Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.
- Howard Schultz
Notable Quotables
The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.
- Timothy Ferriss
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
- Napoleon Hill
The buyer needs to talk at least 70% of the time.
- Clay Clark
When you have an understanding of how someone else lives, the less likely it is that you conflict with them.
- Jack Dorsey
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.
- Jack London
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
- Henry Ford
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
- Oprah Winfrey
God can take what was meant for my harm and turn it around and use it to my advantage.
- Joel Olsteen
I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.
- Joel Olsteen
I don’t think there’s a… boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.
- Bill Gates
It’s different when you’re trying to turn something around, especially something that you built, at a time when so many constituents – the media, Wall Street, competitors, ex-employees – are all saying that Starbucks’s best days are behind it, and that Schultz is never going to be able to bring it back.
- Howard Schultz
Live creatively, friends. . . . Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others” (Galatians 6:1, 4).
- Zig Ziglar
[On Twitter] This company is bigger than any individual.
- Jack Dorsey
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others.
- Dale Carnegie
When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
- Jack Ma
We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
- Walt Disney
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
- Napoleon Hill
God always wants us to be growing.
- Joel Olsteen
New customers are silver…loyal customers are gold.
- Anonymous
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn’t dramatic.
- Ray Dalio
He will give you strength for every battle, wisdom for every decision, peace that passes understanding. God will vindicate you for the wrongs that have been done. He will pay you back for unfair situations. He promised He will not only bring your dreams to pass but He will give you even the secret desires of your heart. Dare to trust Him. Come back to that place of peace. Quit being worried, stressed out, wondering if it will happen. God has you in the palm of His hand. He has never once failed before, and the good news is He is not about to start now.
- Joel Olsteen
On engagement, we’re already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They’re more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.
- Mark Zuckerberg
You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.
- Reid Hoffman
“High expectations are the key to everything.”
- Sam Walton
Today, Andy Quinn pitched a great game finally, and that’s what he’s capable of. He fell behind a few hitters, but he got stronger as he went on.
- Jack Taylor
More than that, internal peace is what enables a startup to survive at all. When a startup fails, we often imagine it succumbing to predatory rivals in a competitive ecosystem. But every company is also its own ecosystem, and factional strife makes it vulnerable to outside threats. Internal conflict is like an autoimmune disease: the technical cause of death may be pneumonia, but the real cause remains hidden from plain view.
- Peter Thiel
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
- George Soros
We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Don’t ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
- Wang Jianlin
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
- Zig Ziglar
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
- Walt Disney
If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
- Bill Gates
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
- Oprah Winfrey
If salespeople don’t probe well for background information, they don’t know how to launch the presentation.
- Jerry Vass
Talent is God-given, be humble. Fame is man-given, be thankful. Conceit is self-given, be careful.
- Harvey Mackay
Every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside.
- Peter Thiel
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
- Warren Buffett
When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.
- Zig Ziglar
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
If you want to increase your success rate, double your rate of failure.
- Thomas J Watson
You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
- Yoda
Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation.
- Peter Drucker
In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Read the Bible, it is your roadmap through life.
- George Foreman
Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous.
- Peter Thiel
How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is let’s make this a true land of opportunity.
- Laurene Powell Jobs
Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.
- Joel Olsteen
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
- Zig Ziglar
I love doing a lot of things I’m told I can’t do. I think that’s what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
There is tremendous stress these days on liking people, helping people, getting along with people, as qualifications for a manager. These alone are never enough. In every successful organization there is one boss who does not like people, who does not help them, and who does not get along with them. Cold, unpleasant, demanding, he often teaches and develops more men than anyone else. He commands more respect than the most likable man ever could. He demands exacting workmanship of himself as well as of his men. He sets high standards and expects that they will be lived up to. He considers only what is right and never who is right. And though often himself a man of brilliance, he never rates intellectual brilliance above integrity in others. The manager who lacks these qualities of character—no matter how likable, helpful, or amiable, no matter even how competent or brilliant—is a menace and should be adjudged “unfit to be a manager and a gentleman.
- Peter Drucker
[On Howard White] Rather than say to young people that they should have a goal and focus on it, he reverses it: ‘Any road will get you there if you don’t know where you’re going.’ Most often, on reflection, you will grow to understand that what had passed for a funny commnet of the moment has a good deal of wisdom behind it.
- Phil Knight
My parents got one bedroom, my three sisters got the other bedroom, and my brother and I made do with a rollaway in the kitchen.
- David Green
If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
- Bill Gates
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
- Winston Churchill
I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
- Bill Gates
You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we’ve come up with doing that is through companies.
- Larry Page
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we’re not wise enough to see it.
- Oprah Winfrey
We won’t change at all, … We feel consolidation will continue. We’re seeing more and more movement to fewer networking vendors.
- John Chambers
Stories let us lie to ourselves. And those lies satisfy our desires.
- Seth Godin
God can do what humanoids cannot.
- Clay Clark
If you look – look at – I mean, look at what’s going on with your gasoline prices. They’re going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don’t have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, ‘Fellas, it’s time. It’s over. You’re not going to do it anymore.’
- Donald Trump
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Approach each customer with the idea of helping them solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.
- Brian Tracy
We were guerilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit.
- Phil Knight
Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical.
- Stephen Wynn
Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
- Bill Gates
I’ve got to confess I’m a pragmatic optimist myself.
- Zig Ziglar
If you can get just one distribution channel to work, you have a great business. If you try for several but don’t nail one, you’re finished.
- Peter Thiel
Every leader’s potential is determined by the people closest to him. No matter what I did with that staff, they would never be able to take the organization to the place we needed to go.
- Napoleon Hill
I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don’t want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. We must maintain a value proposition to our customers as well as differentiate the Starbucks Experience. That is the key.
- Howard Schultz
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
- Steve Jobs
They need to avoid coming at us head-on, and do their own thing better than we do ours. It doesn’t make any sense to try to underprice Walmart on something like toothpaste. That’s not what they customer is looking to a small store for anyway. Most independents are best off, I think, doing what I prided myself on doing for many years as a storekeeper, getting out front on the door and meeting everyone of the customers. Let them know how much you appreciate them, and that register yourself. That little personal touch is so important for an independent merchant because no matter how hard Walmart tries to duplicate, ad we try awfully hard, we can’t really do it.
- Sam Walton
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters – to make them personalities.
- Walt Disney
I haven’t failed,I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- Zig Ziglar
In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
- Bill Gates
This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
- John D. Rockefeller
If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you’ll develop skills that other professionals don’t have.
- Steve Wozniak
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.
- Warren Buffett
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
I am a self-made brat.
- Stephen Wynn
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
- Walt Disney
If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.
- Pierre Omidyar
The ‘Billionaire’ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.
- Bill Gates
If You Want to Gather Honey, Don’t Kick Over the Beehive.
- Dale Carnegie
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
- Napoleon Hill
Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.
- Buddha
Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.
- Warren Buffett
When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.
- Winston Churchill
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
- Zig Ziglar
Personally, I think the failure to really kind of get his arms around this company and this industry led to confusion on behalf of the management team. And I didn’t see that getting any better.
- Phil Knight
I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‘There’s nothing good in my future’ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.
- Joel Olsteen
One incident preserved by General Ismay in an apocryphal and somewhat lively form may be allowed to lighten the narrative. His orderly, a Royal Marine, was shown the sights of Moscow by one of the Intourist guides. “This,” said the Russian, “is the Eden Hotel, formerly Ribbentrop Hotel. Here is Churchill Street, formerly Hitler Street. Here is the Beaverbrook railway station, formerly Goering railway station. Will you have a cigarette, comrade?” The Marine replied, “Thank you, comrade, formerly bastard!” This tale, though jocular, illustrates none the less the strange atmosphere of these meetings.
- Winston Churchill
What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
- Winston Churchill
I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off on a tangent that’s inspired by a response.
- Steve Martin
Every pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, but every optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
