Certainly, none of us enjoy going through struggles, but you have to understand that your struggle may be an opportunity for advancement and promotion. The very thing you are fighting against so tenaciously may be the springboard that catapults you to a new level of excellence. Your challenges may become your greatest assets.
- Joel Olsteen
Notable Quotables
It’s not how far you fall. But how high you bounce that counts.
- Zig Ziglar
I am what I am and, you know, I’m a very lucky guy.
- Michael Bloomberg
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.
- Oprah Winfrey
Passion is everything. In fact, you’ve got to be borderline fanatical about what you do.
- Chris Gardner
A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill
I think what’s happening for me, it’s fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It’s fun to see Instagram become a major player. It’s fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
- Mark Zuckerberg
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
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Value is what you get.
- Warren Buffett
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
- Zig Ziglar
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
- Warren Buffett
Africa is on the rise.
- Bill Gates
China will become the IT (information technology) center of the world. We believe in giving something back and truly becoming a Chinese company.
- John Chambers
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
- Bill Gates
He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
- Ray Dalio
Profit and cash flow are not the same thing.
- Robert Kiyosaki
When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.
- Jerry Seinfeld
I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.
- Joel Olsteen
I always follow 4E’s wrapped in a ‘P’.
- Jack Welch
The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They’ve become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.
- Azim Premji
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
- Andrew Carnegie
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill
I’ve talked to nearly 30,000 people on this show, and all 30,000 had one thing in common: They all wanted validation…I would tell you that every single person you will ever meet shares that common desire.
- Oprah Winfrey
I do not follow conventional wisdom.
- Phil Knight
If you want to increase your success rate, double your rate of failure.
- Thomas J Watson
I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.
- Howard Schultz
If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.
- John C. Maxwell
Brevity is the soul of wit.
- William Shakespeare
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
Speeches will not distribute the future.
- Jack Dorsey
It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, an Inner Temple lawyer, now become a seditious fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceregal Palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor.
- Winston Churchill
I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.
- Howard Schultz
I have mentioned before that financial intelligence is a synergy of accounting, investing, marketing and law. Combine those four technical skills and making money with money is easier.
- Robert Kiyosaki
I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.
- Jeff Bezos
If you have any more than three priorities, you have no priorities.
- Maggie Fox
What we want to watch is whether this is a short-term bump or not.
- John Chambers
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
I’ve viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.
- Will Smith
Don’t criticize them, they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
- Dale Carnegie
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
- Peter Drucker
Southwest consistently turns a profit because they have an employee ownership program that gives their employees a sense of ownership that is very real. When the company does well financially, the employees do well financially. When the company struggles, the employees struggle.
- Clay Clark
The maxim, “Nothing prevails but perfection,” may be spelled PARALYSIS.
- Winston Churchill
If you ask where Nike came from, I would say it came from a kid who had that world-class shock administered at age seventeen by Bill Bowerman.
- Phil Knight
The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.
- John C. Maxwell
Developing a customer who loves the business so much that they become an unpaid and passionate marketer for the company.
- Clay Clark
You can market your ass off, but if your product sucks, you’re dead.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
You can’t manage what you can’t measure.
- Peter Drucker
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.
- Jerry Seinfeld
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
- Peter Drucker
The essential first step is to think for yourself. Only by seeing our world anew, as fresh and strange as it was to the ancients who saw it first, can we both re-create it and preserve it for the future.
- Peter Thiel
God, You said You would restore health unto me and heal me of my wounds. You said I would live and not die. You said what is impossible with men is possible with God. When you pray.
- Joel Olsteen
Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once.
- Drew Houston
Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
We believe our growth rate indicates that Cisco continues to gain market share against our traditional competitors in most product sectors.
- John Chambers
Twitter in 2000 was something that was fun to play with but something I put on the shelf to play with for another day. And that day was 2006.
- Jack Dorsey
There is no accountability today… no willingness to focus on big ideas.
- Michael Bloomberg
The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
- P.T. Barnum
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill
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
Don’t waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.
- Joel Olsteen
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
- Bill Gates
Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
- Bill Gates
Successful people find value in unexpected places, and they do this by thinking about business from first principles instead of formulas.
- Peter Thiel
Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can’t see it.
- Seth Godin
Practice, practice, PRACTICE in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.
- Dale Carnegie
Age doesn’t matter, an open mind does.
- Timothy Ferriss
If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.
- Dave Ramsey
We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.
- Winston Churchill
It’s a lot cheaper to be a pirate than a pioneer.
- Tim Redmond
There is no more important economic policy issue today than helping our nation remain the global innovation leader. To do this, our leadership must focus on an aggressive agenda to support math and science education, patent litigation reform, healthcare information technology, and research and development. We thank President Bush for his leadership and urge all members of Congress to address these issues in a comprehensive fashion to get the job done.
- John Chambers
Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success.
- Dale Carnegie
The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.
- Bill Gates
Education comes from within, you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
- Napoleon Hill
The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
- Bill Gates
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.
- Mark Zuckerberg
We all know now that the 747 became the flagship jumbo jet of the airline industry, but the decision looks much different from the perspective of the late 1960s. Yet—and this is the key point—Boeing was willing to make the bold move in the face of the risks. As in Boeing’s case, the risks do not always come without pain.
- James C. Collins
Life’s a journey. It’s a journey about discovering limits.
- Larry Ellison
I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.
- Bill Gates
But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
-Gardens, not buildings–Great projects start out feeling like buildings. There are architects, materials, staff, rigid timelines, permits, engineers, a structure.It works or it doesn’t.Build something that doesn’t fall down. On time.But in fact, great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.Perfection and polish aren’t nearly as important as good light, good drainage and a passionate gardener.By all means, build. But don’t finish. Don’t walk away.Here we grow.
- Seth Godin
I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as ‘I’m cool, look at how many e-mails I get.’ That perception doesn’t scare me, because I know who I am.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
The focus on contribution by itself supplies the four basic requirements of effective human relations: communications, teamwork, self-development, and development of others.
- Peter Drucker
I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.
- Bill Gates
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
- John D. Rockefeller
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge….
- Thomas Edison
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Video is emerging as the key strategic application in the service provider triple play bundle of consumer entertainment, communication and online services.
- John Chambers
The Group recorded totals sales of around 3,300 property units from which approximately HK$6,810 million was generated from sales revenues attributable to the Group.
- Lee Shau Kee
Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.
- Howard Schultz
I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.
- Donald Trump
I’d work in the store all day, then take off around closing and drive that windy road over the Mississippi River, and then into Tennessee with an old homemade trailer I had hitched to my car. I’d stuff that car and trailer with whatever I could get good deals on – usually on soft lines, ladies panties and nylons, men’s shirts and I’d bring them back, price them low and just blow that stuff out of the store.
- Sam Walton
Never fear to negotiate, but never negotiate out of fear.
- Jack Nadel
Execution begins with a vision and your people saying, I understand it. I’m excited about it. I can help make it happen.
- David Novak
