If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.
- Jack Welch
Notable Quotables
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
- Zig Ziglar
Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
- John C. Maxwell
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
- Ben Horowitz
And we know that in ALL things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:28
For PayPal to work, we needed to attract a critical mass of at least a million users. Advertising was too ineffective to justify the cost. Prospective deals with big banks kept falling through. So we decided to pay people to sign up. We gave new customers $10 for joining, and we gave them $10 more every time they referred a friend. This got us hundreds of thousands of new customers and an exponential growth rate.
- Peter Thiel
You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn’t work. And what’s good theater and what’s good politics isn’t necessarily good economic policy.
- Michael Bloomberg
Ally yourself with a group of as many people as you may need for the creation and carrying out of your plan or plans for the accumulation of money…Compliance with this instruction is absolutely essential. Do not neglect it.
- Napoleon Hill
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
- Bill Gates
of preparing for defeat, prepare for victory. Prepare for increase. Prepare for God’s favor. You have to set the tone at the start of each day.
- Joel Olsteen
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
- Sheldon Adelson
In this sense, if nothing about our society changes for the next 100 years, then the future is over 100 years away.
- Peter Thiel
Count your blessings—not your troubles!
- Dale Carnegie
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Darwin Smith stands as a classic example of what we came to call a Level 5 leader—an individual who blends extreme personal humility with intense professional will.
- James C. Collins
I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter how many times you failed…You only have to be right once…I was an idiot lots of times, and I learned from them all.
- Mark Cuban
If the executive lets the flow of events determine what he does, what he works on, and what he takes seriously, he will fritter himself away “operating.” He may be an excellent man. But he is certain to waste his knowledge and ability and to throw away what little effectiveness he might have achieved. What the executive needs are criteria which enable him to work on the truly important, that is, on contributions and results, even though the criteria are not found in the flow of events.
- Peter Drucker
I don’t know why you should be proud of something. It doesn’t make you any better or worse. You are what you are.
- Michael Bloomberg
I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
- Joel Olsteen
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.
- Jerry Seinfeld
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot.
- Paul Theroux
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
- Napoleon Hill
If your business is not a brand, it is just a commodity.
- Donald Trump
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
- Napoleon Hill
But there is no reason why technology should be limited to computers. Properly understood, any new and better way of doing things is technology.
- Peter Thiel
Seeing his education soley in utilitarian terms, he studied hard, but showed no intellectual playfulness.
- Ron Chernow
Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.
- Harvey Mackay
I can become someone’s miracle.
- Joel Olsteen
There’s plenty of room at the top but not enough room to sit down.
- Zig Ziglar
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
- Og Mandino
Learn to listen and think.
- Jack Nadel
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates
Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda’s international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.
- Wang Jianlin
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
- Peter Drucker
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, “If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea.” Churchill’s response, “Ma’am if you were my wife I would drink it.
- Winston Churchill
I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.
- Seth Godin
The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
- Dale Carnegie
I’ll trade glib for common sense any day.
- Stephen Wynn
The goal is to be able to live your life the way Michael Jordan played basketball, or Marvin Gaye sang a song. To be able to feel the way you feel when you laugh at a joke, but to feel that way all the time.
- Russell Simmons
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.
- Henry Ford
m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.
- Elon Musk
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
- Zig Ziglar
Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
- Steve Jobs
We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
- Bill Gates
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
- Peter Drucker
Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that’s right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that’s better than television in terms of social connectivity.
- Reid Hoffman
Never forget, the real secret of giving advice is this: Once you’ve given it, don’t concern yourself with whether it is followed or not, and refrain from saying ‘I told you so.’
- Harvey Mackay
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.
- Zig Ziglar
This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It’s not politically viable; it’s not morally right; it’s just not going to happen.
- Michael Bloomberg
Look – this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do – ultimately, you’re at the end.
- Ben Horowitz
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
- Zig Ziglar
I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.
- Warren Buffett
The fact is, everyone is in sales.
- Jay Abraham
While the uncertainties that the economic climate holds are a challenge for all companies, we are confident that by drawing from the strengths of our people, as well as on our core values of quality, initiative, trust and creativity, we will maintain our focus and strategic direction.
- Cheng Yu-tung
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
- Oprah Winfrey
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
- Henry Ford
I don’t go down the road of condemning.
- Joel Olsteen
I don’t like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night.
- Leonardo Del Vecchio
In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.
- Bill Gates
The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.
- Zig Ziglar
The Group has three areas. The first is Henderson Land the listed company. Now it has a total developable land bank of 75 million square feet of gross floor area in China. I hope that in the next two or three months that figure can rise to 150 million square feet. That would be a remarkable feet. So, Henderson is one hope. The second is Hong Kong and China Gas, which I also have high hopes for. In the mainland we already have had many projects in 12 cities there. No, actually I mean, we have projects in 55 cities in 12 provinces. Probably about 60 in total that we are working on. So that is the second area. The third area or hope is Shau Kee Finance. It’s assets have already doubled from $50 billion and I hope they can double again to $200 billion.
- Lee Shau Kee
Ethical decisions ensure that everyone’s best interests are protected. When in doubt, don’t.
- Harvey Mackay
When you’ve got a strong enough why, you can always find the how.
- Zig Ziglar
Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
- Zig Ziglar
China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.
- Bill Gates
I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
- Elon Musk
Bury your mistakes.
- Rupert Murdoch
I’ve actually not read any books on time management.
- Elon Musk
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
- Reid Hoffman
I DECLARE I will live victoriously. I was created in the image of God. I have the DNA of a winner. I am wearing a crown of favor. Royal blood flows through my veins. I am the head, never the tail, above never beneath. I will live with purpose, passion, and praise, knowing that I was destined to live in victory. This is my declaration.
- Joel Olsteen
On my grandfather’s tombstone, you will find his favorite Marx quote: “Life is struggle.” I believe that within that quote lies the most important lesson in entrepreneurship: Embrace the struggle.
- Ben Horowitz
I always follow 4E’s wrapped in a ‘P’.
- Jack Welch
With the right pitch, you’ll get no argument. This is where the salesmanship comes in…It requires of you a substantial degree of self-confidence to pull it off, but your belief in your own project will help you muster that.
- Michael Levine
My biggest crisis is that I don’t understand what young people like.
- Ma Huateng
You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.
- Bill Gates
You have to get all agreements in writing.
- Jack Nadel
I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places – or even the same place – people will turn the other way.
- Rupert Murdoch
I’m a genetic optimist.
- Jeff Bezos
Remember the proverb of Solomon: “He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
- P.T. Barnum
Hard things are hard because there are no easy answers or recipes. They are hard because your emotions are at odds with your logic. They are hard because you don’t know the answer and you cannot ask for help without showing weakness.
- Ben Horowitz
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
- Ben Horowitz
The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits.
- Winston Churchill
Faith is easy. I think people complicate it.
- Joel Olsteen
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I’m trying to change the culture in New York City, that’s hard enough!
- Michael Bloomberg
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield
Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn’t like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.
- Wang Jianlin
I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.
- Joel Olsteen
Amazon made its first 10x improvement in a particularly visible way: they offered at least 10 times as many books as any other bookstore.
- Peter Thiel
Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
- Zig Ziglar
Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats.
- Jim Collins
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
- Elon Musk
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
You have to learn to follow your heart. You can’t let other people pressure you into being something that you’re not. If you want God’s favor in your life, you must be the person He made you to be, not the person your boss wants you to be, not even the person your parents or your husband wants you to be. You can’t let outside expectations keep you from following your own heart.
- Joel Olsteen
I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.
- Richard Branson
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
- Bill Gates
Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage.
- Howard Schultz





