleon Hill
If you don’t plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.
- Zig Ziglar
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Your network is your net worth.
- Porter Gale
Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?
- Marshall Bruce Mathers III
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
The future of the world’s film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.
- Wang Jianlin
If you can dream it, you can do it. -Walt Disney
- Walt Disney
The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
- Timothy Ferriss
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
- Evan Esar
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
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
- James C. Collins
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
- Steve Wozniak
People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Olsteen
God wouldn’t have given you the dream unless He already had a way to bring it to pass.
- Joel Olsteen
To connect with people in a group, connect with them as individuals.
- John Maxwell
Although DJ Clay may never sleep, all of his dreams come true!
- Blake Fraley
Perfect target market for a startup is a small group of particular.
- Peter Thiel
There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
- Henry Ford
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
- Napoleon Hill
Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
- Albert Einstein
It’s not always easy to get over some of those bumps in the road, those disillusionments and disappointments. It’s going to take a strong will. Sometimes, it may take courage. Sometimes nothing but faith in God and say, I refuse to be trapped in the past. I’m not going to let the past destroy my future. I’m pressing on. I’m straining forward, knowing that God has great things in store for me.
- Joel Olsteen
I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.
- Warren Buffett
Enforce functional training by withholding new employee requisitions. As Andy Grove writes, there are only two ways for a manager to improve the output of an employee: motivation and training. Therefore, training should be the most basic requirement for all managers in your organization. An effective way to enforce this requirement is by withholding new employee requisitions from managers until they’ve developed a training program for the TBH, “To Be Hired.”
- Ben Horowitz
Your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room.
- Jeff Bezos
Everybody has a product to sell.
- Peter Thiel
I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn’t increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.
- Seth Godin
You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.
- Elon Musk
If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it’s much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.
- George Soros
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
- Oprah Winfrey
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident…. Almost none of my inventions were derived in that manner. They were achieved by having trained myself to be analytical and to endure and tolerate hard work.
- Thomas Edison
I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.
- Joel Olsteen
Hewlett Packard Chairman Built Company by Design, Calculator by Chance.
- James C. Collins
The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
- Wang Jianlin
95% financing arrangement offered by Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited in a period of sustained low interest have added impetus to secondary trading activities in the property market.
- Lee Shau Kee
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership—not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.
- Ronald Reagan
Foreplay, cuddling – a Jedi craves not these things.
- Yoda
You should focus relentlessly on something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.
- Peter Thiel
Hong Kong has remained a strong financial centre. It has a solid business environment and geographically, it is well located, being next to China. During this time, there is no city that can match it.
- Lee Shau Kee
That which becomes acceptable becomes inevitable.
- Michael Levine
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for “dead end” ) … is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes.
- Seth Godin
After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa’s greatest industrialist.
- Aliko Dangote
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
- John D. Rockefeller
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
- Napoleon Hill
We’d like to believe that efficient, useful, cost-effective products and services are the way to succeed. That hard work is its own reward. Most marketers carry around a worldview that describes themselves as innovators, not storytellers.
- Seth Godin
the expression one wears on one’s face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one’s back
- Dale Carnegie
Pick a movement. Pick a revolution. And join it.
- Jack Dorsey
Over the course of your career, your Detroit will surely call you at one point or another. If you can go, that’s great. If you can’t, make peace with the reasons why.
- Jack Welch
Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines wont make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa and its about getting a balance.
- Richard Branson
[In February 2011 on Square.] Starting a startup after twitter is so much easier than before.
- Jack Dorsey
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
- Napoleon Hill
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
- Dale Carnegie
Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
- P.T. Barnum
You cannot play with fire.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
I believe in that Old Chinese Proverb, When the student is willing, the teacher appears. But I would add, It also doesn’t hurt to be a little proactive about it.
- David Novak
It’s pretty chilly by southern California standards.
- Ed Clark
Finding security in mediocrity is an exhausting process. You can work only so many hours, fret only so much. Being a slightly better typist or a slightly faster coder is insufficient. You’re always looking over your shoulder, always trying to be a little less mediocre than the guy next to you. It wears you out.
- Seth Godin
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
You can either endure the difficult or do the difficult.
- Michael Levine
Through the wisdom of its government leaders and the entrepreneurship of its private sector, India has rapidly risen to become a major force in the global economy, … Cisco believes that the Internet, and related technologies, will be a key enabler for India to achieve its goal of becoming a developed nation.
- John Chambers
Everybody understands the market in this area is consolidating.
- John Chambers
In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.
- Howard Schultz
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.
- John C. Maxwell
If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?
- Timothy Ferriss
Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don’t know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
- Sam Walton
We can’t wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constituencies and do everything they can to demonstrate confidence in the economy, and I think that can be contagious.
- Howard Schultz
A change is as good as a rest.
- Winston Churchill
It’s hard to make a living when you are in school…
- Michael Dell
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
- Elon Musk
Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
- Zig Ziglar
The Group will be able to capture opportunities arising from the growth and integration of the two economies, and scale new heights in the years ahead.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Service for the Right Reasons: To Save the Whales, or Kill Them and Feed the Children? Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
