Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don’t focus on work or solving problems constantly.
- Harvey Mackay
Notable Quotables
Some things are much easier to see in others than in yourself
- Ben Horowitz
When you expect your employees to act like adults, they generally do. If you treat them like children, then get ready for your company to turn into one big Barney episode.
- Ben Horowitz
The biggest cowards are managers who don’t let people know where they stand.
- Jack Welch
Some people are so belligerent in their communication style that people just stop talking when they are in the room. If every time anyone brings up an issue with the marketing organization, the VP of marketing jumps down their throats, then guess what topic will never come up? This behavior can become so bad that nobody brings up any topic when the jerk is in the room. As a result, communication across the executive staff breaks down and the entire company slowly degenerates. Note that this only happens if the jerk in question is unquestionably brilliant. Otherwise, nobody will care when she attacks them. The bite only has impact if it comes from a big dog. If one of your big dogs destroys communication on your staff, you need to send her to the pound.
- Ben Horowitz
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
- Walt Disney
I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don’t know what I’ll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around … anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.
- Larry Ellison
I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
- Sam Walton
It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
- Larry Page
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don’t base your self-esteem on their opinions.
- Harvey Mackay
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Control has to be by feedback from the work done. The work itself has to provide the information. If it has to be checked all the time, there is no control.
- Peter Drucker
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
- Abraham Lincoln
There comes a time in every company’s life where it must fight for its life. If you find yourself running when you should be fighting, you need to ask yourself, “If our company isn’t good enough to win, then do we need to exist at all?
- Ben Horowitz
Here lies the body of William Jay, Who died maintaining his right of way – He was right, dead right, as he sped along, But he’s just as dead as if he were wrong.
- Dale Carnegie
In bad times and good, I have never lost my sense zest for life
- Walt Disney
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
- Sam Walton
If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.
- Dave Ramsey
Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
- Winston Churchill
You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It’s starting to really become a cool thing for young people.
- Russell Simmons
It’s lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for ‘realistic’ goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming.
- Timothy Ferriss
It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
- Warren Buffett
You may think there is a lot wrong with you, but there is also a lot right with you.
- Joel Olsteen
Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
- Larry Ellison
And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.
- Winston Churchill
Where I get my energy is: ‘How can I make it better?’
- Sara Blakely
The U.S. is talking about keeping interest rates near zero.
- Lee Shau Kee
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
- Walt Disney
It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it.
- Herb Kelleher
If the recipe sucks, it doesn’t matter how good a cook you are.
- Timothy Ferriss
People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
- Bill Gates
You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
- Carl Icahn
The good-to-great leaders never wanted to become larger-than-life heroes. They never aspired to be put on a pedestal or become unreachable icons. They were seemingly ordinary people quietly producing extraordinary results.
- James C. Collins
He was contradicting everything he’d taught us about not running sick and making it worse. I knew it was just to make me acknowledge that his word was law, no matter how arbitrary. But that didn’t make it any easier to take. I was so mad I ran a personal record.
- Phil Knight
Definite planning even went beyond the surface of this planet: NASA’s Apollo Program began in 1961 and put 12 men on the moon before it finished in 1972.
- Peter Thiel
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Mark Twain
The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They’ve become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.
- Azim Premji
It is equally important that diversification is an ongoing process.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure – the law firms, the real estate, all that – that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.
- Elon Musk
In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.
- Bill Gates
In my weekly staff meeting, I inserted an agenda item titled “What Are We Not Doing?
- Ben Horowitz
Happens to every guy sometimes this does.
- Yoda
The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.
- Bill Gates
You will never change what you tolerate.
- Joel Olsteen
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
- Elon Musk
Become meaningful in your interactions and the path to success in any endeavor is simpler and far more sustainable.
- Dale Carnegie
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.
- Walt Disney
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.
- Bill Gates
My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.
- Mukesh Ambani
After all, a man’s Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.
- Winston Churchill
The door to a balanced success opens wide on the hinges of hope and encouragement.
- Zig Ziglar
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
- Ray Kroc
You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.
- Reid Hoffman
10,000 years of fitful advance from primitive agriculture to medieval windmills and 16th-century astrolabes, the modern world suddenly experienced relentless technological progress from the advent of the steam engine in the 1760s all the way up to about 1970.
- Peter Thiel
The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
- Bill Gates
What is the one sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!
- Larry Page
There’s a way to do it better – find it.
- Thomas Edison
You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.
- Zig Ziglar
Mature company is founded on a broader perspective, an entrepreneurial perspective, a more intelligent point of view. About building a business that works not because of you but without you.
- Michael Gerber
The best way to predict the Future is with a Great, Unique Abilities Team
- Terry Powell
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.
- Joel Olsteen
I get more spam than anyone I know.
- Bill Gates
It’s tangible, it’s solid, it’s beautiful. It’s artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.
- Donald Trump
Listening is just as important in one’s home life as in the world of business.
- Dale Carnegie
When you reach out to hurting people, that’s when God is going to make sure your needs are supplied. When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.”
- Joel Olsteen
There’s no point in… just giving them money
- Lee Shau Kee
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength… it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
- Li Ka-shing
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
- Thomas Edison
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
Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.
- Michael Bloomberg
People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.
- Jerry Seinfeld
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
Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
The maxim, “Nothing prevails but perfection,” may be spelled PARALYSIS.
- Winston Churchill
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
- Jack Nadel
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it’s a lie and they’re protected if the person’s famous or it’s a company.
- Steve Wozniak
Los mitos y los sueños proceden del mismo lugar… Un mito es el sueño de una sociedad.
- Joseph Campbell
Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.
- Peter Thiel
I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years – part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.
- Peter Thiel
I think everyone’s against abortion.
- Rupert Murdoch
It sounds awful, but a crisis rarely ends without blood on the floor. That’s not easy or pleasant. But sadly, it is often necessary so the company can move forward again.
- Jack Welch
I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We’re prepared to pay billions.
- Sheldon Adelson
Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.
- Winston Churchill
Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.
- Napoleon Hill
I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.
- George Soros
It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.
- Ray Kroc
Desire is created when something happens in your life that suddenly changes the way you see yourself in relationship to your future.
- Zig Ziglar
believe God is going before my child lining up the right people to come across his path, taking away the wrong people, breaking every force of darkness, opening his eyes to every deception, and giving him the wisdom to make good choices to fulfill his destiny.” The Scripture tells us that the people of Israel.
- Joel Olsteen
Money doesn’t change you, it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
- Timothy Ferriss
Catering to a mass audience usually backfires. Instead the key thing is to stay in your lane, and if you are good enough and interesting enough, people move to you…If you never compromise, your core audience will come with you as you grow. Then you build on their loyalty and bring in other people.
- Russell Simmons
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
- W. Clement Stone
Trate siempre de que la otra persona se sienta importante.
- Dale Carnegie
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.
- Joel Olsteen
Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
How you see your future is much more important than what happened in your past.
- Zig Ziglar
Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.
- Sam Walton
