The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Notable Quotables
I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration!
- Sara Blakely
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Steve Jobs
You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You’ll know it when you hit a home run.
- Steve Wozniak
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
- Ben Horowitz
No one can predict the future exactly, but we know two things: it’s going to be different, and it must be rooted in today’s world.
- Peter Thiel
If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
- Donald Trump
Disruptive technology should be framed as a marketing challenge, not a technological one.
- Clayton M. Christensen
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
- Peter Drucker
Shaw once remarked: If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
- Dale Carnegie
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.
- Winston Churchill
Whenever you are speaking, both your passion for your business and your appearance will have a lasting impact on your audience.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Well, we’re about 24 million subscribers today, and that’s up from about 15 million a year ago, so it’s a very high rate of growth, and that’s what’s exciting about the business – more and more people are getting smart TVs, they’re watching Netflix on their iPads.
- Reed Hastings
You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.
- Harvey Mackay
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
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
- Og Mandino
People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
- Azim Premji
Tell them to grab on to the career that engages their brain and heart and soul and gives them meaning. Tell them that eventually, the money will come, and if it doesn’t, in time, they will find themselves rich with something money can’t buy. And that, obviously, would be happiness.
- Jack Welch
I’m not as interested in what you make as I am in what you’re passionate about. What business are you really in?
- Howard Schultz
Winners expect to win, they expect victory, and they expect success!
- Zig Ziglar
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
- Zig Ziglar
The real benefit of having goals is what you become by reaching them.
- Zig Ziglar
That’s the hard thing about hard things—there is no formula for dealing with them.
- Ben Horowitz
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
- Seth Godin
If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
- Elon Musk
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
- Oprah Winfrey
Marketing is a contest for people’s attention.
- Seth Godin
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
- Jack Nadel
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
- Walt Disney
What a great thrill it will be for fans of all generations to see these NASCAR superheroes together again at Atlanta Motor Speedway. With 405 victories between them, each and every one played an integral role in making NASCAR the tremendous success it is today.
- Ed Clark
I never hid my thoughts or feelings. During a business meeting I could get so emotionally charged and involved that I’d stammer out what others might consider to be outrageous things like, My six year old could do better than that! Or Don’t Walter Cronkite me!
- Solutions
Making money from money is like aerobatics.
- Alisher Usmanov
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
- Ben Horowitz
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
- Confucius
If you’re a Wal-Mart of a Meijer you can draw the shoppers without using signs to advertise your specials, … But when you’re a little guy, you really depend on those signs.
- Michael Ward
Try to build bridges of understanding. Don’t build higher barriers of misunderstanding.
- Dale Carnegie
We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas Edison
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It’s the image, not what you sing.
- Rod Stewart
Disruptive technologies typically enable new markets to emerge.
- Clayton M. Christensen
We don’t know exactly how it will work. Advertisers want greater access, better accountability.
- Sergey Brin
The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.
- Elon Musk
After the decline in the past few years, the worst moment in the economy of Hong Kong is now behind us. The local property market is expected to show a steady upward trend as from this point.
- Lee Shau Kee
Few startup advisers and venture capitalists have any experience.
- Ben Horowitz
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
- Benjamin Franklin
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
- Peter Drucker
You will never change what you tolerate.
- Joel Olsteen
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult.
- Alexei Mordashov
So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
- Joel Olsteen
Separate performance from people.
- David Robinson
When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.
- Lakshmi Mittal
It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
- Vagit Alekperov
Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.
- Jack Dorsey
Plant a seed of greatness in your children. Speak a word of encourgement to someone who needs to hear it. Inspire someone to be a better person. One day you’ll reap a harvest, and your world will become a better place to live.
- George Foreman
I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.
- Bill Gates
The majority of people begin to drift as soon as they meet with opposition, and not one out of ten thousand (people) will keep on trying after failing two or three times.
- Napoleon Hill
I don’t want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.
- Joel Olsteen
I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What’s the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
- Larry Page
When you go through difficult times, make sure you pass the test. Don’t be stubborn and hardheaded. Recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges. Stand strong and fight the good fight of faith. God has called each of us to be champions; you are destined to win. If you will work with God and keep a good attitude, then no matter what comes against you, the bible says that all things – not just the good things in life, but all things – work together for your good.
- Joel Olsteen
The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.
- Winston Churchill
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them….
- Thomas Edison
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
You can expect the future to take a definite form or you can treat it as hazily uncertain. If you treat the future as something definite, it makes sense to understand it in advance and to work to shape it. But if you expect an indefinite future ruled by randomness, you’ll give up on trying to master it
- Peter Thiel
When your hobbies get in the way of your work – that’s OK, but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves… well.
- Steve Martin
The desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature.
- John Dewey
It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.
- Alisher Usmanov
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
Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed, A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden of weeds.
- John D. Rockefeller
Instead of trying to use your technology and expertise to make a better product for your users’ standard behavior, experiment with inviting the users to change their behavior to make the product work dramatically better.
- Seth Godin
When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.
- Winston Churchill
Who’s your Jedi master? WHO’S your Jedi Master?
- Yoda
Education is the key to unlock the Golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
The 1990’s sure aren’t like the 1980’s.
- Donald Trump
Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
- Richard Branson
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
- Jack Welch
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
- Steve Martin
Mentorship is a pain free way to learn.
- Paul Pressey
It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.
- John C. Maxwell
Establish late-payment penalties as part of your terms and conditions and enforce them.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked
- Warren Buffett
A successful manager told me that stopped wearing a watch. She found that the work was so immersive, anchoring it to whatever hour it happened to be was pointless. The watch reminded her of the rigors of appointments and the status quo, while her goal was to be there, right here, right now, in the moment, and to do the work in front of her. The watch had no role in doing that right, so, for now, it’s gone.
- Seth Godin
During this time I learned the most important rule of raising money privately: Look for a market of one. You only need one investor to say yes, so it’s best to ignore the other thirty who say “no.”
- Ben Horowitz
The thing that’s confusing for investors is that founders don’t know how to be CEO. I didn’t know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don’t know how to be CEOs, but it doesn’t mean they can’t learn. The question is… can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?
- Ben Horowitz
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
- Zig Ziglar
To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.
- Dale Carnegie
Ultimately, we wanted Nike to be the world’s best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don’t end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.
- Phil Knight
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
- Thomas Edison
It is becoming increasingly clear that the global economy is improving, … As customers feel more confident to invest, we believe that we are well positioned to provide compelling value as a strategic business adviser and technology partner.
- John Chambers
I had already started the learning process by organizing a tour of some of the best companies out there to find out exactly what it was that made them great. I went back to the Partners’ Council and asked them to help me study the best practices of the best companies we could find. We would then use then findings to strengthen our company.
- David Novak
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere
Trust your instincts
- Estée Lauder
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
- Zig Ziglar
Great opportunities can be and have been created during tough economic times.
- Howard Schultz
In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
- Reed Hastings
In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn’t get that job unless you were really worth it.
- Vagit Alekperov
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.
- Dale Carnegie
China is likely to sustain its pace of economic growth for the next decade.
- Cheng Yu-tung
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
- Peter Drucker
