The first thing I would do for anyone who’s trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.
- Timothy Ferriss
Notable Quotables
We had no capital but we grew.
- Phil Knight
You don’t need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.
- Harvey Mackay
If you will focus on meeting other people’s needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.
- Joel Olsteen
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.
- Michael Bloomberg
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Ideas… they have the power.
- Napoleon Hill
You can change everything about your business by changing your thinking about your business.
- Zig Ziglar
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
- Henry Ford
I often see teams that maniacally focus on their metrics around customer acquisition and retention. This usually works well for customer acquisition, but not so well for retention. Why? For many products, metrics often describe the customer acquisition goal in enough detail to provide sufficient management guidance. In contrast, the metrics for customer retention do not provide enough color to be a complete management tool. As a result, many young companies overemphasize retention metrics and do not spend enough time going deep enough on the actual user experience. This generally results in a frantic numbers chase that does not end in a great product.
- Ben Horowitz
Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.
- P.T. Barnum
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.
- Harvey Mackay
Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
- Carl Icahn
A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.
- George Soros
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
Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business.
- Harvey Mackay
If you’re not one or two in the market, you don’t make money. The market leaders make the money.
- Jack Welch
If there is a Swedish style, I cannot identify it.
- Stefan Persson
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.
- Winston Churchill
The ‘Billionaire’ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.
- Bill Gates
The single greatest danger for a founder is to become so certain of his own myth that he loses his mind. But an equally insidious danger for every business is to lose all sense of myth and mistake disenchantment for wisdom.
- Peter Thiel
It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it’s a communication job.
- Ben Horowitz
When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
- John D. Rockefeller
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
Historians will record 1998 as a time when the impossible happened in Asia
- Cheng Yu-tung
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
- Walt Disney
We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company.
- Howard Schultz
The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
- Bill Gates
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
We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.
- Michael Bloomberg
Weak desires bring weak results.
- Napoleon Hill
In the middle of that process four power plants just tripped off all at once in unison.
- Ed Clark
If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them—not that they are working for you.
- Sam Walton
I’ve already figured out when I’m going to be No. 2 and No. 1.
- Sheldon Adelson
After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa’s greatest industrialist.
- Aliko Dangote
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.
- George Soros
There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.
- Ray Dalio
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent’s good will.
- Dale Carnegie
Being great at everything is not an actionable message.
- Floris Maljers
Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
- George Soros
There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?
- Warren Buffett
I’m an entrepreneur. I’m not a politician.
- Robin Li
The only time to buy these is on a day with no ‘y’ in it.
- Warren Buffett
Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
We are very happy to be reporting that our pro-forma earnings passed the $1 billion mark for the first time.
- John Chambers
Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Be a victor , not a victim.
- Joel Olsteen
It is easy to think that the things that bother you will upset your people more. That’s not true. The opposite is true. Nobody takes the losses harder than the person most responsible. Nobody feels it more than you.
- Ben Horowitz
I’m often asked how I define success. It’s an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things – achievement and appreciation. One isn’t enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.
- Timothy Ferriss
F-E-A-R has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.
- Zig Ziglar
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
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier.
- Bill Gates
To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.
- Vladimir Potanin
9 out of ten new businesses fail in the first five years.
- Robert Kiyosaki
War will find us whether we are ready or not.
- Winston Churchill
I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.
- Joel Olsteen
People’s favorite topic is themselves.
- Dale Carnegie
It’s absolutely a necessary and inevitable evolution in retailing (of Wal-Mart putting small stores out of business), as inevitable as the replacement of the buggy by the car, and the dissappearance of the buggy whip makers. The small stores (and DJs) were destined to dissappear, at least in the numbers they once existed., because the whole thing is driven by customers, who are free to choose where to shop.
- Sam Walton
Effectiveness must be learned.
- Peter Drucker
In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government.
- Alexei Mordashov
Remember: There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.
- Timothy Ferriss
Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.
- Winston Churchill
Nevertheless, in the first years of Standard Oil, Rockefeller regularly toured his facilities and was extremely inquisitive and observant, soaking up information and assiduously quizzing plant superintendants. In his pocket, he carried a little red notebook in which he jotted suggestions or improvements and always followed up on them. He knew the terror inspired by the little red book. More than once I have gone to luncheon with a number of our heads of departments and have seen the sweat out of on the foreheads for some of them when that little red notebook was pulled out.
- Ron Chernow
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Luke: What’s in there? Yoda: Only what you take with you.
- Yoda
Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?
- Zig Ziglar
Blacksmiths sometimes twist a rope tight around the nose of a horse, and by thus inflicting a little pain they distract his attention from the shoeing process. One way to get air out of a glass is to pour in water. Be Absorbed by Your Subject.
- Dale Carnegie
It’s about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it’s Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it’s going to be, ‘Storyteller.’
- Gary Vaynerchuk
You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you’re not driven to do your best, you’ll never reach the level of excellence in your life.
- George Foreman
After the decline in the past few years, the worst moment in the economy of Hong Kong is now behind us. The local property market is expected to show a steady upward trend as from this point.
- Lee Shau Kee
Accessible design is good design.
- Steve Ballmer
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
- Ben Horowitz
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
- Peter Drucker
Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.
- Michael Bloomberg
When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn’t happen.
- Ma Huateng
Developing a customer who loves the business so much that they become an unpaid and passionate marketer for the company.
- Clay Clark
The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
- Timothy Ferriss
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
- Henry Ford
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
- Henry Ford
Like technical debt, management debt comes in too many different forms to elaborate entirely, but a few salient examples will help explain the concept. Here are three of the more popular types among startups: 1. Putting two in the box 2. Overcompensating a key employee, because she gets another job offer 3. No performance management or employee feedback process
- Ben Horowitz
[In January 2011] There are so many features Twitter could build. There’s so many features that Square can build. But there is only one or two going to bring us to the next level.
- Jack Dorsey
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
- Bill Gates
When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.
- Larry Ellison
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
- Thomas Edison
You get paid to deliver results.
- David Novak
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
- Napoleon Hill
People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
- Elon Musk
Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products – iPod, iPhone, iPad – that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, This sickness can’t take my life.” This cancer can’t defeat me.” No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.
- Joel Olsteen
Winners Evaluate Themselves In A Positive Manner And Look For Their Strengths As They Work To Overcome Weaknesses.
- Zig Ziglar
Capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.
- Bill Gates
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose, a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
- John C. Maxwell
Become genuinely interested in other people.
- Dale Carnegie
I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I’m happy to be one – or proud to be one.
- Michael Bloomberg
The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
- Ben Horowitz
I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that’s what this organization does.
- Sergey Brin
