Most men go to their graves with their dreams still inside them.
- Zig Ziglar
Notable Quotables
You know what your problem is, it’s that you haven’t seen enough movies – all of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.
- Steve Martin
We saw strength across our core switching and routing businesses, as well as traction in our advanced technologies. The service provider and public sector segments, in particular, continue to be solid markets for our products.
- John Chambers
The successful leader must plan his work, and work his plan. A leader who moves by guesswork, without practical, definite plans, is comparable to a ship without a rudder. Sooner or later he will land on the rocks.
- Napoleon Hill
At the end of the day, I guess my feeling is that it was sort of a failure to communicate.
- Phil Knight
But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
Urm. Put a shield on my saber I must.
- Yoda
I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.
- Elon Musk
When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.
- George Soros
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I’m a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that’s what I do.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Eventually we’ll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
- Bill Gates
Remember: There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.
- Timothy Ferriss
I like to get people fired up, fill them with zeal for McDonald’s, and watch the results in their work.
- Ray Kroc
We are still masters of our fate.We are still captains of our souls.
- Winston Churchill
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.
- Jeff Bezos
If you ask me whether the future is better than today, I would say yes; but the people must be ready to pay for services and pay their taxes.
- Aliko Dangote
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
- Winston Churchill
The soul of business is not making money but making people happy.
- Aliko Dangote
Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.
- Tadashi Yanai
For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.
- Elon Musk
From wherever you are, you can go anywhere you want to go if you pick the right roads to travel.
- Zig Ziglar
I don’t know what causes a person to be ambitious, but it is a fact that I have been overblessed with drive and ambition from the time I hit the ground.
- Sam Walton
When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
- Jack Ma
Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.
- Zig Ziglar
Pareto’s Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs results from 20% of the inputs.
- Timothy Ferriss
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
- Seth Godin
The Chinese who left the mother country had to struggle, and that became a culture of its own, passed on… through each generation. Because we have no social security, the overseas Chinese habit is not to spend a lot and to make a lot of friends.
- Lee Shau Kee
The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you’ve ever been able to create before.
- Seth Godin
Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
- Bill Gates
Tesla is becoming a real car company.
- Elon Musk
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
- Bill Gates
I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.
- Winston Churchill
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
- Napoleon Hill
Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‘Good pride’ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‘Bad pride’ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
- John C. Maxwell
What has changed is that people have stopped working together.
- Michael Bloomberg
We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.
- John C. Maxwell
Just like Mark Snider told the Board of Elections within a couple hours of when he first became aware of it… first of all, Mike and I didn’t even know anything about this till March 16, … Second of all, nobody benefited from this in any way, shape or form whatsoever.
- Michael Ward
I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
- Jack Dorsey
The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
- Napoleon Hill
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting
- Thomas Jefferson
The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.
- Robin Li
The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.
- Winston Churchill
People think, ‘Jack, you do too much.’
- Jack Ma
Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option.
- Howard Schultz
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey
Being nice to people is just 20% of providing good customer service. The important part is designing systems that allow you to do the job right the first time. All the smiles in the world aren’t going to help you if your product or service is not what the customer wants,
- James L. Heskett
You’ve got to take a big jump to make it. You’ve got to have great big balls.
- Forrest Ray
t’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.
- Warren Buffett
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
- Og Mandino
Direct results always come first. In the care and feeding of an organization, they play the role calories play in the nutrition of the human body.
- Peter Drucker
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
- Winston Churchill
I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.
- Jeff Bezos
Selling your company to the media is a necessary part of selling it to everyone else.
- Peter Thiel
Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That’s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
- Elon Musk
If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they’d outlaw the DVR.
- Charles Ergen
Business Coach Quotes: A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs
- Seth Godin
The difficult task is to marry relentless discipline with creativity, neither letting discipline inhibit creativity nor letting creativity erode discipline.
- James C. Collins
In 2008, Box had a good way for companies to store their data safely and accessibly in the cloud. But people didn’t know they needed such a thing—cloud computing hadn’t caught on yet. That summer, Blake was hired as Box’s third salesperson to help change that. Starting with small groups of users who had the most acute file sharing problems, Box’s sales reps built relationships with more and more users in each client company. In 2009, Blake sold a small Box account to the Stanford Sleep Clinic, where researchers needed an easy, secure way to store experimental data logs. Today the university offers a Stanford-branded Box account to every one of its students and faculty members, and Stanford Hospital runs on Box. If it had started off by trying to sell the president of the university on an enterprise-wide solution, Box would have sold nothing. A complex sales approach would have made Box a forgotten startup failure; instead, personal sales made it a multibillion-dollar business.
- Peter Thiel
Most people have ‘one way’ brains—they acquire information and do nothing. Guerillas have ‘two way’ brains—they obtain relevant information and act on it.
- Jay Conrad Levinson
A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.
- Marcel Herrmann Telles
To do the most good requires saying no to pressures to stray, and the discipline to stop doing what does not fit.
- Peter Drucker
When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.
- Larry Ellison
You can be passionate about anything.
- Jerry Seinfeld
You can make an internet company with 10 people and it can have billions of users. It doesn’t take much capital and it makes a lot of money — a really, really lot of money — so it’s natural for everyone to focus on those kinds of things.
- Larry Page
Value is achieved primarily through frontline employees who are satisfied, loyal, and productive, in part because of the high degree of capability they possess to deliver results to customers
- Service Profit Chain
Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.
- Joel Olsteen
Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.
- Zig Ziglar
It’s lonely at the top, so you had better take someone with you…and it’s lonely at the top, so you had better know why you are there.
- Napoleon Hill
Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring the burbling crowd and not eating bacon. All of these are useful habits.
- Seth Godin
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
- Napoleon Hill
My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
- Elon Musk
The desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature.
- John Dewey
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
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
- John D. Rockefeller
You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time… the habit takes over.
- Zig Ziglar
Don’t marry too early in life. It’s better to work hard when young and establish a career first.
- Lee Shau Kee
So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.
- Dale Carnegie
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
- Andrew Carnegie
My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
- Howard Schultz
I think alot about money when I do not have it.
- Stacy Thorn
All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill
Zero to One is about how to build companies that create new things. It draws on everything I’ve learned directly as a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir and then an investor in hundreds of startups, including Facebook and SpaceX.
- Peter Thiel
God, You said Your favor is not for a season but for a lifetime.
- Joel Olsteen
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
There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
- Timothy Ferriss
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.
- Zig Ziglar
Every job you take is a gamble that could increase your options or shut them down.
- Jack Welch
technology is important—you can’t remain a laggard and hope to be great. But technology by itself is never a primary cause of either greatness or decline.
- James C. Collins
We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren’t that many things people use twice a day.
- Larry Page
China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.
- Bill Gates
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
- Zig Ziglar
The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
- George Soros
Successful storytelling builds brand equity, and businesses with high brand equity don’t need to draw as much attention to themselves and their achievements as those that are still establishing their value to the customer.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
- John D. Rockefeller
The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.
- Bill Gates
I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that’s like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.
- David Reuben
I think when companies are struggling, they don’t want to talk to the press. The guys who write business books aren’t interested in it because nobody wants to learn what it’s like to be a mess, you want to learn how to be successful. That’s slanted the whole thing quite a bit.
- Ben Horowitz
