Branding is what people think about you before they even know you.
- Bryan Smith
Notable Quotables
Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, Napster’s then-teenage founders, credibly threatened to disrupt the powerful music recording industry in 1999. The next year, they made the cover of Time magazine. A year and a half after that, they ended up in bankruptcy court.
- Peter Thiel
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me….
- Thomas Edison
Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
- Bill Gates
Being an Entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death
- Elon Musk
The book ‘Do You!’ is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you – then the freedom comes. And we’re only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn’t make happy.
- Russell Simmons
I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it’s something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn’t compute with our existing educational system.
- Peter Thiel
We saw – we conducted the experiment. I mean, it’s been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we’re gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
- Larry Ellison
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Humility is becoming a lost art, but it’s not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.
- Harvey Mackay
This has been a very positive test for Kawasaki.
- Yoda
In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,In Victory: MagnaminityIn Peace: Good Will.
- Winston Churchill
Count your blessings—not your troubles!
- Dale Carnegie
all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.
- Timothy Ferriss
When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
- Bill Gates
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
- John D. Rockefeller
Do the Right Thing.
- Phil Knight
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
- Jeff Bezos
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Treat them (the employees) well, but see that they work.
- John D. Rockefeller
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
- Dale Carnegie
You’ll never achieve real success unless you like what you’re doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
- Steve Martin
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
- Lee Iacocca
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
You can’t fault government for seizing that opportunity. But it has an impact on Barbados’ current account deficit and it does bring with it attended risks. And, therefore, you have to ask whether or not the tourism business that is going to be generated from the publicity around the cricket matches will be sustained after the cricket matches are over.
- John Chambers
Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.
- Joel Olsteen
Think and Thank. Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.
- Dale Carnegie
Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air.
- Herb Kelleher
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
- Napoleon Hill
The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.
- Michael Bloomberg
One of the penalties of leadership is the necessity of willingness upon the part of the leader to do more than he requires of his followers.
- Napoleon Hill
Globalization replaced technology as the hope for the future. Since the ’90s migration “from bricks to clicks” didn’t work as hoped, investors went back to bricks (housing) and BRICs (globalization). The result was another bubble, this time in real estate.
- Peter Thiel
The Group will be able to capture opportunities arising from the growth and integration of the two economies, and scale new heights in the years ahead.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Once you’ve engaged with an organization or a relationship or a community, you owe it to your team to start. To initiate. To be the one who makes something happen. To do less is to steal from them. If you hide your spark, bury your ideas, keep your questions and notions from the team, you have hurt them as badly as if you had stolen a laptop and fenced it on eBay.
- Seth Godin
The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
- George Soros
What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.
- Peter Thiel
You can’t define what’s middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.
- Michael Bloomberg
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
- Bill Cosby
When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
- Carl Icahn
Be humble.
- Jack Dorsey
The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.
- Vladimir Potanin
I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What’s the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
- Larry Page
Faith in your new apprentice, misplaced may be. As is your faith in the dark side of the Force.
- Yoda
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate risk with failure.
- Seth Godin
SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.
- Elon Musk
The most valuable kind of company maintains an openness to invention that is most characteristic of beginnings.
- Peter Thiel
She came up with what is now the Swoosh for $35 which is a pretty good bargain.
- Phil Knight
What’s interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows – like, say, Shaquille O’Neal – is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.
- Jack Dorsey
The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.
- Bill Gates
When you marry operating excellence with innovation, you multiply the value of your creativity.
- James C. Collins
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
- Thomas Edison
Make sure your ego lies in the performance of the company, not in the performance of the stock.
- Warren Buffett
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
- Walt Disney
There are a thousand excuses for failure, but never a good reason.
- Mark Twain
I’m not a tech guy. I’m looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people’s eyes.
- Jack Ma
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake.
- James C. Collins
We’re extremely adroit at hiding our fear. Most of our lives in public are spent papering over, rationalizing, and otherwise denying our fear. We go to war because we’re afraid, and we often go to spiritual events for the very same reason.
- Seth Godin
E – Energy
- Jack Welch
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
- Jack Nadel
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one.
- Winston Churchill
The [Henderson] Group possesses substantial recurrent income.
- Lee Shau Kee
Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas Edison
Winning friends begins with friendliness.
- Dale Carnegie
We all know now that the 747 became the flagship jumbo jet of the airline industry, but the decision looks much different from the perspective of the late 1960s. Yet—and this is the key point—Boeing was willing to make the bold move in the face of the risks. As in Boeing’s case, the risks do not always come without pain.
- James C. Collins
Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.
- Howard Schultz
But it’s possible the orbits of the asteroids today show some memory of having had a planet in the asteroid belt.
- John Chambers
Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.
- Peter Thiel
As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
- John C. Maxwell
I’m not panicking, and I’m not scared, I’ve been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
They want good stories. They aren’t paid to say, no. They’re paid to say yes to the right stories.
- Michael Levine
Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous.
- Peter Thiel
Positively defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future. A new company’s most important strength is new thinking: even more important than nimbleness, small size affords space to think.
- Peter Thiel
You may live or work around a bunch of weeds, but don’t let that stop you from blooming. Realize that your environment does not prevent you from being happy. Some people spend all their time trying to pull up all the weeds. Meanwhile, they miss much of their lives. Don’t worry about things you can’t change. You can’t change the traffic in the morning. You can’t fix everybody at work. You can’t make all your family members serve God. But you shouldn’t let that keep you from being happy. Bloom anyway and focus on the things that you can change. You can change your own attitude. You can choose to be happy right where you are.
- Joel Olsteen
He had realized something while arcing in slow circles toward the earth—risks weren’t that scary once you took them. His.
- Timothy Ferriss
To connect with people in a group, connect with them as individuals.
- John Maxwell
Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.
- Bill Gates
CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It’s just cultural. People just don’t want to do it.
- Jack Welch
Philanthropy should be voluntary.
- Bill Gates
It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
- Winston Churchill
I’ve seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
- Timothy Ferriss
We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, … We have just completed a very successful management transition and I’ve never been more confident about the company’s future.
- Jack Welch
Darwin Smith stands as a classic example of what we came to call a Level 5 leader—an individual who blends extreme personal humility with intense professional will.
- James C. Collins
When your head of sales interviews for her next job, she won’t want to say that despite the fact that she ran a global sales force with hundreds of employees, her title was “Dude.”
- Ben Horowitz
We often hear military experts inculcate the doctrine of giving priority to the decisive theatre. There is a lot in this. But in war this principle, like all others, is governed by facts and circumstances; otherwise strategy would be too easy. It would become a drill-book and not an art; it would depend upon rules and not on an instructed and fortunate judgment of the proportions of an ever-changing scene.
- Winston Churchill
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
- Winston Churchill
Show a real interest in his problem and helping him solve it.
- Jack Nadel
The formula for handling Inherent Objections: 1. Isolate the Objection 2. Minimize the Objection 3. Offset the Objection with Benefits
- Jerry Vass
We live well below our means. We wear inexpensive suits and drive American-made cars. Only a minority of us drive the current-model-year automobile. Only a minority ever lease our motor vehicles.
- Thomas J Stanley
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
- Winston Churchill
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, ‘We don’t offer bribes’, or companies that operate only by market rules.
- Wang Jianlin
A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt, long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
- Winston Churchill
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
Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
- Napoleon Hill
Cuando dos socios siempre están de acuerdo, uno de ellos no es necesario.
- Dale Carnegie
Because we publicists are hired guns, reported don’t often put much stock in our pleas and arguments, at least not a first. I was told by one entertainment reporter from a large metropolitan paper, Publicists don’t believe in what they are selling. They’re just paid pitchmen.
- Michael Levine
Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
- Seth Godin
To get rich is glorious. So is helping poor farmers.
- Dhanin Chearavanont
