Of course, the challenge of being the initiator is that you’ll be wrong. You’ll pick the wrong thing, you’ll waste time, you’ll be blamed. This is why being an initiator is valuable. Most people shy away from the challenge. They’ve been too abused, they’re too fearful, they hold back, they’re happy to let someone else take the heat. Initiative is scarce. Hence valuable. Ditch digging is not scarce. It’s not hard at all to find manual labor at minimum wage, which is precisely why manual labor gets paid minimum wage. It’s extremely difficult to find smart people willing to start useful projects. Because sometimes what you start doesn’t work. The fact that it doesn’t work every time should give you confidence, because it means you’re doing something that frightens others.
- Seth Godin
Notable Quotables
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
Don’t just park money in the bank.
- Lee Shau Kee
Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
- Donald Trump
We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.
- Joel Olsteen
I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I’m not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
- Jack Ma
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.
- Matthew 7:12
Anyone with a Purpose Can Make a Difference.
- Zig Ziglar
I definitely think there’s some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don’t think data collects it. They’re not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
- Peter Drucker
I remember one time I didn’t want to spend any money on motels so we all slept in sleeping bags on the floor of one of our guys’ houses. His furniture hadn’t gotten there yet.
- Sam Walton
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Networking is one of the most valuable uses of your time in terms of return—and not just in monetary terms.
- Business Insider.com
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
When you have the right staff, potential skyrockets.
- Napoleon Hill
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
- Napoleon Hill
When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, He’s offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that person’s life. You must learn to follow that love. Don’t ignore it. Act on it. Somebody needs what you have.
- Joel Olsteen
Whatever happens, you’re responsible. If it doesn’t happen, you’re responsible.
- Donald Trump
When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.
- Dale Carnegie
Why don’t we have enough teachers of math and science in the public schools? One answer is well, if they knew the subject well, they’d also know enough to work for Google or Goldman Sachs or God knows where.
- James Simons
If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‘satisfactory,’ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?
- Bill Gates
I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.
- Joel Olsteen
Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can’t deal with the stress of the moment.
- Seth Godin
I think every Internet user likes personalization.
- Ma Huateng
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
- Andrew Carnegie
Part of company culture is path-dependent – it’s the lessons you learn along the way.
- Jeff Bezos
One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
- Peter Drucker
Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
- Joel Olsteen
The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.
- Andrew Carnegie
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
We’re not in the hamburger business. We’re in show business.
- Ray Kroc
It is possible to know all there is to know about a subject—medicine, for example—but if you don’t have M.D. at the end of your name, few will listen. The M.D. is what I term a credibility indicator.” The so-called expert with the most credibility indicators, whether acronyms or affiliations, is often the most successful in the marketplace, even if other candidates have more in-depth knowledge. This is a matter of superior positioning, not deception.
- Timothy Ferriss
Thomas Edison had only three months of schooling during his entire life. He did not lack education, neither did he die poor. Henry Ford had less than a sixth grade schooling but he has managed to do pretty well for himself financially.
- Napoleon Hill
But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
- Henry Kissinger
Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
- Elon Musk
Whether changes happen depends on people’s mind and view.
- Cheng Yu-tung
The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.
- Zig Ziglar
A definite view, by contrast, favors firm convictions. Instead of pursuing many-sided mediocrity and calling it “well-roundedness,” a definite person determines the one best thing to do and then does it. Instead of working tirelessly to make herself indistinguishable, she strives to be great at something substantive—to be a monopoly of one. This is not what young people do today, because everyone around them has long since lost faith in a definite world. No one gets into Stanford by excelling at just one thing, unless that thing happens to involve throwing or catching a leather ball.
- Peter Thiel
The constraint of 140 characters is easy to approach and consume, without a great deal of barriers to entry. One message and suddenly the whole world has access to that Tweet.
- Jack Dorsey
Beaujolais is so underrated.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
- Winston Churchill
Amazon made its first 10x improvement in a particularly visible way: they offered at least 10 times as many books as any other bookstore.
- Peter Thiel
We fully intend to capitalise on our strengths as this dynamic market continues to flourish.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Doing the wrong thing daily, compounds over time.
- John C. Maxwell
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
Without failure there is no achievement.
- John C. Maxwell
War will find us whether we are ready or not.
- Winston Churchill
You don’t make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you’re-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don’t know what’s going to happen.
- Michael Bloomberg
Hedgehog Concept—disciplined action, following from disciplined people who exercise disciplined thought.
- James C. Collins
Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat.
- James C. Collins
For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn boat.
- Tony Hsieh
Don’t lose youself on the way to the top.
- Jack Welch
If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
- Bill Gates
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.
- Malcolm Forbes
The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets.
- Howard Schultz
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
- Benjamin Franklin
I used to believe that a good product sold itself.
- Phil Knight
Transparency in the traditional school might destroy it.
- Seth Godin
We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
- Bill Gates
If you need 15 minutes in the sun to trigger a melanin response, 15 minutes is your MED for tanning. More than 15 minutes is redundant and will just result in burning and a forced break from the beach. During this forced break from the beach, let’s assume one week, someone else who heeded his natural 15-minute MED will be able to fit in four more tanning sessions. He is four shades darker, whereas you have returned to your pale pre-beach self.
- Timothy Ferriss
As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.
- Harvey Mackay
If you spend money on what you want, you’ll beg for what you need.
- T.D Jakes
Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.
- Joel Olsteen
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can’t learn anything from being perfect.
- Adam Osborne
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
- John F. Kennedy
Unwavering courage based upon knowledge of self, and of one’s occupation. No follower wishes to be dominated by a leader who lacks self-confidence and courage. No intelligent follower will be dominated by such a leader very long.
- Napoleon Hill
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
- Henry Ford
A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.
- Joel Olsteen
What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
- Jeff Bezos
It is going to be a little, if you will, laboratory for sustainability in businesses of small scale
- Larry Ellison
My supply of Scotch caution never has been small; but I was apparently something of a daredevil now and then to the manufacturing fathers of Pittsburgh. They were old and I was young, which made all the difference.
- Andrew Carnegie
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.
- Harvey Mackay
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
One day, I’d like to write a book about the worst ads ever run, but my fear is that it would be too long.
- Seth Godin
Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
- Howard Schultz
if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.
- Dale Carnegie
We are fastidious investors. On average, we investnearly 20 percent of our household realized income each year. Most of us invest at least 15 percent. Seventy-nine percent of us have at least one account with a brokerage company. But we make our own investment decisions.
- Thomas J Stanley
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
A record isn’t like a movie – you can get it together pretty fast.
- Steve Martin
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
- John C. Maxwell
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
Appreciation – Learn to give flowers while people are still living.
- Joel Olsteen
It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
It’s hard for me to imagine how a $50 million marketing campaign is ever appropriate for any business to launch an ideavirus. If you need to interrupt that many people, you’re doing something wrong.
- Seth Godin
Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
- Dale Carnegie
The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.
- Bill Gates
In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
- Bill Gates
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Entrepreneurs must protect themselves and the venture at all times by documenting your agreements.
- Jack Nadel
Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect’s mind.
- Zig Ziglar
I DECLARE it is not too late to accomplish everything God has placed in my heart. I have not missed my window of opportunity. God has moments of favor in my future. He is preparing me right now because He is about to release a special grace to help me accomplish that dream. This is my time. This is my moment. I receive it.
- Joel Olsteen
Even if you are predisposed to being overweight, you’re not predestined to be fat.
- Timothy Ferriss
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
- Dale Carnegie
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
The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.
- John C. Maxwell
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
- Elon Musk
There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don’t know if Samsung would stop us.
- Steve Wozniak
