My dad is like a cactus – introverted and tough. I’m a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He’s my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Notable Quotables
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
Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.
- Joel Olsteen
What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.
- Dave Thomas
The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
- Steve Ballmer
Disruptive technology should be framed as a marketing challenge, not a technological one.
- Clayton M. Christensen
This presents more of a challenge, given our current size and market leadership.
- John Chambers
It is equally important that diversification is an ongoing process.
- Cheng Yu-tung
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.
- Donald Trump
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
During this time I learned the most important rule of raising money privately: Look for a market of one. You only need one investor to say yes, so it’s best to ignore the other thirty who say “no.”
- Ben Horowitz
I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.
- Joel Olsteen
If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.
- Woodrow Wilson
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
- Yoda
The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
- Zig Ziglar
I’d say it’s been my biggest problem of my life…it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
- Walt Disney
When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you’re allowing that person to control you.
- Joel Olsteen
People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.
- John C. Maxwell
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
- Jeff Bezos
There is no decision that we can make that doesn’t come with some sort of balance or sacrifice
- Simon Sinek
I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat.
- Winston Churchill
Every noteworthy achievement met with some sort of temporary setback before success came.
- Napoleon Hill
Grandmaster José Raúl Capablanca put it well: to succeed, “you must study the endgame before everything else.
- Peter Thiel
The most expensive piece of real estate is the six inches between your right and left ear. It’s what you create in that area that determines your wealth. We are only really limited by our mind.
- Dr. Dolf de Roos
If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
- Benjamin Hooks
Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.
- Joel Olsteen
Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Enjoy the moment.
- Jack Dorsey
Pessimism doesn’t grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.
- Harvey Mackay
To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a candle, or the night.
- Yoda
This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
- James C. Collins
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
When the economy does pick up, … so will … spending.
- John Chambers
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
- Malcolm X
What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
- Jeff Bezos
The Law of Crappy People states: For any title level in a large organization, the talent on that level will eventually converge to the crappiest person with the title.
- Ben Horowitz
I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.
- Ray Dalio
I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
- Russell Simmons
The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits.
- Winston Churchill
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
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
- Andrew Carnegie
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
- Henry Ford
You don’t inherit cancer, you actually get it.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
We didn’t really know what was happening.
- John Chambers
Only by believing in and looking for secrets could you see beyond the convention to an opportunity hidden in plain sight.
- Peter Thiel
You’re either a Purple Cow or you’re not. You’re either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice.
- Seth Godin
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
- P.T. Barnum
We, in short, propose to tax luxuries, monopolies, and superfluities, but we scrupulously avoid taxing the necessaries of life.
- Winston Churchill
When Pat Holt strings together a list of words not to overuse—“Actually, totally, absolutely, completely, continually, constantly, continuously, literally, really, unfortunately, ironically, incredibly, hopefully, finally”—she’s not being a stickler for formality and grammar. Instead she’s reminding us that words matter, that poor word use is just a red flag for someone who wants to ignore you.
- Seth Godin
If you believe as I do that you were born to win, you’re going to have to find your fears and start facing them.
- Zig Ziglar
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
- Winston Churchill
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. … The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?
- Larry Ellison
A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
- John C. Maxwell
We so much time putting these organizations and public figures on this massive, massive pedestal, but we have to remember they go through all the small details of live that we do. And you can make them human again and you can interact with them.
- Jack Dorsey
People who sell companies are “investment bankers.” And people who sell themselves are called “politicians.” There’s a reason for these redescriptions: none of us wants to be reminded when we’re being sold.
- Peter Thiel
Be honest, always.
- Jack Dorsey
If you can dream it, you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Hay que evitar siempre el ángulo agudo.
- Dale Carnegie
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
- Bill Gates
It’s not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
- Zig Ziglar
Choose your customers, choose your future.
- Seth Godin
When the negative thoughts come – and they will, they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.
- Joel Olsteen
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
I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
- Jeff Bezos
If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.
- Azim Premji
Wrong Selection Of A Vocation
- Napoleon Hill
Get the right people on the bus and get the wrong people off of the bus.
- Jim Collins
Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
- Donald Trump
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
- Napoleon Hill
We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox… and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.
- Rupert Murdoch
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
- Thomas Edison
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- Winston Churchill
If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.
- Zig Ziglar
When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.
- Dale Carnegie
About 80% of our locations are second-generation. In other words, the building used to be, say, a Wal-Mart that moved out to become a Super Wal-Mart, or a Kmart that closed. It seems that such a site becomes available almost every year in every city.
- David Green
I’m tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
- Steve Martin
From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.
- Elon Musk
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep form meddling with them while they do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Brevity is the soul of wit.
- William Shakespeare
If you count E-mail, I’m on the Internet all day, every day.
- Bill Gates
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known
- Walt Disney
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
- Napoleon Hill
What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who’s divorced really have of becoming president?
- Michael Bloomberg
There are only two kinds of employees that I’ve run across in 30 years. There are ones that get results, and ones that make excuses. If you’re in that second camp, you’re not going to like Dish.
- Charles Ergen
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
- Winston Churchill
I don’t think we like the precedent of it, and so we’re fighting it. I think we’re right.
- Sergey Brin
My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.
- Sara Blakely
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
- Debbi Fields
The culture was strong enough to transcend the original company.
- Peter Thiel
The world has changed – through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it’s ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it’s kind of hard now. The technology, the science – it’s like, are you kidding? We’re in the golden years of wine!
- Gary Vaynerchuk
As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies. At my companies, our position is that we hire someone in spite of an MBA, not because of one.
- Elon Musk
Projections are just bullshit. They’re just guesses.
- Jason Fried
There is never a bad time to start a business – unless you want to start a mediocre one.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Being financially rich and having the ability to live like a millionaire are fundamentally two very different things.
- Timothy Ferriss
You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.
- Bill Gates
Who’s your Jedi master? WHO’S your Jedi Master?
- Yoda
