There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.
- Winston Churchill
Notable Quotables
What gets measured gets managed.
- Peter Drucker
We receive what we believe.
- Joel Olsteen
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
- Jack Welch
In the Next Society’s corporation, top management will be the company. Everything else can be outsourced.
- Peter Drucker
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier.
- Bill Gates
It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
- Michael Bloomberg
The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.
- Jeff Bezos
If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
- Donald Trump
There are many different kinds of PCs. You have fixed, virtual, tablets, notebooks, ultrabooks, desktops, workstations. What you find in commercial PCs, business PCs, is that there’s a really long tail of usage on client devices.
- Michael Dell
I love building technology, I love programming. I love building teams. And I also love building beautiful things.
- Jack Dorsey
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
- Napoleon Hill
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill
Everyone deserves at least a chance to make things better. And besides people can surprise you.
- David Novak
Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
- Zig Ziglar
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.
- Steve Jobs
In some ways, running a successful business is a bit like coaching a football team. The fundamentals of football are blocking and tackling. The fundamentals of a business are it’s governing policies andprocesses. To carry out the metaphor, touchdowns are profits. The best business idea in the world cannot survive bad execution. So when you sit down to develop your workflow, internal policies, and business structure, be merciless, probe for weaknesses and assume that the worst will happen. – Jack Nadel (Author&Entrepreneur)
- Jack Nadel
If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
I like the fact that I can meet anyone now and have a conversation.
- Larry Page
I love great music and art, but I think ‘cubist’ songs and paintings are hideous.
- Thomas Edison
So, the judgment that you have to make is (a) is this market really much bigger (more than an order of magnitude) than has been exploited to date? and (b) are we going to be number one? If the answer to either (a) or (b) is no, then you should consider selling.
- Ben Horowitz
My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.
- Joel Olsteen
We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
- Steve Jobs
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
- Harvey Mackay
I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.
- Jerry Seinfeld
America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you’ll be valued highly.
- Tadashi Yanai
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
- Jack Welch
My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.
- Winston Churchill
The few who knew what might be learned, Foolish enough to put their whole heart on show, And reveal their feelings to the crowd below, Mankind has always crucified and burned.
- Peter Thiel
Most of our wives are planners and meticulous budgeters. In fact, only 18 percent of us disagreed with the statement Charity begins at home. Most of us will tell you that our wives are a lot more conservative with money than we are.
- Thomas J Stanley
There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, ‘Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?
- Sara Blakely
In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.
- Reed Hastings
Look after the customers and the business will take care of itself.
- Ray Kroc
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can’t be too worried about what they’re told at their country clubs.
- Rupert Murdoch
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
- Azim Premji
Daca ceea ce doriti sa faceti este corect si credeti in el, porniti spre implinire! Puneti visele inainte, si nu conteaza ce spune gura lumii daca va confruntati cu infrangerea temporara, caci poate ca lumea nu stie ca orice esec aduce cu el germenele unui eventual succes.
- Dale Carnegie
For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.
- Timothy Ferriss
This approach appeals to the media’s innate curiosity.Whereas a fastball stresses logic over emotion, the curveball stresses emotion over logic.
- Michael Levine
Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
- John C. Maxwell
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It’s really a great invention and I wouldn’t under-estimate the value of that, but they’re not designed to take care of social needs.
- George Soros
One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.
- Jeff Bezos
Every noteworthy achievement met with some sort of temporary setback before success came.
- Napoleon Hill
If you do not see yourself as a winner, you cannot perform as a winner.
- Zig Ziglar
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
- Zig Ziglar
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
- Warren Buffett
China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn’t China involved? They’re going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we’re spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn’t China involved with Libya? That – we don’t get oil from Libya, China does.
- Donald Trump
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Steve Jobs
Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don’t focus on work or solving problems constantly.
- Harvey Mackay
Value is achieved primarily through frontline employees who are satisfied, loyal, and productive, in part because of the high degree of capability they possess to deliver results to customers
- Service Profit Chain
What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you’re going to have enormous impact on America, that’s a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.
- Michael Bloomberg
It certainly wasn’t where we were planning to be.
- Simon Wolfson
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
Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it.
- Rick Warren
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
We are in the process of creating a group that has a broader business mix, better quality income streams and a stronger balance sheet. In doing so, our risk profile is spread out and we can better explore the growth potential across our five core businesses – property, hotels, infrastructure, services and telecommunications.
- Cheng Yu-tung
This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
- Seth Godin
I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.
- Rupert Murdoch
1815 to 1914 was a period of both rapid technological development and rapid globalization.
- Peter Thiel
Network effects businesses must start with especially small markets.
- Peter Thiel
Common Core is a big win for education.
- Bill Gates
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
- Winston Churchill
Who told you that something was wrong with you?
- Joel Olsteen
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
- Bill Gates
God, You said Your favor is not for a season but for a lifetime.
- Joel Olsteen
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
Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.
- Steve Jobs
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
- Thomas J Watson
One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
P – Passion, you care about the team, passion and players
- Jack Welch
Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
- Elon Musk
Africa is on the rise.
- Bill Gates
I read a lot of history, biographies, science, and novels ushering a reporter out the door with a hint of relief. I do not read management or economics.
- Peter Drucker
With sustained recovery of the local economy, marked improvement in consumer spending and increasing tourist arrivals from Mainland China, these led to the expansion of certain local retail trades including cosmetics, audio-visual products and jewellery which in turn boosted the demand for retail shop spaces.
- Lee Shau Kee
You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
- Jeff Bezos
Establish late-payment penalties as part of your terms and conditions and enforce them.
- Robert Kiyosaki
To succeed consistently, good managers need to be skilled not just in choosing, training, and motivating the right people for the right job, but in choosing, building, and preparing the right organization for the job as well.
- Clayton M. Christensen
The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ’cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
- Bill Gates
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as ‘community entrepreneurship.’
- Donald Bren
Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
- Sam Walton
Don’t do the natural thing, the impulsive thing. That is usually wrong.
- Dale Carnegie
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
Every dream I’ve ever had in life has come true ten times over.
- Steve Wozniak
As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don’t disrupt: avoid competition as much as possible.
- Peter Thiel
I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.
- Joel Olsteen
Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.
- Peter Thiel
We were guerilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit.
- Phil Knight
Fail openly.
- Jack Dorsey
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
- Thomas Edison
Statistics doesn’t work when the sample size is one.
- Peter Thiel
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
- Thomas Edison
The single greatest danger for a founder is to become so certain of his own myth that he loses his mind. But an equally insidious danger for every business is to lose all sense of myth and mistake disenchantment for wisdom.
- Peter Thiel
Nobody enjoys the ‘little show about nothing’ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.
- Jerry Seinfeld
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, ‘Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.’
- Howard Schultz
Through the Force, things you will see. Other places. The future…the past. Old friends long gone.
- Yoda
1. What is our mission?2. Who is our customer?3. What does the customer value?4. What are our results?5. What is our plan?
- Peter Drucker
Contenerse es casi como robar.
- Neil Young
It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
- Joel Olsteen
Why do you ask so much?
- Lee Shau Kee
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas, but the image is that they all come from the top. I’m afraid that’s not quite right.
- Bill Gates
