To answer power with power, the Jedi way this is not. In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.
- Yoda
Notable Quotables
When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
- Jack Ma
For the first time in a very long time, I believe the external factors are slowly starting to be more positive, … This is still a minority view, held by a minority of our customers, but we’ve seen early indications that the recovery could be gaining momentum.
- John Chambers
We modeled our employee stock ownership plan after Sam’s, and it worked well for us.
- Bernie Marcus
I really good at simplifying things. I think that’s my main strength. Taking something that’s fairly complex down to it’s essence. That’s what I love doing. That’s what I love thinking about.
- Jack Dorsey
Even though people are under economic pressure, they still want to support those brands with values that are compatible with their own.
- Howard Schultz
After assessing the prospects of the various business segments of Henderson Cyber, the company, Henderson Investment, Hong Kong and China Gas and Henderson Cyber jointly announced in August 2005, the proposed privatisation of Henderson Cyber by Henderson Investment and Hong Kong and China Gas…
- Lee Shau Kee
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
- Steve Wozniak
At its zenith Sears accounted for more than 2 percent of all retail sales in the United States. It pioneered several innovations critical to the success of today’s most admired retailers: for example, supply chain management, store brands, catalogue retailing, and credit card sales. The esteem in which Sears’ management was held shows in this 1964 excerpt from Fortune: “How did Sears do it? In a way, the most arresting aspect of its story is that there was no gimmick. Sears opened no big bag of tricks, shot off no skyrockets. Instead, it looked as though everybody in its organization simply did the right thing, easily and naturally. And their cumulative effect was to create an extraordinary powerhouse of a company.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
- Benjamin Franklin
All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.
- Donald Trump
I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
- Bill Gates
My home is in Moscow and I have no plans to change this.
- Alisher Usmanov
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.
- Richard Branson
If you pay people peanuts, you will get monkeys.
- Andy Pearson
There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.
- Bill Gates
Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.
- David Packard
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
- Jerry Seinfeld
You will find only what you bring in.
- Yoda
Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you’ve determined that you don’t like dirty old stinky wine – old-world flavors – you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.
- Donald Bren
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
- Russell Simmons
I am an expert in Higher Level Math. You + God= Enough
- Zig Ziglar
As it happened, we did extraordinarily well with our Newport Wal-Mart, and it wasn’t too long before the old Ben Franklin store I had run on Front Street had to close its doors. You can’t say we ran that guy – the landlord’s son – out of business. His customers were the ones who shut him down. They voted with their feet. Quite a few smaller stores have gone out of business during the time of Wal-Mart’s growth. Some people have tried to turn it into this big controversy, sort of a Save the Small-Town Merchants deal, like they were whales or whooping cranes of something that has the right to be protected…If you become a large-scale success it’s Katie bar the door. Suddenly, you make a very convenient villian because everybody seems to love shooting at who’s on top.
- Sam Walton
Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
- Andrew Carnegie
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Thomas Edison
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
- Reed Hastings
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?
- Brian Tracy
Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract failure.
- Timothy Ferriss
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
If any of my competitors were drowning, I’d stick a hose in their mouth
- Ray Kroc
The three Rs in educationare reading, writing and arithmetic. Without these basic skills, learning becomes almost impossible. In a similar way, business starts with a relationship. You are then judged by the results. Rewards spring from the results.
- Jack Nadel
It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.
- Joel Olsteen
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
- Thomas Edison
Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
- W. Clement Stone
I really believed that fear is contagious.
- Joel Olsteen
When you supervise something, it is one thing. When you are in the middle of something, there is a different pace of life.
- Vladimir Potanin
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
- Thomas Edison
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
- Napoleon Hill
That’s one of our biggest challenges – getting the people to the product immediately in a consistent way.
- Jack Dorsey
The end product of the shorter deadline is almost inevitable of equal or higher quality due to greater focus.
- Timothy Ferriss
Given the uncertainty going into the Y2K quarter, we are very pleased with our quarterly results.
- John Chambers
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
- Joel Olsteen
Install the proper systems.
- David Green
Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt… I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.
- Fujio Mitarai
It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.
- Steve Jobs
How you look, talk, and market your business is what should be keeping everyone busy.
- Bryan Smith
Don’t sling mud at others or soon you will find yourself in a deeper hole than when you started.
- Clay Clark
Be humble.
- Jack Dorsey
Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that everything changes except the law of change. He said: You cannot step in the same river twice. The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?
- Dale Carnegie
all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.
- Timothy Ferriss
We hate bureaucracy and all the nonsense that comes with it.
- Jack Welch
He looks like a female llama who has just been surprised in her bath.
- Winston Churchill
Every leader’s potential is determined by the people closest to him. No matter what I did with that staff, they would never be able to take the organization to the place we needed to go.
- Napoleon Hill
Once a decision is made…problems have to be solved.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family that would have killed for each other – and we still are. x
- Richard Branson
All the mental energy you use to elaborate your misery would be far better used trying to find the one seemingly impossible way out of your current.
- Ben Horowitz
In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
- Steve Wozniak
We must … balance the fact that innovation inside the network is just as important as innovation in services and devices connected to the Internet. Broadband Internet access service providers should remain free to engage in pro-competitive network management techniques to alleviate congestion, ameliorate capacity constraints, and enable new services.
- John Chambers
Most good ideas are already out there, and to learn about them, all you have to do is ask the right people.
- David Novak
Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.
- A. G. Buckham
The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.
- Bill Gates
A man should never neglect his family business.
- Walt Disney
But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it’s virtually impossible. It’s very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.
- Donald Trump
If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.
- Elon Musk
[In June 2011] I mean, what is Twitter? Ask 100 people, ‘what is the world?’ and you’ll get a thousand different answers. The same is true for Twitter. It’s different things to different people. Twitter is the world.
- Jack Dorsey
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
- Dale Carnegie
That was annoying but not entirely unexpected. It’s not a huge shock, given what’s going on down there.
- Ed Clark
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It’s really a great invention and I wouldn’t under-estimate the value of that, but they’re not designed to take care of social needs.
- George Soros
I’d never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn’t exist.
- Sara Blakely
I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like ‘Letterman’ and ‘The View,’ and I’ve heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven’t felt any negativity toward me or my music.
- Steve Martin
I move onward, the only direction Can’t be scared to fail in search of perfection.
- Jay-Z
Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.
- Bill Gates
When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America – a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image; a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee.
- Howard Schultz
Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.
- Harvey Mackay
When you own your choices, you own their consequences.
- Jack Welch
This book, then, is a product of the last fifteen years, as well as a product of the fifteen years that preceded them. It was almost exactly eight years before The E-Myth was published that I founded our company, E-Myth Worldwide, which has provided the fuel and experience for the point of view I have shared with those of you who have read The E-Myth, and with those.
- Michael Gerber
Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude.
- Zig Ziglar
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
- Donald Trump
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.
- John C. Maxwell
Excepting for reading my numbers on Saturday morning and going to our regular meetings, I don’t have much of a routine for anything else. I always carry my little tape recorder on trips, to record ideas that come up in my conversations with the associates. I usually have my yellow legal pad with me, with a list of ten or fifteen things we need to be working on as a company. My list drives the executives around here crazy, but it’s probably one of my more important contributions.
- Sam Walton
Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We’ll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I’m very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.
- Steve Ballmer
In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
- Bill Gates
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
- Walt Disney
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
There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
- Elon Musk
If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
- Jeff Bezos
One of the things that I’m really proud of is that I have really good timing. It’s very easy for me to see what’s coming up and it’s no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media – none at all.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that’s fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
- Bryan Adams
Where did your art go while you were tweeting?
- Seth Godin
The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.
- Harvey Mackay
Sports is like rock ‘n’ roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
- Phil Knight
Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.
- Seth Godin





