If that doesn’t seem dominant enough, consider the fact that the word “google” is now an official entry in the Oxford English Dictionary—as a verb.
- Peter Thiel
Notable Quotables
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
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.
- Peter Drucker
Your business has to work when it’s small in order to survive to the point where it gets big.
- Seth Godin
Look, winning and losing can’t be quantified. They are states of mind, and losing happens only when you give up. Seen that way, then, the world can be filled with winners, and there is room for them all.
- Jack Welch
Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing, right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn’t remarkable, it’s invisible.
- Seth Godin
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
- Dale Carnegie
If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
- Bernard Shaw
We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That’s life. And it’s part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.
- Michael Bloomberg
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
- Reid Hoffman
Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.
- Ben Horowitz
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
- Zig Ziglar
I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.
- Joel Olsteen
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage — leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.
- Warren Buffett
What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.
- Thomas Edison
The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
- Napoleon Hill
Cisco will be well placed to continue building our presence in India as a critical part of our research and development efforts and as domestic market for networking products and solutions continues to expand.
- John Chambers
That’s an issue dear to my heart, because I was born in the Soviet Union during the communist era.
- Sergey Brin
The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.
- Michael Gerber
thoughtless reliance on technology is a liability.
- James C. Collins
I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that’s one of the things that he’s going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.
- Michael Bloomberg
Throw it all up on the wall and see what sticks.
- Timothy Ferriss
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
- Seth Godin
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
- Seth Godin
The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.
- John C. Maxwell
Without promotion, something terrible happens… nothing!
- P.T. Barnum
While there’s always room for improvement, … we were very pleased with our results in what is a seasonally-challenging quarter.
- John Chambers
We saw that a thousand results weren’t necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.
- Sergey Brin
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exup
A healthy company culture encourages people to share bad news. A company that discusses its problems freely and openly can quickly solve them.
- Ben Horowitz
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
- Og Mandino
Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
- Seth Godin
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
- Ben Horowitz
Many salespeople feel that selling is warfare: the buyer is the enemy and words are ammunition…The seller’s advances are turned aside because they are so predictable, amateurish and easily deflected.
- Jerry Vass
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.
- Wang Jianlin
The stark differences between man and machine mean that gains from working with computers are much higher than gains from trade with other people. We don’t trade with computers any more than we trade with livestock or lamps. And that’s the point: computers are tools, not rivals.
- Peter Thiel
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill
My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
- Jeff Bezos
The startup uniform encapsulates a simple but essential principle: everyone at your company should be different in the same way—a tribe of like-minded people fiercely devoted to the company’s mission.
- Peter Thiel
Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Steve really took over the project when I had a plane crash and wasn’t there. He took over the project, and it was really my own opinion — only my opinion — that he wanted to compete with the Lisa group that had kicked him out.
- Steve Wozniak
I think what’s happening for me, it’s fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It’s fun to see Instagram become a major player. It’s fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn’t do anything unless you do it right.
- George Foreman
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
If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.
- Dave Ramsey
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
- Ben Horowitz
I believe people have to follow their dreams – I did.
- Larry Ellison
I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.
- Bill Gates
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
- Steve Ballmer
People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.
- John C. Maxwell
Los líderes son vulnerables, no controladores, y nos llevan a un lugar nuevo, no a la seguridad barata, rápida y sumisa.
- Seth Godin
China is likely to sustain its pace of economic growth for the next decade.
- Cheng Yu-tung
He had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed.
- Thomas Edison
There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
- Oprah Winfrey
I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.
- Jack Dorsey
You will find only what you bring in.
- Yoda
It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
- Warren Buffett
The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.
- Elon Musk
Foreplay, cuddling – a Jedi craves not these things.
- Yoda
There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
- Simon Sinek
Gain alignment every step of the way. Again, no involvement means no committment. Skip a layer and you will ultimately pay the price.
- David Novak
Quality is much better than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
- Steve Jobs
Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.
- Dale Carnegie
It’s not Pinterest where people are putting up pins. You’re changing the way cities work, and that’s fundamentally a third rail. We’re in a political campaign, and the candidate is Uber and the opponent is an as—hole named Taxi.
- Travis Kalanick
Just like Mark Snider told the Board of Elections within a couple hours of when he first became aware of it… first of all, Mike and I didn’t even know anything about this till March 16, … Second of all, nobody benefited from this in any way, shape or form whatsoever.
- Michael Ward
The team with the best players wins.
- Jack Welch
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
- Napoleon Hill
The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.
- Joel Olsteen
It’s easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.
- Zig Ziglar
Freedom does not come automatically, it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound
- Rollo May
Creative monopolists give customers more choices by adding entirely new categories of abundance to the world. Creative monopolies aren’t just good for the rest of society, they’re powerful engines for making it better.
- Peter Thiel
Live creatively, friends. . . . Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others” (Galatians 6:1, 4).
- Zig Ziglar
God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.
- Joel Olsteen
I think Bible principles are principles for life.
- Joel Olsteen
A false transaction using my own people to buy the flat? I’ll make a bet with you. For every $10,000 you put down, I’ll wager $1 million.
- Lee Shau Kee
you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.
- Dale Carnegie
To reach your full potential, you have to set goals that will stretch you.
- Zig Ziglar
What’s happening is that the two groups assume that the nature of the debate is really a matter of disagreement about their own sides’ core issues. Each side is assuming that people in the other group oppose what they hold most dear to themselves – what’s most important to their side – but in fact their adversaries really don’t oppose them.
- John Chambers
You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.
- Joel Olsteen
I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
- Jeff Bezos
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
- Oprah Winfrey
Well, we’re about 24 million subscribers today, and that’s up from about 15 million a year ago, so it’s a very high rate of growth, and that’s what’s exciting about the business – more and more people are getting smart TVs, they’re watching Netflix on their iPads.
- Reed Hastings
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. The management team.
- James C. Collins
This could easily end up one of the driest winters ever, unless things switch around.
- Ed Clark
Globally, business and government leaders are beginning to dramatically transform their traditional business models into Internet economy business models, … Customers are increasingly seeking Cisco’s expertise to help them through this transformation.
- John Chambers
About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.
- Reed Hastings
It’s been a long career, and I’ve made some mistakes along the way.
- Rupert Murdoch
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.
- Winston Churchill
You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
- Seth Godin
The strange history of the Baby Boom produced a generation of indefinite optimists so used to effortless progress that they feel entitled to it. Whether you were born in 1945 or 1950 or 1955, things got better every year for the first 18 years of your life, and it had nothing to do with you.
- Peter Thiel
(Wright is) a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he’s a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, … He’s a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company’s future growth.
- Jack Welch
The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
- Wang Jianlin
Small businesses don’t exist without the nucleus.
- Bryan Smith
What this industry is about is back to the basics in the new Internet economy; and the basics are profitability, cash flow, productivity and market-share gains.
- John Chambers
