I’ve always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.
- Sara Blakely
Notable Quotables
Life is a buzzer box. Poke it.
- Seth Godin
I believe that success can be measured in the number of uncomfortable conversations you’re willing to have.
- Timothy Ferriss
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
- Evan Esar
For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can’t have privacy without security.
- Larry Page
Every moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.
- Peter Thiel
Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
- John C. Maxwell
People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, ‘Soave,’ and say, ‘Oh, O.K., cool.’
- Gary Vaynerchuk
When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.
- Joel Olsteen
I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed.
- Winston Churchill
If you’re looking for an abdominal exercise well-suited to power development without bulk, look no further than the Janda sit-up.
- Timothy Ferriss
The information about your project is objective, but your presentation is subjective. When your own subjectivity collides with that of the media, there’s plenty of room for confusion,misinterpretation and disinterest. That is why you must know precisely how to pitch before you make that first phone call or mail a press release.
- Michael Levine
We are interested in any sector with good growth potential.
- Dhanin Chearavanont
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.
- Winston Churchill
You can’t build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
- Rupert Murdoch
I’m an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.
- Reed Hastings
I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don’t know what I’ll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around … anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.
- Larry Ellison
Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
- Bill Gates
It’s absolutely a necessary and inevitable evolution in retailing (of Wal-Mart putting small stores out of business), as inevitable as the replacement of the buggy by the car, and the dissappearance of the buggy whip makers. The small stores (and DJs) were destined to dissappear, at least in the numbers they once existed., because the whole thing is driven by customers, who are free to choose where to shop.
- Sam Walton
I don’t like to look back, and I’m always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing.
- Steve Martin
What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.
- Peter Thiel
Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw the stars.
- Dale Carnegie
I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
- Sam Walton
Value is what you get.
- Warren Buffett
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
- George Soros
Cows, after you’ve seen them for a while, are boring. They may be perfect cows, attractive cows, cows with great personalities, cows lit by beautiful light, but they’re still boring.
- Seth Godin
The Internet will help achieve friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
- Bill Gates
Think and Thank. Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.
- Dale Carnegie
A movement is thrilling. It’s the work of many people, all connected, all seeking something better.
- Seth Godin
Out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
- Ben Horowitz
I’m not a fan of the cursing method of management.
- David Robinson
I taught myself how to program.
- Jack Dorsey
Competition is a sin.
- John D. Rockefeller
The worst that could happen wasn’t crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.
- Timothy Ferriss
I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.
- Winston Churchill
Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.
- Jerry Seinfeld
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
- Henry Ford
The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
- Napoleon Hill
I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
- Joel Olsteen
Unless they invest in the difficult task of creating new things, American companies will fail in the future no matter how big their profits remain today.
- Peter Thiel
Cold steel and discipline and the slight capital surplus necessary to move and organise armies constituted the sole defences.
- Winston Churchill
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
- Winston Churchill
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
- John C. Maxwell
Often, it is in trying times that the greatest endeavours are realised.
- Cheng Yu-tung
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn – which is what life is all about.
- Oprah Winfrey
Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they’ll be there for you.
- Zig Ziglar
It is very likely that Hong Kong has reached the end of the tunnel and the bright sunshine is not far from us.
- Cheng Yu-tung
You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance.
- Peter Thiel
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
- Winston Churchill
We gradually came to the realization that we were hurting not just ourselves but the Chinese people.
- Sergey Brin
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
- Winston Churchill
In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I’ve ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
- Jack Welch
Life’s too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can’t please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.
- Joel Olsteen
Only by believing in and looking for secrets could you see beyond the convention to an opportunity hidden in plain sight.
- Peter Thiel
As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.
- John C. Maxwell
The Roman world, like an aged man, wished to dwell in peace and tranquillity and to enjoy in philosophic detachment the good gifts which life has to bestow upon the more fortunate classes. But new ideas disturbed the internal conservatism, and outside the carefully guarded frontiers vast masses of hungry, savage men surged and schemed. The essence of the Roman peace was toleration of all religions and the acceptance of a universal system of government. Every generation after the middle of the second century saw an increasing weakening of the system and a gathering movement towards a uniform religion. Christianity asked again all the questions which the Roman world deemed answered for ever, and some that it had never thought of.
- Winston Churchill
The Value of a Smile at Christmas It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.
- Dale Carnegie
Seek Criticism Not Praise.
- Paul Arden
In business, money is either an important thing or it is everything.
- Peter Thiel
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
- Joel Olsteen
I don’t think we like the precedent of it, and so we’re fighting it. I think we’re right.
- Sergey Brin
Humor can often be effective and with this style, it’s emphasized. Appeal to the journalist’s heightened sense of the unusual. Stunts, sideshows, ancillary themes are put to work here.
- Michael Levine
[In February 2011 on Square.] Starting a startup after twitter is so much easier than before.
- Jack Dorsey
What we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Brian Tracy
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.
- Zig Ziglar
If you will focus on meeting other people’s needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.
- Joel Olsteen
I prefer the old theaters because the audience is… trapped.
- Jerry Seinfeld
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
Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.
- P.T. Barnum
Anyone who has held an iDevice or a smoothly machined MacBook has felt the result of Steve Jobs’s obsession with visual and experiential perfection. But the most important lesson to learn from Jobs has nothing to do with aesthetics. The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively.
- Peter Thiel
I refused to do a lot on mobile Internet until around 2009. But because we didn’t start early, it took us some time to figure out what’s the important thing, what’s the most relevant thing for Baidu.
- Robin Li
You’ve got to embrace what you don’t know.
- Sara Blakely
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
- Jack Welch
I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
- Jack Dorsey
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
- Elon Musk
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked
- Warren Buffett
all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.
- Timothy Ferriss
I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
- Timothy Ferriss
the average person is more interested in his or her own name than in all the other names on earth put together.
- Dale Carnegie
I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
- Bill Gates
Do or do not. There is no try.
- Yoda
Opportunity is often missed because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.
- Peter Thiel
Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.
- Joel Olsteen
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
We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don’t need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to be a dwindling voice in our culture. For the right librarian, this is the chance of a lifetime.
- Seth Godin
Service is the key to everything in life.
- Russell Simmons
Music plays a very important role in my life. I’m a frustrated musician. I play the drums.
- Ronald Perelman
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.
- Dale Carnegie
What is measured improves.
- Peter Drucker
There’s no reason in 2014, to do shit you hate. NONE.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don’t believe in climate change – they think oil will last forever.
- Elon Musk
Structure a deal and create a plan around it.
- Jack Nadel
If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.
- Jack Welch
You may not realize initially how many other opportunities are wrapped up inside the first one. After you go through the first door, you’ll then discover more doors automatically opening behind that one. One door leads you to another door, which leads to another door, and so one. It’s like ten other boxes packed inside one box. The initial door that God opens is your access to more opportunities. But you must be willing to walk through the first one to get to the other good things God has for you.
- George Foreman
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
Many of our best opportunities were created out of necessity. The things that we were forced to learn and do, because we started out underfinanced and undercapitalized in these remote small communities, contributed mightily to the way we’ve grown as a company. Had we been capitalized, or had we been the offshoot of a large corporation the way I wanted to be, we might not ever have tried…
- Sam Walton
Worry is the most significant factor that relates to the root of negative thinking.
- Zig Ziglar
