Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
Notable Quotables
Three out of four of us who are self-employed consider ourselves to be entrepreneurs. Most of the others are self-employed professionals, such as doctors and accountants.
- Thomas J Stanley
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.
- Warren Buffett
People in general, and knowledge workers in particular, grow according to the demands they make on themselves. They grow according to what they consider to be achievement and attainment. If they demand little of themselves, they will remain stunted. If they demand a good deal of themselves, they will grow to giant stature—without any more effort than is expended by the nonachievers.
- Peter Drucker
This has been a very positive test for Kawasaki.
- Yoda
Feel the force!
- Yoda
An organization takes its cue from the person on top. I always told our business leaders their personal intensity determined their organization’s intensity….For me intensityh covers a lot of sings. If there’s one characteristic all winners share, it’s that they care more than anyone else. No detail is too small to sweat or too large to dream. Over the years I have looked for this characteristic in the leaders we selected. It doesn’t mean loud or flamboyant. It’s something that comes from deep inside. Great organizations can ignite passion….Leaders must have courage to kick ass and break glass.
- Jack Welch
Share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.
- Blake Mycoskie
I’m blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
- Joel Olsteen
We’re living in what I like to call the ‘Thank You Economy,’ because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way – and do it authentically – are going to have a prayer of competing.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
- George Soros
If they really don’t want to buy the flats, I’ll take their deposits.
- Lee Shau Kee
Count your blessings—not your troubles!
- Dale Carnegie
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures
- Sam Walton
Success is best when it’s shared.
- Howard Schultz
I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.
- Donald Trump
I believe in motivating with humor. … – David Novak CEO OF Yum! Brands
- David Novak
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.
- Donald Trump
I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.
- Jeff Bezos
I work hard, I eat fishballs and noodles. I drink coffee and tea from a street vendor. I am quite casual about personal wealth, life hasn’t changed at all.
- Lui Che Woo
I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.
- Ray Dalio
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
- Seth Godin
Money isn’t everything , but it’s right up there with oxygen.
- Zig Ziglar
But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis—as dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness, poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting. Thus whole nations are roused to arms. Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide. In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace.
- Winston Churchill
If Google Books is successful, others will follow.
- Sergey Brin
Freely chosen, discipline is absolute freedom.
- James C. Collins
Unrestrained competition can drive people into actions that they would otherwise regret.
- George Soros
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
- Dale Carnegie
One who starts a business without written plans of any kind, without a pro-forma or any concept of their overall profitability per customer, yet believes that if they work hard enough and give enough money away to those in need that eventually they will not be in need.
- Clay Clark
God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.
- Joel Olsteen
Failures are life’s way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.
- Sara Blakely
We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That’s life. And it’s part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.
- Michael Bloomberg
E – Executions, how to get things done
- Jack Welch
It was the right thing to do.
- Phil Knight
The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
- Bill Gates
Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.
- Zig Ziglar
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
- John C. Maxwell
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
- Benjamin Franklin
es it’s thinner, but I wanted storage. I don’t have broadband at home, and you can’t get great broadband connection in hotels, so I carry all my personal media in the iPad. So I was hoping Apple has a 256GB iPad. I was hoping for more storage so I could put every episode of Big Bang Theory on my iPad. So I emailed my wife and said ‘nope, I don’t want one of those.
- Steve Wozniak
Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.
- Zig Ziglar
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
- Rupert Murdoch
[On the Nike logo] I don’t love it, but it will grow on me.
- Phil Knight
When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.
- Seth Godin
Whether it’s eight o’clock in the morning or eight o’clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.
- Zig Ziglar
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
- Steve Wozniak
In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
- Bill Gates
A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.
- George Soros
The Internet economy continues to create unprecedented growth opportunities for people, companies and countries on a global basis.
- John Chambers
The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.
- Bill Gates
The industrialist (your boss, perhaps) demands that everything be proven, efficient, and risk free. The artist seeks none of these. The value of art is in your willingness to stare down the risk and to embrace the void of possible failure.
- Seth Godin
Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.
- Bill Gates
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
- Bill Gates
Before spending time on a stress-inducing question or problem, consider this: If you can’t define it or act upon it, forget it.
- Timothy Ferriss
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you have the right staff, potential skyrockets.
- Napoleon Hill
Rule No.1: Never lose money.Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
- Warren Buffett
I’m not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.
- Celine Dion
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- Henry Ford
What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.
- Thomas Edison
The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
- Zig Ziglar
Technological advance seemed to accelerate automatically, so the Boomers grew up with great expectations but few specific plans for how to fulfill them.
- Peter Thiel
In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.
- John Erskine
I like money, but it’s never been about the money.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Same problem as every Hollywood studio: how can you reliably produce a constant stream of popular entertainment for a fickle audience? (Nobody knows.)
- Peter Thiel
Maybe you’ve invested a lot of time, effort, money, emotion, and energy in a relationship; you did your best to make it work out. But for some reason, things got off course. And now you feel as though you have been robbed. When we focus on or disappointments, we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.
- Joel Olsteen
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.
- Winston Churchill
China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.
- Bill Gates
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
- Dale Carnegie
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
- Seth Godin
Never, never, never give in!
- Winston Churchill
The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
- Andrew Carnegie
I’ve been an entrepreneur since I was 18. I started a company with a bunch of buddies that got funded in my senior year, and that’s when I finished school. It was called Scour, a peer-to-peer service, file-sharing.
- Travis Kalanick
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
- Winston Churchill
It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, an Inner Temple lawyer, now become a seditious fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceregal Palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor.
- Winston Churchill
Russia is not a homogenous country, it’s a very fragmented country.
- Alexei Mordashov
Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.
- Zig Ziglar
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield
We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.
- Joel Olsteen
So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.
- Peter Drucker
The fatal temptation is to describe your market extremely narrowly so that you dominate it by definition.
- Peter Thiel
Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money, it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?
- Joel Olsteen
Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic
- Timothy Ferriss
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
We have a go-to-hell fund. In other words, we have accumulated enough wealth to live without working for ten or more years. Thus, those of us with a net worth of $1.6 million could live comfortably for more than twelve years. Actually, we could live longer than that, since we save at least 15 percent of our earned income.
- Thomas J Stanley
Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
- Bill Gates
You learn more in failure than you ever do in success.
- Jay-Z
Safari, so goody.
- Winston Churchill
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
- Yoda
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don’t have to work hard.
- Jack Welch
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
- Jack Welch
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody’s got to pay for them so they’re a necessary evil.
- Michael Bloomberg
Follow these five decision steps when hiring someone: Understand the job, consider three to five people, study candidates performance records to find their strengths, talk to the candidates’ colleagues about them, and once hired, explain the assignment to the new employee.
- Peter Drucker
When interviewing candidates, it’s helpful to watch for small distinctions that indicate whether they view the world through the “me” prism or the “team” prism.
- Ben Horowitz
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate’s knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth.
- Ben Horowitz
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
- Winston Churchill
Do or do not. There is no try.
- Yoda
It’s not about toughness, it’s not about attitude. Companies don’t fail for lack of cash or attitude. Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.
- Mark Cuban
You’re not being responsible with what God gave you if you’re hanging out with time wasters who have no goals and no dreams.
- Joel Olsteen
