I wanted to be a tailor to craft products.
- Jack Dorsey
Notable Quotables
It didn’t matter how bleak the situation or how stultifying their mediocrity, they all maintained unwavering faith that they would not just survive, but prevail as a great company. And yet, at the same time, they became relentlessly disciplined at confronting the most brutal facts of their current reality.
- James C. Collins
The fatal temptation is to describe your market extremely narrowly so that you dominate it by definition.
- Peter Thiel
Strive to make every person feel special. After all, every person you meet is made in the image of God.
- Joel Olsteen
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.
- Sam Walton
Faith in your new apprentice, misplaced may be. As is your faith in the dark side of the Force.
- Yoda
All my friends ask me, ‘Am I number one in the world in [receiving] dividend payments?’ I say, ‘I don’t know, ask Forbes.’
- Lee Shau Kee
Take every opportunity to inject self-confidence into those who have earned it. Use ample praise, the more specific the better.
- Jack Welch
If it didn’t happen in your life before, then you’re not paying attention you don’t think it’s possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.
- Ray Dalio
So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
- Oprah Winfrey
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
- Peter Drucker
The three Rs in educationare reading, writing and arithmetic. Without these basic skills, learning becomes almost impossible. In a similar way, business starts with a relationship. You are then judged by the results. Rewards spring from the results.
- Jack Nadel
Extraordinary results are directlydetermined by how narrow you can make your focus.
- Gary Keller
An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
- Elon Musk
I’m not speaking defeat into my future. I’m not speaking failure over my life. I will turn it around and speak favor into my future. I will declare, I’m blessed. I’m strong. I’m healthy. This will be a great year.” When you do that, you are blessing your future.
- Joel Olsteen
Rockefeller never clarified why he dropped out of high school around May 1855, just 2 months shy of commencement, excercises on July 16…
- Ron Chernow
To my mind the old masters are not art, their value is in their scarcity.
- Thomas Edison
A riot is the language of the unheard.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
- Jeff Bezos
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
- Og Mandino
We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time
- Sara Blakely
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
- Oprah Winfrey
I don’t want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
- Zig Ziglar
Our culture is friendly and intense, but if push comes to shove we’ll settle for intense.
- Jeff Bezos
To answer power with power, the Jedi way this is not. In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.
- Yoda
With limited time or opportunity to experiment, we intentionally narrow our choices to those at the top.
- Seth Godin
The thought of my mortality – I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number’s up.
- Sara Blakely
There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
- Napoleon Hill
People think, ‘Jack, you do too much.’
- Jack Ma
My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.
- Donald Trump
The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
- Napoleon Hill
At the very beginning I actually felt a bit nervous. I didn’t have much experience in gaming.
- Lui Che Woo
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
- Winston Churchill
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
Happiness does not depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
- Winston Churchill
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
- P.T. Barnum
You’re got to worry about what’s coming up to stay ahead of the curve…
- Phil Knight
Whoever is first to dominate the most important segment of a market with viral potential will be the last mover in the whole market.
- Peter Thiel
In a vacuum of feedback, there is almost no chance that your company will perform optimally.
- Ben Horowitz
Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Poke the box How do computer programmers learn their art? Is there a step-by-step process that guarantees you’ll get good? All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works. The box might be a computer or it might be a market or it might be a customer or it might be your boss. It’s a puzzle, one that can be solved in only one way—by poking.
- Seth Godin
Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
- Howard Schultz
Top academic institutions are wonderful, but there are unrecognized benefits to not coming out of one. Grads from top schools are funneled into high-income 80-hour-per-week jobs, and 15–30 years of soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path. How do I know? I’ve been there.
- Timothy Ferriss
I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last… Whether it’s tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
- Tadashi Yanai
America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.
- Michael Bloomberg
You can’t define what’s middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.
- Michael Bloomberg
Out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
- Ben Horowitz
If there’s a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we’ll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we’re going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother’s house that night for dinner.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.
- Peter Thiel
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.
- Joel Olsteen
This is a strange Christmas Eve,”Churchill told the the crowd of several hundred gathered at the mansion’s garden.”Almost the whole world is locked in deadly struggle, and with the most terrible weapons which science can devise the nations advance upon each other.
- Winston Churchill
To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.
- Michael Bloomberg
I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Selling and delivering a product is at least as important as the product itself.
- Peter Thiel
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard P. Feynman
When I came into office, people said, ‘Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?’ Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It’s not an issue.
- Michael Bloomberg
A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. 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. You are not a lottery ticket.
- Peter Thiel
I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.
- Joel Olsteen
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
- Harry Truman
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Dale Carnegie
My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
- Elon Musk
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Oprah Winfrey
We’d love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.
- Richard Branson
Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.
- Zig Ziglar
The thorough man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment to ends.
- Andrew Carnegie
We need original thinkers, provocateurs, and people who care. We need marketers who can lead, salespeople able to risk making a human connection, passionate change makers willing to be shunned if it is necessary for them to make a point. Every organization needs a linchpin, the one person who can bring it together and make a difference. Some organizations haven’t realized this yet, or haven’t articulated it, but we need artists.
- Seth Godin
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
You guarantee a good meal by picking the recipes well, not by following recipes well.
- Timothy Ferriss
By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.
- Dale Carnegie
When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‘Oh, it must be so hard.’ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
- Peter Drucker
People say that what we are seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability you have.
- Zig Ziglar
Be ready for problems–you’ll have them every day. Keep open to new ideas–that’s where innovation begins.
- Donald Trump
A change is as good as a rest.
- Winston Churchill
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
- Russell Simmons
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
- Seth Godin
When my partners and I meet with entrepreneurs, the two key characteristics that we look for are brilliance and courage. In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
- Ben Horowitz
I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.
- Mark Zuckerberg
If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it’s much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.
- George Soros
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
Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.
- Elon Musk
Everything in life is luck.
- Donald Trump
Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it’s a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.
- Harvey Mackay
Life is a classroom — only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.
- Zig Ziglar
It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
- Warren Buffett
I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.
- Peter Drucker
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
- Donald Trump
$1,000,000 in the bank isn’t the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.
- Timothy Ferriss
If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.
- Dale Carnegie
You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.
- Gary Keller
Sometimes, we’re so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing.
- Seth Godin
The problem with New Year’s resolutions – and resolutions to ‘get in better shape’ in general, which are very amorphous – is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn’t work. I don’t care if you’re a world-class CEO – you’ll quit.
- Timothy Ferriss
After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.
- Vladimir Potanin
We got to know a lot of investors and know what they like and don’t like. Through many co-investments opportunities, we have built trust among these investors. So when it came to investing in Xiaomi, things were a lot easier.
- Lei Jun
