Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
- Bill Gates
Notable Quotables
Actually, if American business is going to succeed, we are going to need hundreds, or even thousands, of miracles.
- Peter Thiel
When I was 7, I came up with the idea of ‘charm socks.’ My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
- Sara Blakely
Bob Dylan has said that he who is not busy being born is busy dying.
- Peter Thiel
I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.
- Sara Blakely
If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary’s. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.
- Michael Bloomberg
Intentional Dishonesty.
- Napoleon Hill
You don’t ever want to sell, you want customers to sell.
- Clay Clark
Success is determined by your daily agenda
- John Maxwell
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?
- Brian Tracy
Law of Clarity – If you can’t explain what you sell to a ten-year old child then you don’t know what you sell.
- Jerry Vass
I never took classic business classes in college, so I don’t have the background that any of the people running large companies have.
- Howard Schultz
In this sense, if nothing about our society changes for the next 100 years, then the future is over 100 years away.
- Peter Thiel
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
- Og Mandino
There’s pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don’t get to know everybody, I don’t get to go to their ballgame, I don’t get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
- Joel Olsteen
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
If you give, you will be blessed.
- Joel Olsteen
Nobody is actually a natural C.E.O.
- Ben Horowitz
An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.
- Harvey Mackay
I would always be studying a map.
- Jack Dorsey
Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
- Elon Musk
Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
- Andrew Carnegie
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
- Jack Welch
We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.
- Peter Thiel
We do lots of Stuff. The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.
- Sergey Brin
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
- Warren Buffett
Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That’s why there’s the old saw: location, location, location.
- Jeff Bezos
Don’t be impatient. It’s not over until God says it’s over.
- Joel Olsteen
Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth.
- Napoleon Hill
I think George Will is somebody that said recently that the Republicans will not lose, as a Republican, that the Republicans will not win the election. I think it was a terrible statement.
- Donald Trump
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
- Thomas Edison
We’re totally legal, like totally legal, and the government is telling us to shut down. And you can either do what they say or you can fight for what you believe.
- Travis Kalanick
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’re always going to get what you’ve always gotten.
- Zig Ziglar
True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed or assigned. It comes only from influence, and that can’t be mandated. It must be earned. The only thing that a title can buy is a little time.
- Napoleon Hill
[In January 2011] I think the important thing for Twitter is that it works on any technology.
- Jack Dorsey
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
- Thomas Edison
Only a company with great integrity and the resources to fight for what’s right can afford to take on the government.
- Jack Welch
It’s true that every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer.
- Peter Thiel
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful’.
- Warren Buffett
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
- Andrew Carnegie
I’m skeptical that the novel will be ‘re-invented.’
- Jeff Bezos
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
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
- Dale Carnegie
People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.
- Joe Gibbs
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.
- Jeff Bezos
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Consumers are not loyal to cheap commodities. They crave the unique, the remarkable, and the human.
- Seth Godin
The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.
- Seth Godin
It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
- Elon Musk
There’s a sucker born every minute.
- P.T. Barnum
Ultimately, the goal of any public relations campaign is to either reorient or solidify the perception of a product, client, policy or event. From there nature takes its course. If the public perceives the product as good, the movie stars as sexy, the pet rock as indispensable, then the public will fork over its money. One will succeed in a P.R. campaign only if the perception fostered truly resonates with the public. People respect wisdom but obey pain.
- Michael Levine
I kicked but I also hugged.
- Jack Welch
We have an average household net worth of $3.7 million. Of course, some of our cohorts have accumulated much more. Nearly 6 percent have a net worth of over $10 million. Again, these people skew our average upward. The typical (median, or 50th percentile) millionaire household has a net worth of $1.6 million.
- Thomas J Stanley
Consensus decisions about executives almost always sway the process away from strength and toward lack of weakness.
- Ben Horowitz
And if I were the president, I’d go out there and I’d emphasize the things I have done, and I’d say, ‘Some things haven’t worked, and I’m sorry about that, but I keep trying.’ And I’m – and I think the president is a very viable candidate, and you’re going to have a real horse race here no matter who the Republican nominee is.
- Michael Bloomberg
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake.
- James C. Collins
I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream – and by tuning into one another’s secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.
- Oprah Winfrey
Anything you’re interested in the world – whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop – they’re on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
- Jack Dorsey
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
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy
- Jim Rohn
Keep Calm and Carry On.
- Winston Churchill
[On the first twitter tweet] The first tweet that was actually written by a human was by me and it was inviting co-workers.
- Jack Dorsey
Don’t try to create a new market prematurely. The only way to know you have a real business is to start with an already existing customer, so you should build your company by improving on recognizable products already offered by successful competitors.
- Peter Thiel
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
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
Many people fail to make a favourable impression because they don’t listen attentively.
- Isaac F. Marcosson
Anyone with a Purpose Can Make a Difference.
- Zig Ziglar
Cisco Systems Capital will be investing in companies working on networking technology.
- John Chambers
Mitt – what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he’s got a great view on China and how they’re trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
- Donald Trump
If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
- Joel Olsteen
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
She said, ‘My family is OK, John, but we lost everything.
- John Chambers
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
- Thomas Edison
My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
- Winston Churchill
We’re trying to identify the key influencers and make them distribution points.
- Jack Dorsey
When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.
- John C. Maxwell
A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.
- Winston Churchill
I learned about why startups should train their people when I worked at Netscape. People at McDonald’s get trained for their positions, but people with far more complicated jobs don’t. It makes no sense.
- Ben Horowitz
My biggest wish is for government, the private sector and all of us to work together to make the Philippines the best tourism destination in Southeast Asia.
- Henry Sy
People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.
- Mark Zuckerberg
The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
- Zig Ziglar
Philanthropy should be voluntary.
- Bill Gates
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.
- Jeff Bezos
By the end of the war (the civil war) John D. Rockefeller had established the foundations of his personal and professional life and was set to capitalize on the extraordinary opportunities beckoning him in postwar America. From this point forward, there would be no zigzags, or squandered energy, only a single-minded focus on objectives that would make him both the wonder and terror of American business.
- Ron Chernow
You can abuse me, you can strike me, so long as you let me have my own.
- Ron Chernow
With our feet to the fire, we needed to produce, in the course of the deal we figured out how to buy, how to sell, and how to finance a transaction.
- Jack Nadel
The new information technology… Internet and e-mail… have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
- Peter Drucker
Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.
- Azim Premji
It’s the moments where you feel most like hiding or dying that you can make the biggest difference as a CEO.
- Ben Horowitz
Art is the unique work of a human being, work that touches another.
- Seth Godin
You will either look back in life and say, I wish I had, or, I’m glad I did.
- Zig Ziglar
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
- Henry Ford
I was not naturally talented. I didn’t sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
- Steve Martin
What has sustained us through these years? Trust. Dedication. Discipline.
- Cheng Yu-tung
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
- Walt Disney
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
- Winston Churchill
Be a coach, not a cheerleader
- Stacy Thorn
What I know for sure is that if you want success, you can’t make success your goal. The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead work toward being significant, and the success will naturally follow.”
- Oprah Winfrey
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
- Og Mandino
