Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
- Warren Buffett
Notable Quotables
I don’t believe in saturation. We’re thinking and talking worldwide.
- Ray Kroc
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
- Napoleon Hill
I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
- Jack Dorsey
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking all day from one laboratory table to another. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
- Thomas Edison
There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
- Jack Welch
There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.
- Elon Musk
Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.
- Bill Gates
One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.
- Michael Otto
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
- Bill Gates
I remember clearly when the financial plan – If i may call it so – of my life was formed. It was out in Ohio, under the ministration of a dear old minister who preached, Get money; get it honestly, and then give it away wisely. I wrote that down in a little book.
- Ron Chernow
What I mean is that none of my talents had a – what’s that great word – rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer – there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I’m a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.
- Steve Martin
I have never found a ship I wanted to go down with
- Jack Nadel
In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.
- Winston Churchill
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
- Zig Ziglar
I first thought maybe I’d do a banjo presentation record, where I’d play a couple of songs and get a bunch of other players to do the rest. Then I realized I had enough of my own songs to do an album of them.
- Steve Martin
Doughnuts are a normal part of a healthy, balanced diet.
- Brooke Smith
You create your own universe as you go along.
- Winston Churchill
To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a candle, or the night.
- Yoda
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
- Walt Disney
We see no major changes in that model for the next several years. In fact, we are more optimistic about Cisco’s position and opportunities in both the enterprise and service provider markets than at any point in the last several years.
- John Chambers
It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.
- Joel Olsteen
We should remember it wasn’t so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.
- Michael Bloomberg
Life is too short to be small.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
- Napoleon Hill
If you want to spend time saying this is cool, you’re going to get your ass kicked.
- Phil Knight
There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
- Bill Gates
If you don’t have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don’t take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It’s crazy.
- Jack Welch
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.
- Henry Ford
Spreading old ways to create wealth around the world will result in devastation, not riches. In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable
- Peter Thiel
In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, ‘That was the Internet Age.’ And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.
- Reed Hastings
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
- Andrew Carnegie
The worst day of a man’s life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
- Thomas Jefferson
I think I may not be able to retire.
- Tadashi Yanai
The lesson of the Ford story is that managers and management are the specific need of the business enterprise, its specific organ, and its basic structure. We can say dogmatically that enterprise cannot do without managers. One cannot argue that management does the owner’s job by delegation. Management is needed not only because the job is too big for any one man to do himself, but because managing an enterprise is something essentially different from managing one’s own property.
- Peter Drucker
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
- Dale Carnegie
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.
- Oprah Winfrey
Present my story and the difficulties that I have faced. As an entrepreneur, a CEO.
- Ben Horowitz
business to be paid a salary of over a million dollars a year.
- Dale Carnegie
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
- Walt Disney
Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.
- Howard Schultz
Much about success is just the result of simply the ability to follow up, follow through, and finish what we started.
- Zig Ziglar
The good-will of a business which is losing money is not worth much.
- Ron Chernow
I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.
- Joel Olsteen
You can also make a 10x improvement through superior integrated design.
- Peter Thiel
I will not allow yesterday’s success to lull me into today’s complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
- Og Mandino
Newspaper readership is still growing in India.
- Bill Gates
The Chinese people have always been determined to forge ahead.
- Cheng Yu-tung
My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.
- Bill Gates
The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.
- Joel Olsteen
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
- Dale Carnegie
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention…. Its their ‘ideas’ that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as ‘more of a sponge than an inventor….’
- Thomas Edison
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
- Peter Drucker
At the time of any given decision, the CEO will generally have less than 10 percent of the information typically present in the post hoc Harvard Business School case study.
- Ben Horowitz
Without promotion, something terrible happens… nothing!
- P.T. Barnum
Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.
- Jerry Seinfeld
One of the greatest failures to execute is the lack of follow-up. This seems so obvious, yet very few companies place as much emphasis on accountability as they do on figuring what they want to get done. Steve Reinemund, who was president of Pizza Hut when I was head of marketing there, is the best I’ve ever seen on this front. He always carried a three-by-five note card in his shirt pocket. When saw something that needed to be done, he’d pull out the card and write it down. Like everyone else who witnessed this, I quickly realized that I had better write down the same things because he’d surely be on me until they got done. Steve got results everywhere he went, whether it was as president of Pizzas Hut or Frito-Lay or chairman of PepsiCo, because he made a point of following up. People often lose track of what they’ve talked about in meetings of what they promised to do, but when you write it down, you won’t forget it.
- David Novak
It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.
- Winston Churchill
It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it’s a communication job.
- Ben Horowitz
I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
- Russell Simmons
My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
- Thomas Edison
When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.
- Rupert Murdoch
My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart.
- Joel Olsteen
At Uniqlo, we’re thinking ahead. We’re thinking about how to create new, innovative products… and sell that to everyone.
- Tadashi Yanai
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
- Elon Musk
You can’t depend on polls.
- Michael Bloomberg
Most competitors quit long before they’ve created something that makes it to the top.
- Seth Godin
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
- John C. Maxwell
[On the Swoosh] It was 1971 and Ford had spent $2 million getting a trademark. We didn’t have $2 million. So I went by the graphic arts department at Portland State
- Phil Knight
If you don’t have a competitive advantage — don’t compete.
- Jack Welch
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
- Og Mandino
And we know that in ALL things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:28
I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations.
- Winston Churchill
It’s easy to dream about it … Much harder to execute it ….Work!
- Gary Vaynerchuk
We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas Edison
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..
- Winston Churchill
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
Less than 3% of newly published authors make enough in royalties and advances to be happy to live on.
- Seth Godin
If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.
- Zig Ziglar
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. It’s an awesome responsibility.
- Zig Ziglar
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk
The Pitch is your mechanism for persuasion. Persuasion is the goal. You’re trying to convince them of someone or something, and they might initially be resistant. This isn’t a nice casual conversation; it’s the Guerrilla P.R. version of a first strike.
- Michael Levine
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
- Dale Carnegie
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Differentiate yourself! Why are you different? What’s important about you? Why does the customer need you?
- Sara Blakely
Even if you don’t have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt.
- Victoria Ransom
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
- Elon Musk
Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist.
- Seth Godin
One of [Bill] Bowerman’s more legendary innovations is the Waffle outsole, which he discovered by pouring rubber into a waffle iron.
- Phil Knight
Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.
- John C. Maxwell
The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.
- Bill Gates
It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.
- Alisher Usmanov
Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
- Zig Ziglar
You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we’ve come up with doing that is through companies.
- Larry Page
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
- Napoleon Hill
We fully intend to capitalise on our strengths as this dynamic market continues to flourish.
- Cheng Yu-tung
People naturally follow those stronger than themselves.
- John Maxwell
