Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.
- Michael Bloomberg
Notable Quotables
If you want people to know how much you care, show them how much you remember. Learn their names and use them often. It’s an important skill to develop.
- Harvey Mackay
All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
- Steve Wozniak
Treat them (the employees) well, but see that they work.
- John D. Rockefeller
I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
- Tony Robbins
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
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.
- George Soros
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
- John C. Maxwell
Talk in terms of the other person’s interests.
- Dale Carnegie
All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill
I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I’m happy to be one – or proud to be one.
- Michael Bloomberg
It enjoys strong network effects from its content ecosystem: thousands of developers write software for Apple devices because that’s where hundreds of millions of users are, and those users stay on the platform because it’s where the apps are.
- Peter Thiel
Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn’t bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: Wouldn’t you like to have that? Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?
- Dale Carnegie
If you end your training now — if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did — you will become an agent of evil.
- Yoda
I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
- Joel Olsteen
You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It’s starting to really become a cool thing for young people.
- Russell Simmons
When you make a promise, keep it.
- Zig Ziglar
The difference between blues, jazz, rock n’ roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It’s scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
- Russell Simmons
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It’s the image, not what you sing.
- Rod Stewart
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
- Oprah Winfrey
You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
- Zig Ziglar
When you do more than you’re paid for, eventually you’ll be paid for more than you do.
- Zig Ziglar
The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
- Tadashi Yanai
I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
- Jack Dorsey
I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.
- Bill Gates
Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.
- Sergey Brin
It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can’t make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.
- Michael Otto
I think growth covers up mistakes.
- Howard Schultz
It’s the next opportunity that keeps us motivated.
- Zig Ziglar
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
- Benjamin Franklin
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don’t.
- Reid Hoffman
When you look at a company that’s already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn’t necessarily when it’s executing well. It tends to be peacetime – you’ve defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.
- Ben Horowitz
Our customers call and e-mai us to say that’s how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that’s how we view this company.
- Tony Hsieh
I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realized that the toning and shaping was perfect and that the hosiery material is thin enough that I could make shape wear out of it.
- Sara Blakely
Measuring and establishing facts at every step of the process. Without facts, assumptions and misperceptions will defeat whatever reason and good judgment can be brought to effort
- Service Profit Chain
Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can’t control.
- Michael Bloomberg
I was hooked and I would make reward and recognition one of my primary focuses as a leader
- David Novak
When I hire someone, I try to get beneath the surface and go deep. The first question I ask is, Has this person demonstrated any leadership potential? I ask for specifics and probe carefully to find out exactly what that person contributed. After all, success has many fathers.’ I also look for enthusiasm, people who lean forward in their chairs, who get up on their haunches a little but when they talk about what they’ve done. I like to see the passion and the excitement because that’s what will allow someone to inspire others. The next thing I look for is an avid learners, someone who is curious, who has an ability to make connections, to pick up on trends, and to apply what’s going on in the rest of the world to his or her business career. You obviously need smart people with a proven track record, but the real stars are passionate about what they do and are avid learners. Those two things make people continually raise the bar on performance.
- David Novak
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
- Winston Churchill
We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
- Elon Musk
Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
- Zig Ziglar
At the same time, you have to look for detractors among the group because one bad seed can be like a leak in the dime that leads to a major flood. The best thing you can do when you find someone like that is to fire him as quickly as possible!
- David Novak
There are two types of people in the world. One type is known as leaders and the other as followers. Decide at the outset whether you intend to become a leader in your chose calling or remain a follower. The difference in compensation is vast. The follwer cannot reasonably expect the compensation to which a leader is entitled, although many followers make the mistake of expecting such pay.
- Napoleon Hill
It’s [the internet] like the flu – it just spreads like crazy.
- Jack Welch
Most of us don’t invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
- Sam Walton
The Chinese market is a very good expansion opportunity for us, and we will continue looking to buy stakes and make acquisitions.
- Dhanin Chearavanont
I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.
- Larry Page
I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
- Walt Disney
If you are unduly nervous, turn it around make your vulnerability an asset.
- Michael Levine
The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.
- Dale Carnegie
In a world of gigantic administrative bureaucracies both public and private, searching for a new path might seem like hoping for a miracle.
- Peter Thiel
I don’t believe in saturation. We’re thinking and talking worldwide.
- Ray Kroc
Nothing is as powerful as a changed mind,
- T.D Jakes
Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
- Reed Hastings
Christopher Colombus’ big mistake was that he was looking for a trade route to China, and accidentally bumped into America, the richest, most powerful country in the world.
- Robert Kiyosaki
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 thing about fashion – it’s like ducks going quack, quack quack. It’s being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.
- Sara Blakely
The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.
- Michael Bloomberg
If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive good.
- Russell Simmons
When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.
- Mark Zuckerberg
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.
- James Cameron
There is plenty capital available, just a shortage of good ideas
- Napoleon Hill
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
You can learn from everybody.
- Sam Walton
The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying
- John C. Maxwell
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
- Jack Welch
I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.
- Sara Blakely
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
- Thomas Edison
I don’t go down the road of condemning.
- Joel Olsteen
We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
- Bill Gates
You always hear the phrase, money doesn’t buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it’s not really true. I got a new car because the old one’s lease expired.
- Sergey Brin
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
- Jack Welch
What you get by achieving your goals is not nearly as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Zig Ziglar
Most good ideas are already out there, and to learn about them, all you have to do is ask the right people.
- David Novak
Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
- Zig Ziglar
Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away.
- Napoleon Hill
Indeed, the biggest winners in the world are those who answer yes to the question, “Am I living the life I choose?”
- Jack Welch
Innovation could impact everything…
- Jack Dorsey
Direct results always come first. In the care and feeding of an organization, they play the role calories play in the nutrition of the human body.
- Peter Drucker
As the Readers’s Digest once said: ‘Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.
- Dale Carnegie
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
That’s why hiring consultants doesn’t work. Part-time employees don’t work. Even working remotely should be avoided, because misalignment can creep in whenever colleagues aren’t together full-time, in the same place, every day. If you’re deciding whether to bring someone on board, the decision is binary. Ken Kesey was right: you’re either on the bus or off the bus.
- Peter Thiel
It’s difficult for any single company to develop all the applications and services.
- Ma Huateng
Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
- Zig Ziglar
As one’s fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void.
- Winston Churchill
There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.
- Michael Bloomberg
It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible. Just because you don’t see anything happening doesn’t mean God is not working.
- Joel Olsteen
We got so much better so quickly it was hard to believe. We totally stood Kmart off in those small towns of ours. Almost from the beginning, they weren’t very successful at taking our customers away in Jeff City and Poplar Bluff. Once Kmart arrived, we worked even harder at pleasing our customers, and they stayed loyal. This gave us a great surge of confidence in ourselves. But at that time our sales were 5 percent of Kmart’s. (through competition) Wal-Mart has lowered the gross margin in retailing from around 35 percent in the early 60s to only 22 percent today.
- Sam Walton
Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, “Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.
- Winston Churchill
Monopoly is therefore not a pathology or an exception. Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.
- Peter Thiel
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle
The other buzzword that epitomizes a bias toward substitution is “big data.” Today’s companies have an insatiable appetite for data, mistakenly believing that more data always creates more value. But big data is usually dumb data. Computers can find patterns that elude humans, but they don’t know how to compare patterns from different sources or how to interpret complex behaviors. Actionable insights can only come from a human analyst (or the kind of generalized artificial intelligence that exists only in science fiction).
- Peter Thiel
No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
- Seth Godin
In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
- Steve Wozniak
Properly run startups place a great deal of emphasis on recruiting and the interview process in order to build their talent base. Too often the investment in people stops there.
- Ben Horowitz
God wants you to have a good life, a life filled with love, joy, peace, and fulfillment. That doesn’t mean it will always be easy, but it does mean that it will always be good.
- Joel Olsteen
Don’t count the things you do. Do the things that count.
- Zig Ziglar
I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!
- Steve Wozniak
The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.
- Harvey Mackay
