Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Notable Quotables
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you’re too inefficient.
- Sam Walton
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
- Seth Godin
I’m a genetic optimist.
- Jeff Bezos
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.
- Winston Churchill
And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that’s there.
- Steve Ballmer
Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.
- Nelson Mandela
The foundation of the Germanic system was blood and kin.
- Winston Churchill
We must … balance the fact that innovation inside the network is just as important as innovation in services and devices connected to the Internet. Broadband Internet access service providers should remain free to engage in pro-competitive network management techniques to alleviate congestion, ameliorate capacity constraints, and enable new services.
- John Chambers
I have worked at Nike and its predecessor company for 48 years. Some might call me a short timer.
- Phil Knight
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
- W. Clement Stone
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
- Ray Kroc
It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.
- Joel Olsteen
Always pass on what you have learned.
- Yoda
Time – the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Revolution has values, revolution has purpose. Revolution has direction. Revolution has leaders. Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing. And it doesn’t always have to be loud. It doesn’t always have to be violent. It’s just as powerful in it’s stillness.
- Jack Dorsey
My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.’
- Richard Branson
What we want to watch is whether this is a short-term bump or not.
- John Chambers
Humility is becoming a lost art, but it’s not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.
- Harvey Mackay
I want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar. When you type things into Google search, it corrects your words. With speech, I want it to be general enough, smart enough, to know ‘No, he couldn’t have meant these words that I think he said. He must have really meant something similar.’
- Steve Wozniak
Infrastructure web services had to happen.
- Jeff Bezos
No company has a culture, every company is a culture.
- Peter Thiel
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.
- Seth Godin
When you are tempted to get discouraged, remind yourself that according to God’s word, your future is getting brighter; you are on your way to a new level of glory. You may think you’ve got a long way to go, but you need to look back at how far you’ve already come. You may not be everything you want to be but atleast you can thank God that you’re not what you used to be.
- Joel Olsteen
You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
- Elon Musk
People buy titles, and not contents of books. By merely changing the name of one book that was not moving his sales on that book jumped upward more a million copies. The inside of the book was no changed in any way. He merely ripped off the cover bearing the title that did not sell, and put on new cover with a title that had box-office value.
- Napoleon Hill
Linchpins are the essential building blocks of tomorrow’s high-value organizations. They don’t bring capital or expensive machinery, nor do they blindly follow instructions and merely contribute labor. Linchpins are indispensable, the driving force of our future.
- Seth Godin
The people who skip the hard questions are in the majority, but they are not in demand.
- Seth Godin
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
- Seth Godin
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.
- Mukesh Ambani
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
- Robert Frost
Present my story and the difficulties that I have faced. As an entrepreneur, a CEO.
- Ben Horowitz
Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten.
- Anonymous
My children – in many dimensions they’re as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I’ve got my kids brainwashed: You don’t use Google, and you don’t use an iPod.
- Steve Ballmer
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
- Winston Churchill
In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don’t have that in the rocket business. There’s no Foxconn in the rocket business.
- Elon Musk
I can’t really comment on rumors.
- Larry Page
When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.
- Sergey Brin
There are no rules here — we’re trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas Edison
Over the course of your career, your Detroit will surely call you at one point or another. If you can go, that’s great. If you can’t, make peace with the reasons why.
- Jack Welch
As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot.
- Ray Kroc
I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one’s children. It’s not constructive for them.
- Bill Gates
Everything rises and falls on leadership.
- John C. Maxwell
When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.
- Zig Ziglar
I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I’m afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.
- Stephen Wynn
Luck Follows Persistence.
- Jim Collins
I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‘Molecular Biology of the Gene.
- Bill Gates
What you sow you reap. What you give.
- Zig Ziglar
If what others say doesn’t match what God has put in your heart, let it go in one ear and out the other.
- Joel Olsteen
It’s not time,” “Take it easy,” “Wait and see,” “It’s someone else’s turn” – none of these stalls are appropriate for a leader in search of change. There’s a small price for being too early, but a huge penalty for being too late. The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.
- Seth Godin
In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn’t necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.
- Seth Godin
The group has continued to dedicate itself to its core businesses in property, infrastructure development, hotel operations and telecommunications. As for our operations in China, we expect to reap good returns from the investments in infrastructure, government housing and city core redevelopment projects as time goes by. Our strategic foothold in telecommunications will allow us to become an important player in the telecom industry.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Sometimes, your friend can influence you more than your mother.
- Lee Shau Kee
There is no middle ground: either don’t throw any punches, or strike hard and end it quickly.
- Peter Thiel
If you focus on diversification instead of single-minded pursuit of the very few companies that can become overwhelmingly valuable, you’ll miss those rare companies in the first place.
- Peter Thiel
On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
- Joel Olsteen
Leaders never outgrow the need to change.
- John C. Maxwell
Trust your instincts
- Estée Lauder
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.
- Warren Buffett
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.
- Elon Musk
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield
A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate
- Seth Godin
If you know you have to wait anyway, why not make a decision to enjoy your life while you’re waiting? Why not be happy while God is in the process of changing things? After all, there’s nothing we can really do to make it happen any faster. We might as well relax and enjoy our lives, knowing that at the appointed time God is going to bring his plan to pass.
- Joel Olsteen
By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives.
- Zig Ziglar
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
- John D. Rockefeller
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
- Napoleon Hill
One out of every five page views in the United States is on Facebook!
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
- Winston Churchill
Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
- Sara Blakely
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
- Napoleon Hill
I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.
- Russell Simmons
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The knowledge worker is not poverty-prone. He is in danger of alienation, to use the fashionable word for boredom, frustration, and silent despair.
- Peter Drucker
I was afraid of the internet… because I couldn’t type.
- Jack Welch
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
We don’t have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it’s important to be with our family and friends.
- Sara Blakely
You can expect what you accept.
- Anonymous
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
One who knows God is going to bless them, despite the fact that they have no idea how to actually raise capital or solve a real problem that people have in exchange for monetary compensation. They love the idea of business ownership, yet fear working, as though doing any actual work or rendering any tangible service or product might ruin their lives on this planet and for eternity.
- Clay Clark
Number one, cash is king… number two, communicate… number three, buy or bury the competition.
- Jack Welch
I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape – almost fractal.
- Jack Dorsey
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers Their name alone can practically guarantee hit records.
- Richard Branson
We do lots of Stuff. The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.
- Sergey Brin
I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I’m just not that kind of dude.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
- Sam Walton
All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.
- Andrew Carnegie
If your product requires advertising or salespeople to sell it, it’s not good enough: technology is primarily about product development, not distribution. Bubble-era advertising was obviously wasteful, so the only sustainable growth is viral growth.
- Peter Thiel
Checks should be endorsed immediately: FOR DEPOSIT ONLY.
- Robert Kiyosaki
You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.
- Larry Ellison
When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
- Carl Icahn
Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.
- Zig Ziglar
God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.
- Joel Olsteen
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
- Russell Simmons
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
- Andrew Carnegie
When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
- Bill Gates
