In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
Notable Quotables
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
- Mark Zuckerberg
“Trust me.” That’s what a CEO says every day to her employees. Trust me: This will be a good company. Trust me: This will be good for your career. Trust me: This will be good for your life. A layoff breaks that trust. In order to rebuild trust, you have to come clean.
- Ben Horowitz
Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It’s the best-conditioned athlete, not the most talented, who generally wins when the going gets tough.
- Harvey Mackay
A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck.So the question is: Have you ever done that?
- Seth Godin
Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to other people.
- Zig Ziglar
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Steve Jobs
1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20).2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson’s Law).
- Timothy Ferriss
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston Churchill
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Measure, coach and reward the right things. Measure the vitally important. Reward the doers.
- David Novak
Install the proper systems.
- David Green
Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
- Richard Branson
You can make an internet company with 10 people and it can have billions of users. It doesn’t take much capital and it makes a lot of money — a really, really lot of money — so it’s natural for everyone to focus on those kinds of things.
- Larry Page
We remain confident about the market opportunity ahead of us over the next three to five years.
- John Chambers
At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
- Howard Schultz
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
- Napoleon Hill
Some questions that I’ve found to be very effective in one-on-ones: If we could improve in any way, how would we do it? What’s the number-one problem with our organization? Why? What’s not fun about working here? Who is really kicking ass in the company? Whom do you admire? If you were me, what changes would you make? What don’t you like about the product? What’s the biggest opportunity that we’re missing out on? What are we not doing that we should be doing? Are you happy working here?
- Ben Horowitz
There is no such thing as a good tax.
- Winston Churchill
The focus is on the future.
- Cheng Yu-tung
We got to know a lot of investors and know what they like and don’t like. Through many co-investments opportunities, we have built trust among these investors. So when it came to investing in Xiaomi, things were a lot easier.
- Lei Jun
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
- John Wooden
Even god doesn’t propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?
- Dale Carnegie
Why do I need succession planning? I’m very alert, I’m very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
- Sheldon Adelson
You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.
- Jerry Seinfeld
The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
- Bill Gates
When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
- Howard Schultz
Positive thinking won’t allow you to do anything, but it will allow you to do everything better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
What I know is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
- Oprah Winfrey
Many of the people that you lay off will have closer relationships with the people who stay than you do, so treat them with an appropriate level of respect.
- Ben Horowitz
It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.
- Russell Simmons
It’s hard to make a living when you are in school…
- Michael Dell
I’ve seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
- Timothy Ferriss
Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.
- Jorge Paulo Lemann
Being the first mover doesn’t do you any good if someone else comes along and unseats you. It’s much better to be the last mover—that is, to make the last great development in a specific market and enjoy years or even decades of monopoly profits.
- Peter Thiel
The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don’t bring presents.
- Zig Ziglar
My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that’s what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
I hate nobody except Hitler–and that is professional.
- Winston Churchill
What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.
- Warren Buffett
Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.
- Elon Musk
I encourage active skepticism – when people are being skeptical because they’re trying to identify the best course of action. They’re trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.
- Timothy Ferriss
Don’t manage – lead change before you have to.
- Jack Welch
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
- Peter Drucker
Hong Kong has, throughout it’s history, experienced periods of uncertainties… I believe that the virtues of Hong Kong people – diligent, flexible and entrepreneurial – will once again overcome the obstacles before us.
- Cheng Yu-tung
London, a city where creativity and innovation have always flourished, provides a significant home for Starbucks and a significant gateway into Europe.
- Howard Schultz
As a group, we believe that education is extremely important for ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren. We spend heavily for the educations of our offspring.
- Thomas J Stanley
If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!
- Michael Gerber
Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
- Napoleon Hill
I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
- Steve Martin
When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren’t very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.
- Ben Horowitz
“Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it eventually, just do it and correct course along the way.
- Timothy Ferriss
Success is a choice
- Napoleon Hill
The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.
- Larry Ellison
Rockefeller preferred to own raw land. In 1873, he invested in seventy-nine scenic acres at Forest Hill, a lovely, thickly wooded spot, crisscrossed by steep ravines and gulleys, just four miles east of his Euclid Avenue home.
- Ron Chernow
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
- Napoleon Hill
We should remember it wasn’t so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.
- Michael Bloomberg
I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!
- Bill Gates
Thinking (of how to improve your life and business) is the hardest thing there is. That is why so few people engage in it.
- Henry Ford
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
- Sam Rayburn
Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
- Bill Gates
You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country’s success.
- Michael Bloomberg
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
- Winston Churchill
Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours.
- Zig Ziglar
No matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.
- Sheryl Sandberg
The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‘Oh nom it’s on the house.’
- Richard Branson
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
- Peter Drucker
I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.
- Winston Churchill
I really believed that fear is contagious.
- Joel Olsteen
It almost goes without saying that the team needs diversity of skills. Can you imagine a hockey team of goalies? Or a football team of quarterbacks? It doesn’t make sense. In the same way, organizations require diverse talents to succeed, each player taking his part.
- John Maxwell
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.
- Howard Schultz
E – Executions, how to get things done
- Jack Welch
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
Visionary companies are so clear about what they stand for and what they’re trying to achieve that they simply don’t have room for those unwilling or unable to fit their exacting standards.
- James C. Collins
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.
- Winston Churchill
We will be one of the most productive residential developers in China in the next few years.
- Lee Shau Kee
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.
- Winston Churchill
Ultimately, the goal of any public relations campaign is to either reorient or solidify the perception of a product, client, policy or event. From there nature takes its course. If the public perceives the product as good, the movie stars as sexy, the pet rock as indispensable, then the public will fork over its money. One will succeed in a P.R. campaign only if the perception fostered truly resonates with the public. People respect wisdom but obey pain.
- Michael Levine
You’ll never achieve real success unless you like what you’re doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Apart from consolidating our position as a major property developer in Hong Kong, we have also been diversifying into other activities such as hotel businesses, construction and engineering, container terminal services and television industry…
- Cheng Yu-tung
Grandmaster José Raúl Capablanca put it well: to succeed, “you must study the endgame before everything else.
- Peter Thiel
I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort.
- Sergey Brin
Government is dysfunctional.
- Michael Bloomberg
Those who keep the peace of their inner selves in the midst of the tumult of the modern city are immune from nervous diseases.
- Dale Carnegie
We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
- Bill Gates
You learn more in failure than you ever do in success.
- Jay-Z
These are all commodity-focused issues. The old conceit of a retailer was that if you offered the right products at a fair price in a convenient location, you’d do fine if you watched your expenses. Today, the issues are totally different.
- Seth Godin
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- Ray Dalio
Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.
- James C. Collins
They have destroyed your weapons,but these weapons would in any case have become obsolete before the next war. That war will be fought with brand-new ones, and the army which is least hampered with obsolete material will have a great advantage.
- Winston Churchill
Assetts put money in your pocket. Liabilities take money out of your pocket.
- Robert Kiyosaki
All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.
- Peter Thiel
Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
- Rupert Murdoch
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
Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group.
- Clayton M. Christensen
People have come to me over the years and said to me: ‘I admire the culture of Starbucks. Can you come give a speech and help us turn our culture around?’ I wish it were that easy. Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it’s based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions.
- Howard Schultz
My father worked all the time.
- Michael Bloomberg
Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside. They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they are trying to cope with or overcome. The last thing they need is for you to make matters worse by responding angrily.
- Joel Olsteen
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
