The Government simply cannot make up their mind or they cannot get the prime minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful for impotency. And so we go on preparing more months more years precious perhaps vital for the greatness of Britain for the locusts to eat. – Speaking in the Address in Reply debate, after giving some specific instances of Germany’s war preparedness.
- Winston Churchill
Notable Quotables
My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.
- Bill Gates
The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
- Bill Gates
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
The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.
- Michael Bloomberg
The Group’s performance will continue to improve in future upon return of the local economy on an upward recovery track.
- Lee Shau Kee
Less than 3% of newly published authors make enough in royalties and advances to be happy to live on.
- Seth Godin
There are a great many wetless” bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge is the only way.
- Dale Carnegie
If you pay people peanuts, you will get monkeys.
- Andy Pearson
Crash diets don’t work.They don’t work for losing weight, they don’t work for making sales quota and they don’t work for getting and keeping a job.The reason they don’t work has nothing to do with what’s on the list of things to be done (or consumed). No, the reason they don’t work is that they don’t change habits, and habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.
- Seth Godin
The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.
- Albert Einstein
I think there will be PCs at every price point.
- Bill Gates
Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart.
- Joel Olsteen
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
- Thomas Edison
David Novak CEO of YUM Brands (on crisis management)
- David Novak
I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm than a man who knows everything.
- John D. Rockefeller
MAY 31 The Power of Your Words Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. PROVERBS 18:21 NASB OUR WORDS have tremendous power and are similar to seeds. By speaking them aloud, they are planted in our subconscious minds, take root, grow, and produce fruit of the same kind. Whether we speak positive or negative words, we will reap exactly what we sow. That’s why we need to be extremely careful what we think and say. The Bible compares the tongue to the small rudder of a huge ship, which controls the ship’s direction (see James 3:4). Similarly, your tongue will control the direction of your life. You create an environment for either good or evil with your words, and if you’re always murmuring, complaining, and talking about how bad life is treating you, you’re going to live in a pretty miserable world. Use your words to change your negative situations and fill them with life.
- Joel Olsteen
I really like reading books
- Dale Carnegie
Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It’s something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.
- Steve Martin
Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass – the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that – so they’re kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.
- Bill Gates
Surround yourself only with those that uplift you.
- Oprah Winfrey
For every sale you miss because you were too enthusiastic, you’ll miss a hundred because you weren’t enthusiastic enough.
- Zig Ziglar
When you make a promise, keep it.
- Zig Ziglar
One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
- Rupert Murdoch
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
- Seth Godin
The financial world has long been missing immediacy, transparency, and approachability and this is what’s needed now.
- Jack Dorsey
God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.
- Joel Olsteen
If you say too much or mix in multiple pitches, you diffuse your goal. You must give the media a pitch they can hit.
- Michael Levine
Ow, ow, OW! On my ear you are!
- Yoda
We base our investment strategies on quality, trust, synergy and initiative.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Don’t use your words to describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.
- Joel Olsteen
We will make our products work out of the box.
- Steve Ballmer
Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
- Peter Drucker
Always pass on what you have learned.
- Yoda
Love to learn—hate to be taught.
- Winston Churchill
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
- Ray Dalio
Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.
- Reid Hoffman
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
- Stephen King
This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
- Winston Churchill
For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.
- Bill Gates
Weed out the bad fits right away
- Tony Hsieh
What this industry is about is back to the basics in the new Internet economy; and the basics are profitability, cash flow, productivity and market-share gains.
- John Chambers
There are no longer any great jobs where someone else tells you precisely what to do.
- Seth Godin
It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.
- Mark Zuckerberg
I’m a voracious reader.
- Howard Schultz
Tip #17 – Perceived value is what sells. Real value is what repeats.
- Jack Nadel
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
- Zig Ziglar
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
- Henry Ford
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we’re not wise enough to see it.
- Oprah Winfrey
Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that… you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.
- Elon Musk
I don’t want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.
- Stephen Wynn
The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.
- Larry Ellison
I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there’s one or two people and they say, ‘Great job, Mayor,’ that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn’t find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling – I think they should see the doctor.
- Michael Bloomberg
My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens.
- Howard Schultz
Cherish your visions and dreams as they are the children of your soul. The blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That’s not true… That would let the terrorists win. That’s what they want us to do.
- Michael Bloomberg
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
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
In the world of education, the more mistakes a person makes, the less intelligent that person is thought to be. In the world of entrepreneurship, mistakes are opportunities to learn something new, something not known previously. In the world of entrepreneurship, the more mistakes a person makes, the more a person learns. There is a bit of magic in every mistakes, so when you make mistakes, take the time to learn from them, and you’ll have more magic in your life.
- Robert Kiyosaki
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
- Timothy Ferriss
Little phrases such as ‘I’m sorry to trouble you,’ ‘Would you be so kind as to –?’ ‘Won’t you please?’ ‘Would you mind?’ ‘Thank you’ – little courtesies like these oil the cogs of the monotonous grind of everyday life – and incidentally, they are the hallmark of good breeding.
- Dale Carnegie
Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
- Henry Ford
I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.
- Joel Olsteen
The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.
- Zig Ziglar
I’m in the shoe business. Look at these things. They’re called Tigers. I faked out the company. I’m the US distributor. Come with me.
- Phil Knight
When you’re green, your growing. When you’re ripe, you rot.
- Ray Kroc
Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson.
- Winston Churchill
The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
- Ben Horowitz
If it’s not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people, that’s when God is going to make sure that His abundant blessings overtake you.
- Joel Olsteen
In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example – and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
- Rupert Murdoch
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
- P.T. Barnum
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
- Napoleon Hill
We’re all working together, that’s the secret.
- Sam Walton
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
- Bill Gates
American running shoes were still made by offshoots of the tire companies, cheap and terrible. They cost five bucks and gave you blood blisters…
- Phil Knight
We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone, discipline is what you do for someone.
- Zig Ziglar
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.
- John D. Rockefeller
The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.
- Zig Ziglar
The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
- Ben Horowitz
It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.
- Richard Harroch
You can be happy where you are.
- Joel Olsteen
Even though people are under economic pressure, they still want to support those brands with values that are compatible with their own.
- Howard Schultz
The Chinese government still would like to see U.S. Internet companies explore the Chinese market, providing they are willing to abide by Chinese law. I think companies like Facebook should think about the Chinese market.
- Robin Li
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
- John D. Rockefeller
It seems like a good cause. I’ve been watching it on TV and, it makes me want to help.
- Ed Clark
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
If we don’t allow ourselves to make mistakes, we will never invest in things that are radical.
- Jeff Clavier
Poor sales rather than bad product is the most common cause of failure.
- Peter Thiel
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
- Bill Gates
You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go.
- Joel Olsteen
That’s what makes death so hard—unsatisfied curiosity.
- Beryl Markham
Know what your brand stands for an exaggerate it in everything you do.
- David Novak
Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Yes, a Jedi’s strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice.
- Yoda
You will have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
You don’t have to start from scratch to do something interesting. You don’t have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world. You have to have a good idea. You have to convince other people of those good ideas. And you have to push as quickly as possible.
- Jack Dorsey
Get your fire back.
- Joel Olsteen
I enjoy myself a lot but I derive my joy from working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secret is hard work.
- Aliko Dangote
Ideas… they have the power.
- Napoleon Hill
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot.
- Paul Theroux
