A well spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Notable Quotables
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
- Thomas Edison
I’m skeptical that the novel will be ‘re-invented.’
- Jeff Bezos
Who you associate with makes a difference in how far you go in life.
- Joel Olsteen
Arrange to meet with the members of your Master Mind group at least twice a week, and more often if possible, until you have jointly perfected the necessary plan or plans for the accumulation of money.
- Napoleon Hill
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
- Oprah Winfrey
This isn’t stealing this is standing on the shoulders of giants.
- David Novak
Change is the price of progress.
- Napoleon Hill
It’s true that every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer.
- Peter Thiel
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
- Og Mandino
All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We’ve got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.
- Steve Ballmer
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
- Sam Walton
If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you’ll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.
- Seth Godin
By providing the systems that make the Internet work, Cisco is playing a major role in helping customers thrive in the explosive Internet economy. As a result, we are growing faster than all of our key competitors and have been the fastest growing and most profitable company in the history of the computer industry.
- John Chambers
I guess Mr. Walton just had a personality that drew people in. He would yell at you from a block away, you know. He would just yell at everybody he saw, and that’s the reason so many liked him and did business in his store. It was like he brought in business by his being so friendly. (on role of managing partner)
- Inez Threet
Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
- Donald Trump
Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill
Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
- Bill Gates
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Mark Twain
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;
- Winston Churchill
Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
- Steven Wright
High expectations are the key to everything.
- Sam Walton
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
Just because you don’t announce your plan doesn’t mean you don’t have one.
- Herb Kelleher
The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
- Steve Wozniak
In order to build a great technology company, you have to hire lots of incredibly smart people. It’s a total waste to have lots of big brains but not let them work on your biggest problems. A brain, no matter how big, cannot solve a problem it doesn’t know about.
- Ben Horowitz
By swallowing evil word unsaid noone has ever yet harmed his stomach.
- Winston Churchill
There are many different kinds of PCs. You have fixed, virtual, tablets, notebooks, ultrabooks, desktops, workstations. What you find in commercial PCs, business PCs, is that there’s a really long tail of usage on client devices.
- Michael Dell
I’m just like so many women – I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, ‘What am I really supposed to wear under this?’ So it was a frustrated consumer moment.
- Sara Blakely
I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
- Walt Disney
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
- P.T. Barnum
Personally, I think the failure to really kind of get his arms around this company and this industry led to confusion on behalf of the management team. And I didn’t see that getting any better.
- Phil Knight
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
- Winston Churchill
As Indian companies strive to be globally competitive, they have realized the importance of investing in information technology and networking to adapt quickly to rapidly shifting market transitions.
- John Chambers
The people’s ability to achieve is determined by their leader’s ability to empower.
- Napoleon Hill
Anyone who prefers owning a part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company’s value in the future. Equity can’t create perfect incentives, but it’s the best way for a founder to keep everyone in the company broadly aligned.
- Peter Thiel
The mission announces exactly where you are going, and the values describe the behaviors that will get you there.
- Jack Welch
The accumulation of great fortunes calls for POWER and power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge, but that knowledge does not necessarily have to be in the possession of the man who accumulates the fortune.
- Napoleon Hill
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield
I’m not a macroeconomics person.
- Bill Gates
Good policies without the right people will achieve nothing.
- Aliko Dangote
At the end of the day, effective mission statements balance the possible and the impossible. They give people a clear sense of the direction to profitability and the inspiration to feel they are part of something big and important.
- Jack Welch
Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
- Bill Gates
Often, it is in trying times that the greatest endeavours are realised.
- Cheng Yu-tung
In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
- Sid Caesar
I’m enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that’s considered artistic, there’s a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can’t exist without it.
- Steve Martin
I’m an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
- Napoleon Hill
You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Education and the Internet must go hand in hand, … It will serve as one of the great equalizers.
- John Chambers
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
- Thomas Edison
There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it.
- Napoleon Hill
People can get information – on entertainment, politics, finance – much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.
- Robin Li
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
- Winston Churchill
There are two types of people in the world. One type is known as leaders and the other as followers. Decide at the outset whether you intend to become a leader in your chose calling or remain a follower. The difference in compensation is vast. The follwer cannot reasonably expect the compensation to which a leader is entitled, although many followers make the mistake of expecting such pay.
- Napoleon Hill
I’ve always believed that businesses should be good citizens…
- Phil Knight
A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller
It is going to be a little, if you will, laboratory for sustainability in businesses of small scale
- Larry Ellison
In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin.
- Alexei Mordashov
To all of us comes that moment in life when we are literally tapped on the shoulder to do a very special thing unique to ourselves and our talents. What a pity if that moment finds us unprepared.
- Winston Churchill
The characteristics that make a good advertisement or commercial – it’s memorable, engaging, entertaining, focused, sends a clear message, makes you want to see it again, makes you want to buy the product.
- David Novak
Whatever your views on thermodynamics, it’s a powerful metaphor: in business, equilibrium means stasis, and stasis means death.
- Peter Thiel
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
- Sam Walton
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.
- Seth Godin
Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.
- Joel Olsteen
Be a victor , not a victim.
- Joel Olsteen
If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.
- Harvey Mackay
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
- Andrew Carnegie
Small businesses don’t exist without the nucleus.
- Bryan Smith
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
- Bill Gates
3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.”-Bill Gates, Entrepreneur and founder of Microsoft
- Bill Gates
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
- Dave Barry
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
- Napoleon Hill
Foreign politicians don’t have resources – or limited resources. It’s useless dealing with them.
- Wang Jianlin
Los mitos y los sueños proceden del mismo lugar… Un mito es el sueño de una sociedad.
- Joseph Campbell
There’s plenty of room at the top but not enough room to sit down.
- Zig Ziglar
It’s easy to dream about it … Much harder to execute it ….Work!
- Gary Vaynerchuk
At an end your rule is, and not short enought it was!
- Yoda
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.
- Jerry Seinfeld
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge. If the employees fundamentally trust the CEO, then communication will be vastly more efficient than if they don’t.
- Ben Horowitz
People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.
- Donald Trump
Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I’m going to continue fighting for the end user.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.
- Joel Olsteen
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others.
- Dale Carnegie
Where is the love that will overlook a person’s faults?
- Joel Olsteen
I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that’s true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.
- Mark Zuckerberg
You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, ‘I don’t trust you until you show me I can trust you.’ I’m the latter.
- Charles Ergen
The Benefits are about the Buyer’s stuff – what your products or services do for Buyers. Do the Benefits make them feel better about life – give them power; make them sexier, prettier, richer, more comfortable or secure, smarter, more competitive? Do they save time, money, fear or hassle?
- Jerry Vass
The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
- George Soros
The key to a good one-on-one meeting is the understanding that it is the employee’s meeting rather than the manager’s meeting. This is the free-form meeting for all the pressing issues, brilliant ideas, and chronic frustrations that do not fit neatly into status reports, email, and other less personal and intimate mechanisms.
- Ben Horowitz
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
The bigger your list, the greater your options. That doesn’t mean you contact everyone on your list each time you send out a press release. You pick and choose who gets what, and block out long-term strategy as you go.
- Michael Levine
It’s Almost Impossible to Overinvest in Becoming the Market Leader.
- Seth Godin
The industrialist (your boss, perhaps) demands that everything be proven, efficient, and risk free. The artist seeks none of these. The value of art is in your willingness to stare down the risk and to embrace the void of possible failure.
- Seth Godin
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
