Here’s a statistician joke for your next hot date: Person A: What happens when Bill Gates walks into a bar of 55 people? Person B: I don’t know. What? Person A: The average net worth jumps to more than a billion dollars!
- Timothy Ferriss
Notable Quotables
Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholesome food offerings.
- Howard Schultz
Madness is however an affliction which in war carries with it the advantage of SURPRISE.
- Winston Churchill
Don’t take anyone for granted.
- Jack Dorsey
Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don’t recover because trust is broken. And if you’re not honest at the point where you’re breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.
- Ben Horowitz
Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.
- John C. Maxwell
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
- James C. Collins
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.
- Sergey Brin
Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing, right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn’t remarkable, it’s invisible.
- Seth Godin
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.
- Winston Churchill
Appreciation – Learn to give flowers while people are still living.
- Joel Olsteen
Personally, I just hope that my family keeps getting bigger and bigger. That would make me very happy.
- Lee Shau Kee
Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
- Bill Gates
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep form meddling with them while they do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I’ve always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.
- Sara Blakely
Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.
- Alexei Mordashov
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
- Og Mandino
Pick the best people, face the reality (the way it is), speak with candor to everything, never lose sight of the relationship with the constituency.
- Jack Welch
thoughtless reliance on technology is a liability.
- James C. Collins
The most obvious market segment in email-based payments was the millions of emigrants still using Western Union to wire money to their families back home. Our product made that effortless, but the transactions were too infrequent.
- Peter Thiel
Small businesses don’t exist without the nucleus.
- Bryan Smith
I’m killing two birds at once, so to speak. Animal-based food kills people. This way, by going vegan… we get healthy and save animals. I’m being selfish, too, because if I can get my employees healthier, we cut down on sick days and gain more productivity.
- Stephen Wynn
Younglings, younglings gather ’round.
- Yoda
An individual artist needs only a thousand true fans in her tribe. It’s enough.
- Seth Godin
A false transaction using my own people to buy the flat? I’ll make a bet with you. For every $10,000 you put down, I’ll wager $1 million.
- Lee Shau Kee
A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
- Peter Thiel
A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
- John C. Maxwell
Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You’re the only one who can do it permanently.
- Zig Ziglar
The love of a foster mother for her charge appears absolutely irrational.
- Winston Churchill
He will give you strength for every battle, wisdom for every decision, peace that passes understanding. God will vindicate you for the wrongs that have been done. He will pay you back for unfair situations. He promised He will not only bring your dreams to pass but He will give you even the secret desires of your heart. Dare to trust Him. Come back to that place of peace. Quit being worried, stressed out, wondering if it will happen. God has you in the palm of His hand. He has never once failed before, and the good news is He is not about to start now.
- Joel Olsteen
You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
- Seth Godin
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
- Walt Disney
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see and who sees before others see.
- Leroy Eimes
We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
- Dale Carnegie
Live creatively, friends. . . . Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others” (Galatians 6:1, 4).
- Zig Ziglar
Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.
- Elon Musk
I’ve got some good days, I’ve got some bad. (But my) game has definitely improved.
- Ed Clark
I have asked thousands of business people to smile at someone every hour of the day for a week and then come to class and talk about the results.
- Dale Carnegie
If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.
- Pierre Omidyar
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
We let folks know we’re interested in them and that they’re vital to us. cause they are.
- Sam Walton
I think alot about money when I do not have it.
- Stacy Thorn
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
- Thomas Edison
The recovering economic environment will lead to an increase in local demand for home purchases and the purchasing power which has accumulated in the past two years due to uncertainty surrounding the local economy will result in increased demand for residential properties, particularly for residential units of small to medium size which match well with your [Henderson] Group’s property development focus.
- Lee Shau Kee
If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
- Seth Godin
Hewlett Packard Chairman Built Company by Design, Calculator by Chance.
- James C. Collins
This book, then, is a product of the last fifteen years, as well as a product of the fifteen years that preceded them. It was almost exactly eight years before The E-Myth was published that I founded our company, E-Myth Worldwide, which has provided the fuel and experience for the point of view I have shared with those of you who have read The E-Myth, and with those.
- Michael Gerber
I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.
- Jack Dorsey
Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.
- Joel Olsteen
Corporations that navigate through these rough times will prosper as the region inevitably enters a new era of prosperity.
- Cheng Yu-tung
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
What’s happening is that the two groups assume that the nature of the debate is really a matter of disagreement about their own sides’ core issues. Each side is assuming that people in the other group oppose what they hold most dear to themselves – what’s most important to their side – but in fact their adversaries really don’t oppose them.
- John Chambers
I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.
- Winston Churchill
Employees were invited to send complaints or suggestions directly to him and he always took an interest in their affairs. He was the best employer of his time, instituting hospitalization and retirement pensions. He was a fine boss if workers abided by the rules, but if they did something foolish, like show interest in a union, they promptly forfeited his sympathy. Rockefeller never acknowledged the legitamacy of organized labor, nor did he tolerate union organizers on his premises.
- Ron Chernow
To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.
- Zig Ziglar
To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big.
- Aliko Dangote
Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington.
- Stephen Wynn
The first step is to establish that something is possible, then probability will occur.
- Elon Musk
Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
- Donald Trump
Most of a tech company’s value will come at least 10 to 15 years in the future.
- Peter Thiel
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
- Henry Ford
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
- Bill Gates
The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
- Bill Gates
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Write like you talk. Often.
- Seth Godin
The courage take tough yes-or-no decisions. Look, the world is filled with gray. Anyone can look at an issue from every different angle. Some smart people can –and will-analyze those angles indefinitely. But effective people know when to stop assessing and make a tough call, even without total information.
- Jack Welch
It’s a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven’t got any other business interests.
- Rupert Murdoch
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
- W. Clement Stone
When marketing put yourself in the shoes of the customer.
- David Novak
Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn’t at least two of the four. I read the front-page headlines through.
- Timothy Ferriss
Rule No.1: Never lose money.Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
- Warren Buffett
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work….
- Thomas Edison
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man’s character.
- Thomas Edison
I am proof that you can you make money in Italy and be honest.
- Leonardo Del Vecchio
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
Sam hired me in 1970 as a district manager in charge of new store openings. He had eighteen Wal-Marts and some variety stores doing about $31 million a year. I moved my family and as the van was unloading furniture into our rented house, they called from the office and said, Can you set up this new store in Missouri? My wife, who had three babies and a moving van to deal with, helped me find some clothes and I left. I didn’t see her again for two weeks. Then there was a managers’ meeting so I didn’t see her again for two more weeks. It would be safe to say that in those days we all worked a minimum of 16 hours a day.
- Jack Shewmaker
Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
- Warren Buffett
You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.
- Joel Olsteen
Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.
- Joel Olsteen
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
- Winston Churchill
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
- John C. Maxwell
Early must I rise. Leave now you must!
- Yoda
The way of the warrior: keep death in mind at all times. If a warrior keeps death in mind at all times and lives as though each day might be his last, he will conduct himself properly in all his actions.
- Principle of the Bushido
Great design = getting people to do what you want.
- Seth Godin
Use your feelings, Obi-Wan, and find him you will.
- Yoda
I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.
- Joel Olsteen
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
- Sam Walton
Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.
- Peter Drucker
I’ll trade glib for common sense any day.
- Stephen Wynn
Great foresight is required to run a multinational corporation. A magnificent blueprint, a loyal team and a well-coordinated organization are the three indispensable factors, and the same applies from ruling a country to maintaining a family.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.
- Timothy Ferriss
At the start of any business, keeping the cash flowing in is the entrepreneur’s most IMPORTANT JOB.
- Robert Kiyosaki
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
One evening, intending to ask my host mother to wake me the next morning (okosu), I ask her to violently rape me (okasu). She is very confused.
- Timothy Ferriss
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. … The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?
- Larry Ellison
A healthy company culture encourages people to share bad news. A company that discusses its problems freely and openly can quickly solve them.
- Ben Horowitz
It’s easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.
- Zig Ziglar
