[In January 2011] We have built the simplest way to accept credit cards. It’s a little tiny device that we give away for free, and you just download some softwares from the app store and plug it in to your mobile phone or iPad and suddenly you can take credit cards. So if you’re a tax accountant or a lawyer or doctor or even a hair stylist, you can now accept credit cards.
- Jack Dorsey
Notable Quotables
If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive good.
- Russell Simmons
Records are made to be broken. It is in man’s nature to continue to strive to do just that.
- Richard Branson
You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.
- Larry Ellison
We need a great president.
- Donald Trump
I understood the importance of hiring for strength rather than for lack of weakness, and I understood the meaning of “fit.”
- Ben Horowitz
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
- Jack Welch
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
Find something that you enjoy doing
- Jack Nadel
Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
- Winston Churchill
Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products – iPod, iPhone, iPad – that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
- Sam Walton
Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.
- James C. Collins
If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.
- Joel Olsteen
When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
- Carl Icahn
The words Think and Thank are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: Think and Thank. Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.
- Dale Carnegie
My father worked all the time.
- Michael Bloomberg
Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they’ll be there for you.
- Zig Ziglar
don’t talk about the way you are. Talk about the way you want to be.
- Joel Olsteen
I’m pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don’t see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I’m petrified of being wrong.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
- Bill Gates
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.
- Bill Gates
In some ways, running a successful business is a bit like coaching a football team. The fundamentals of football are blocking and tackling. The fundamentals of a business are it’s governing policies andprocesses. To carry out the metaphor, touchdowns are profits. The best business idea in the world cannot survive bad execution. So when you sit down to develop your workflow, internal policies, and business structure, be merciless, probe for weaknesses and assume that the worst will happen. – Jack Nadel (Author&Entrepreneur)
- Jack Nadel
Work hard and persevere.
- Lee Shau Kee
The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it.
- Peter Thiel
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of – of American capitalism.
- Warren Buffett
When you start a company, it’s a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.
- Howard Schultz
Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.
- Michael Bloomberg
At your next sales meeting with 20 people, three will take home the money of 17 others. Is it luck, hard work and a great attitude? Or it is persuasive skill – understanding the transactional dynamics of the sales process?
- Jerry Vass
You can’t build any kind of organization if you’re not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
- Howard Schultz
I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there’s a lot of bluegrass there.
- Steve Martin
Count your blessings—not your troubles!
- Dale Carnegie
Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You’re the only one who can do it permanently.
- Zig Ziglar
I’m a pretty conservative guy. But for some reason in business, I have always been pretty driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where we’ve been. On the one hand, in the community, I really am an establishment kind of guy; on the other hand, in the marketplace, I have always been a maverick who enjoys shaking things up and creating a little anarchy. And sometimes the establishments made me mad…
- Sam Walton
If you end your training now — if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did — you will become an agent of evil.
- Yoda
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
- Bill Gates
Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
- Bill Gates
I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.
- Joel Olsteen
The first complaint we hear from everyone is: ‘Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother’s eating for lunch?’ But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled – you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
- Jack Dorsey
Good leaders know that one secret to success is to staff their weaknesses.
- John Maxwell
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
- Henry Ford
Worry is interest paid before it’s due.
- Zig Ziglar
I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging, it’s just my personality.
- Joel Olsteen
As a founder, your first job is to get the first things right, because you cannot build a great company on a flawed foundation.
- Peter Thiel
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
- Harvey Mackay
This implies two very strange rules for VCs. First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund. This is a scary rule, because it eliminates the vast majority of possible investments. (Even quite successful companies usually succeed on a more humble scale.) This leads to rule number two: because rule number one is so restrictive, there can’t be any other rules.
- Peter Thiel
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
- Napoleon Hill
Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.
- Zig Ziglar
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
- Henry Ford
Investing in courage and determination was an easy decision for me.
- Ben Horowitz
Today, we exaggerate the differences between left-liberal egalitarianism and libertarian individualism because almost everyone shares their common indefinite attitude.
- Peter Thiel
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
- John D. Rockefeller
You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.
- Harvey Mackay
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
- Seth Godin
Our culture works hard to prevent change.
- Seth Godin
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas Edison
If You Want to Gather Honey, Don’t Kick Over the Beehive.
- Dale Carnegie
In philosophy, politics, and business, too, arguing over process has become a way to endlessly defer making concrete plans for a better future.
- Peter Thiel
Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.
- James C. Collins
You have to BE before you can DO, and DO before you can HAVE.
- Zig Ziglar
I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.
- Joel Olsteen
Refrain from throwing the executive under the bus.
- Ben Horowitz
Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.
- Joel Olsteen
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it’s making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it’s the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you’re dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.
- Reid Hoffman
Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.
- Bill Gates
If you are unduly nervous, turn it around make your vulnerability an asset.
- Michael Levine
your room alone. Just a few minutes ago, as I sat reading my paper in the library, a stifling wave of remorse swept over me. Guiltily I came to your bedside. There are the things I was thinking, son: I had been cross to you. I scolded you as you were dressing for school because you gave your face merely a dab with a towel. I took you to task for not cleaning your shoes. I called out angrily when you threw some of your things on the floor.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is a classroom — only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.
- Zig Ziglar
I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Do extremely difficult work.That seems obvious, right? If you do something that’s valued but scarce because it’s difficult, you’re more likely to be in demand and to be compensated fairly for what you do.The implication is stunning, though: When designing a project or developing a skill, seek out the most difficult parts to master and contribute. If it’s easy, it’s not for you.
- Seth Godin
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
- Winston Churchill
Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.
- Joel Olsteen
Trust your gut.
- Sara Blakely
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
- Anthony Robbins
After the decline in the past few years, the worst moment in the economy of Hong Kong is now behind us. The local property market is expected to show a steady upward trend as from this point.
- Lee Shau Kee
The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
- Peter Drucker
Your business has to work when it’s small in order to survive to the point where it gets big.
- Seth Godin
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.
- Bill Gates
Monopolists can afford to think about things other than making money, non-monopolists can’t.
- Peter Thiel
Problems, as a rule, solve themselves or disappear if you remove yourself as an information bottleneck and empower others.
- Timothy Ferriss
Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? I will speak ill of no man,” he said, … and speak all the good I know of everybody.
- Dale Carnegie
We’re all obsessed with ideas because ideas, not products, are the engine of our new economy.
- Seth Godin
You don’t ever want to sell, you want customers to sell.
- Clay Clark
I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
- Elon Musk
It is becoming increasingly clear that the global economy is improving, … As customers feel more confident to invest, we believe that we are well positioned to provide compelling value as a strategic business adviser and technology partner.
- John Chambers
We would betray our values and play into our enemies’ hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.
- Michael Bloomberg
I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
- Jack Dorsey
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
What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.
- Thomas Edison
Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.
- Jack Welch
But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
There is no accountability today… no willingness to focus on big ideas.
- Michael Bloomberg
In business, equilibrium means stasis, and stasis means death.
- Peter Thiel
I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
- Steve Martin
What you need to keep most in the U.S. is the entrepreneurial spirit.
- Alexei Mordashov
God, I’m ready. I’m taking the limits off of You. I’m enlarging my vision. I may not see a way but I know You have a way. I declare I’m coming into a shift.
- Joel Olsteen
