We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
- Lakshmi Mittal
Notable Quotables
You want your customers to value your service.
- Jeff Bezos
I like definitive things.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
- Zig Ziglar
Let your motto then always be ‘Excelsior’, for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.
- P.T. Barnum
There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
- Bill Gates
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.
- Harvey Mackay
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- Theodore Roosevelt
[On the first twitter tweet] The first tweet that was actually written by a human was by me and it was inviting co-workers.
- Jack Dorsey
God didn’t create you to be average. You were created to excel You have everything.
- Joel Olsteen
I want people to learn what democracy means.
- Jack Ma
For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.
- Bill Gates
Americans believe cotton is best, but we’ve invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
- Tadashi Yanai
Remember: There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.
- Timothy Ferriss
If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business—no matter how good the product.
- Peter Thiel
I’d never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn’t exist.
- Sara Blakely
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
- Timothy Ferriss
Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.
- Zig Ziglar
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today’s world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
- Jack Welch
If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says: I’m beaten. It is fate. I haven’t got a chance. Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of selfpity. But when the wise man is handed a lemon, he says: What lesson can I learn from this misfortune? How can I improve my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade?
- Dale Carnegie
A stubborn man can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
No effort has been spared in ensuring the best designs for all our projects.
- Lee Shau Kee
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge….
- Thomas Edison
Assetts put money in your pocket. Liabilities take money out of your pocket.
- Robert Kiyosaki
We all have done something unethical.
- John C. Maxwell
The definition of commerce is the activity between buyers and sellers.
- Jack Dorsey
If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.
- Bill Gates
As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.
- Harvey Mackay
When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.
- Larry Ellison
I believe it’s important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
- Zig Ziglar
You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.
- Harvey Mackay
My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don’t keep score.
- Harvey Mackay
Everybody has a product to sell.
- Peter Thiel
Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
- Bill Gates
I’m Phil Knight, and I don’t believe in advertising.
- Phil Knight
Learn to say No to the good so that you can say Yes to your best.
- John Maxwell
[On the cost to found Nike] Six hundred dollars each. Twelve hundred dollars total investment.
- Phil Knight
Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.
- James C. Collins
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
- Benjamin Franklin
I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.
- Bill Gates
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
- Henry Ford
Differentiation (rating and evaluating people) Develops Great Organizations. Differentiation is hard, anybody who finds it easy doesn’t belong in the organization, and anyone who can’t do it falls in the same category…It is important for companies to continually remove the bottom 10 percent of their employees anually.
- Jack Welch
While a definitely optimistic future would need engineers to design underwater cities and settlements in space, an indefinitely optimistic future calls for more bankers and lawyers.
- Peter Thiel
So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested.
- Dale Carnegie
The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can’t quite imagine if you’ve spent your whole career in a corporation.
- Harvey Mackay
You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.
- Jerry Seinfeld
An organization’s capabilities reside in two places. The first is in its processes—the methods by which people have learned to transform inputs of labor, energy, materials, information, cash, and technology into outputs of higher value. The second is in the organization’s values, which are the criteria that managers and employees in the organization use when making prioritization decisions. People are quite flexible, in that they can be trained to succeed at quite different things. An employee of IBM, for example, can quite readily change the way he or she works, in order to work successfully in a small start-up company. But processes and values are not flexible. A process that is effective at managing the design of a minicomputer, for example, would be ineffective at managing the design of a desktop personal computer. Similarly, values that cause employees to prioritize projects to develop high-margin products, cannot simultaneously accord priority to low-margin products. The very processes and values that constitute an organization’s capabilities in one context, define its disabilities in another context.
- Clayton M. Christensen
The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
- Bill Gates
I want the entire smartphone, the entire Internet, on my wrist.
- Steve Wozniak
On an opponent:”He loves the working man. He loves to see him work.
- Winston Churchill
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
- Dale Carnegie
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
The battle is all over except the ‘shouting’ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
- Napoleon Hill
In creating an ideavirus, the advertiser creates an environment in which the idea can replicate and spread. It’s the virus that does the work, not the marketer.
- Seth Godin
Some things are much easier to see in others than in yourself
- Ben Horowitz
In war and policy one should always try to put oneself in the position of what Bismarck called “the Other Man”. The more fully and sympathetically a Minister can do this the better are his chances of being right. The more knowledge he possesses of the opposite point of view, the less puzzling it is to know what to do. But imagination without deep and full knowledge is a snare.
- Winston Churchill
The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies… The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.
- Jeff Bezos
We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
I aim to be pretty – I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.
- Sara Blakely
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
- Jack Welch
Often, out of our greatest rejection comes our greatest direction.
- Joel Olsteen
I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‘You’re going to do it my way.’ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‘You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.’
- Joel Olsteen
I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.
- Ronald Perelman
Even if you don’t have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt.
- Victoria Ransom
Woody’s Allen’s great line about relationships. A relationship is like a shark, it either has to move forward or it dies. And that’s true about your company.
- Larry Ellison
Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good
- Ron Chernow
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
- Tadashi Yanai
But at the Lychgate we may all pass our own conduct and our own judgments under a searching review. It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events. In one phase men seem to have been right, in another they seem to have been wrong. Then again, a few years later, when the perspective of time has lengthened, all stands in a different setting. There is a new proportion. There is another scale of values. History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
- Winston Churchill
Give your good bacteria an upgrade and get your microbiome in shape. Faster fat-loss and better mental health are just two of the benefits.
- Timothy Ferriss
Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
- Napoleon Hill
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
- Seth Godin
The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.
- Harvey Mackay
These are all commodity-focused issues. The old conceit of a retailer was that if you offered the right products at a fair price in a convenient location, you’d do fine if you watched your expenses. Today, the issues are totally different.
- Seth Godin
Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
- Zig Ziglar
On average, our total annual realized income is less than 7 percent of our wealth. In other words, we live on less than 7 percent of our wealth.
- Thomas J Stanley
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business.
- Dale Carnegie
Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you’ll create credit… So you reach a certain point that that you can’t do that anymore… There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?
- Ray Dalio
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it’s useless, I think it’s a distraction.
- Seth Godin
Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.
- Joel Olsteen
The world is facing a new networked, digital lifestyle, and we will ensure that Canon remains ahead of the game.
- Fujio Mitarai
I will everyday as just a blow from my blade against a mighty oak…strike until it falls quote.
- Og Mandino
Many people who want to be great aren’t willing to do the work to make it possible!
- Zig Ziglar
It’s important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
- Sara Blakely
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
So the challenge, as you contemplate your next opportunity to be boring or remarkable, is to answer these two questions: (1) “If I get criticized for this, will I suffer any measurable impact? Will I lose my job, get hit upside the head with a softball bat, or lose important friendships?” If the only side effect of the criticism is that you will feel bad about the criticism, then you have to compare that bad feeling with the benefits you’ll get from actually doing something worth doing. Being remarkable is exciting, fun, profitable, and great for your career. Feeling bad wears off. And then, once you’ve compared the bad feeling and the benefits, and you’ve sold yourself on taking the remarkable path, answer this one: (2) How can I create something that critics will criticize?
- Seth Godin
Never forget that people are your greatest asset.
- John Maxwell
I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
- Brian Tracy
I don’t know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
- Reed Hastings
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
- Jeff Bezos
His friends, drunk to the point of speaking in tongues, were asleep.
- Timothy Ferriss
The Real ReasonNew College Grads Can’t Get Hired shocked many when it reported, The Workforce Solutions Group at St. Louis Community College finds that more than 60% of employers say applicants lack communication and interpersonal skills
- Martha C. White
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
- Dale Carnegie
You don’t need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.
- Harvey Mackay
The first complaint we hear from everyone is: ‘Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother’s eating for lunch?’ But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled – you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
- Jack Dorsey
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
- Oprah Winfrey
One out of every five page views in the United States is on Facebook!
- Gary Vaynerchuk
It’s no fun to protest on an empty stomach.
- Michael Bloomberg
We’ve only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
- Jack Welch
If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you’ll never end up with a nag.
- Zig Ziglar
