If you’re going to have to swallow a frog, you don’t want to have to look at that sucker too long!
- Zig Ziglar
Notable Quotables
Don’t use your words to describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.
- Joel Olsteen
I don’t like accidental success. It’s what Bill Gates calls ‘random,’ a term he uses with the opposite of respect.
- Masayoshi Son
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
- Jeff Bezos
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
- Russell Simmons
It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
- Tadashi Yanai
The moment a leader allows himself to become the primary reality people worry about, rather than reality being the primary reality, you have a recipe for mediocrity, or worse. This is one of the key reasons why less charismatic leaders often produce better long-term results than their more charismatic counterparts.
- James C. Collins
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
- Winston Churchill
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
- Bill Gates
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
- Peter Drucker
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
- Peter Drucker
You create your own universe as you go along.
- Winston Churchill
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.
- Rupert Murdoch
E – Edge, ability to make tough yes and no decisions
- Jack Welch
Research what they did, how they did it and how you can do it better.
- Jack Nadel
Personally, I just hope that my family keeps getting bigger and bigger. That would make me very happy.
- Lee Shau Kee
Most of the fans have ideas about their perfect phone. But many of them can’t do it because building a phone is tough. So they would give us feedback about the features that they think should be included in our next model. And if we incorporated that in our new phone, they will share the good news with their friends.
- Lei Jun
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
- John Wooden
Hard things are hard because there are no easy answers or recipes. They are hard because your emotions are at odds with your logic. They are hard because you don’t know the answer and you cannot ask for help without showing weakness.
- Ben Horowitz
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
- Andrew Carnegie
All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… 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
If you concentrate on what you have, you will always end up having more. If you focus on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
I’m a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
- Carl Icahn
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir ’em up, but you can’t do that on television. It’s just not on.
- Rupert Murdoch
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Oprah Winfrey
First and foremost, there is a difference between being perceived as an expert and being one. In the context of business, the former is what sells product and the latter, relative to your minimal customer base,” is what creates good products and prevents returns.
- Timothy Ferriss
Similar to all of you, we would like to see higher growth.
- John Chambers
I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.
- Elon Musk
I don’t know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
- Sam Walton
Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders’ hearth.
- Winston Churchill
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
- Og Mandino
In the context of body redesign, there are two fundamental MEDs to keep in mind: To remove stored fat → do the least necessary to trigger a fat-loss cascade of specific hormones. To add muscle in small or large quantities → do the least necessary to trigger local (specific muscles) and systemic (hormonal2) growth mechanisms.
- Timothy Ferriss
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
Why do I drive a truck? What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?
- Sam Walton
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.
- Sam Walton
RULE 2. Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it.
- Jack Welch
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don’t have to manage them.
- Jack Welch
If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
- Bill Gates
Put time limits on each item. Set an agenda for your meeting and your trips to Disney World.
- David Robinson
Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.
- Jack Welch
An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
- Elon Musk
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
- Michael Bloomberg
It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.
- Bill Gates
Wrong Selection of A Mate In Marriage.
- Napoleon Hill
It’s not about how to get started, it’s about how to get noticed.
- Steve Case
It’s not what you’ve got. It’s what you use that makes a difference.
- Zig Ziglar
Frequently I’ll be interviewing with somebody or talking and in about 15 minutes they’ll interrupt me mid-stream and say, ‘Oh my God, you’re nothing like I’d thought you’d be.’
- Larry Ellison
I don’t get caught up in the moment.
- Ray Dalio
I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people and their communities.
- Jack Welch
Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.
- Lei Jun
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
- Bill Gates
The current (educational) structure, which seeks low-cost uniformity that meets minimum standards, is killing our economy, our culture, and us.
- Seth Godin
A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.
- George Soros
Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.
- Dale Carnegie
There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
- Napoleon Hill
Never forget, the real secret of giving advice is this: Once you’ve given it, don’t concern yourself with whether it is followed or not, and refrain from saying ‘I told you so.’
- Harvey Mackay
PRINCIPLE 1 Don’t criticize, condemn or complain. PRINCIPLE 2 Give honest and sincere appreciation. PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want.
- Dale Carnegie
Comedy may be big business but it isn’t pretty.
- Steve Martin
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
- Napoleon Hill
Magazines, trade publications and out outlets that relate specifically to your field of interest. If you’re a musician, Billboard, Rolling Stone and Spin top your list; if you’re a chef or restaurateur, the Gourmet or Bon Appetit and the food section of your local paper top yours.
- Michael Levine
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
- Yoda
Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
- Elon Musk
What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it’s all about one thing, and one thing only. All of the razzmatazz and jazz we hear about facilities and everything else doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. It’s customer experience that determines the longevity and endurance of these enterprises.
- Stephen Wynn
They told you to get your résumé in order, to punch your ticket, to fit in, and to follow instructions. They told you to swallow your pride, not to follow your dream. They promised trinkets and prizes and possibly riches if you would just suck it up and be part of the system, if you would merely do what you were told and conform. They sold you debt and self-storage and reality TV shows. They sold your daughters and sons, too.All in exchange for what would happen later, when it was your turn. It’s your turn.
- Seth Godin
Facing a market which awaited exploration and development, the Group decided to become a pioneer in its economic reform by taking up the responsibility to engage in the development of the Mainland.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.
- Joel Olsteen
Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You’re the only one who can do it permanently.
- Zig Ziglar
Said another way, the Entrepreneurial Model has less to do with what’s done in a business and more to do with how it’s done. The commodity isn’t what’s important—the way it’s delivered is. When The Entrepreneur creates the model.
- Michael Gerber
I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
- Steve Martin
You can’t build any kind of organization if you’re not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
- Howard Schultz
Your story is a symphony, not a note.
- Seth Godin
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
- Henry Ford
I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.
- Jeff Bezos
What do you want? is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.
- Timothy Ferriss
Most good ideas are already out there, and to learn about them, all you have to do is ask the right people.
- David Novak
Other people’s successes are good news – for them and for you. Good for you because they show you a way to go.
- Stephen Wynn
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
- Dale Carnegie
Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.
- A. G. Buckham
The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.
- Seth Godin
The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill…
- Thomas Edison
Rockefeller never clarified why he dropped out of high school around May 1855, just 2 months shy of commencement, excercises on July 16…
- Ron Chernow
Our company has to be a company that enables its people.
- Steve Ballmer
You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
- Donald Trump
The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
- Bill Gates
Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you’ve got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn’t your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
- Jack Welch
Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.
- Jack Dorsey
To answer power with power, the Jedi way this is not. In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.
- Yoda
People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
- Bill Gates
Stubborn isn’t a word I would use to describe myself, pigheaded is more appropriate.
- Michael Bloomberg
We, in short, propose to tax luxuries, monopolies, and superfluities, but we scrupulously avoid taxing the necessaries of life.
- Winston Churchill
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
- Dale Carnegie
The reason that I have Global Grind is to communicate ideas to people who might otherwise not be listening.
- Russell Simmons
Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.
- John C. Maxwell
What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
- Winston Churchill
We started with this very simple idea
- Jack Dorsey
Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.
- Tadashi Yanai
Woody’s Allen’s great line about relationships. A relationship is like a shark, it either has to move forward or it dies. And that’s true about your company.
- Larry Ellison
