One out of every five page views in the United States is on Facebook!
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Notable Quotables
Beverages have to be created. And they’re created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry – what color’s hot right now.
- Howard Schultz
In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.
- Aliko Dangote
Marketing knits the whole organization together.
- Phil Knight
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened
- Winston Churchill
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
It’s Almost Impossible to Overinvest in Becoming the Market Leader.
- Seth Godin
Education and the Internet must go hand in hand, … It will serve as one of the great equalizers.
- John Chambers
So, if you look at what’s common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
A good culture is like the old RIP routing protocol: Bad news travels fast. Good news travels slow.
- Ben Horowitz
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
- Bill Gates
Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.
- Michael Bloomberg
In a poor organization, on the other hand, people spend much of their time fighting organizational boundaries, infighting, and broken processes. They are not even clear on what their jobs are, so there is no way to know if they are getting the job done or not. In the miracle case that they work ridiculous hours and get the job done, they have no idea what it means for the company or their careers. To make it all much worse and rub salt in the wound, when they finally work up the courage to tell management how fucked-up their situation is, management denies there is a problem, then defends the status quo, then ignores the problem.
- Ben Horowitz
It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it.
- Herb Kelleher
You can’t worry about the mistakes, because you’re going to make a lot of them. You’ve got to be thinking about your next move.
- Ben Horowitz
It marks a big step in a man’s development when he comes to realize that other men can be called in to help him do a better job than he can do alone.
- Andrew Carnegie
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
- Ray Kroc
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
- John D. Rockefeller
Luck plays a role in business but whether you succeed or fail depends on many other factors. I haven’t really had a failure.
- Lui Che Woo
Money doesn’t change you, it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
- Timothy Ferriss
See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.
- Joel Olsteen
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
- Bill Gates
The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.
- Bill Gates
The dangers of unchecked bureauracy are a constant thorn in the CEO’s side.
- Jack Welch
A company will be most successful if the senior managers optimize for the company’s success (think of this as a global optimization) as opposed to their own personal success (local optimization).
- Ben Horowitz
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
- Ray Kroc
I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.
- Ronald Perelman
I’m telling you, you can’t compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.
- John C. Maxwell
Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
- Joel Olsteen
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
- Peter Drucker
[On a company founder.] A founder is not a job, it’s a role, it’s an attitude. And it’s something that can happen again, and again, and again. In fact it has to happen, again and again and again. Otherwise we would not move forward.
- Jack Dorsey
If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.
- Bill Gates
The patterns of success and failure we see among firms faced with sustaining and disruptive technology change are a natural or systematic result of good managerial decisions. That is, in fact, why disruptive technologies confront innovators with such a dilemma. Working harder, being smarter, investing more aggressively, and listening more astutely to customers are all solutions to the problems posed by new sustaining technologies. But these paradigms of sound management are useless—even counterproductive, in many instances—when dealing with disruptive technology.
- Clayton M. Christensen
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
- Winston Churchill
Change is powerful, but change always comes with the possibility of failure as its partner. “This might not work” isn’t merely something to be tolerated; it’s something you must seek out.
- Seth Godin
You need to be better not bitter.
- Nate Waters
We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time
- Sara Blakely
All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.
- Peter Thiel
For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
- Zig Ziglar
the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.
- Dale Carnegie
Don’t save it all for the end. There is every reason not to.
- Timothy Ferriss
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
- Bill Gates
When you reach out to hurting people, that’s when God is going to make sure your needs are supplied. When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.”
- Joel Olsteen
The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business.
- Howard Schultz
I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.
- Phil Knight
A company needs lots of smart, super-engaged employees who can identify its particular weaknesses and help it improve them.
- Ben Horowitz
In my weekly staff meeting, I inserted an agenda item titled “What Are We Not Doing?
- Ben Horowitz
The accumulation of great fortunes calls for POWER and power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge, but that knowledge does not necessarily have to be in the possession of the man who accumulates the fortune.
- Napoleon Hill
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
- Napoleon Hill
We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.
- Phil Knight
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
- Theodore Roosevelt
What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?
- Sam Walton
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
- Bill Gates
Do not look like you are playing the fiddle while Rome is burning….stay focussed – Paraphrased from
- David Novak
Personal initiative is the power that inspires the completion of that which one begins. It is the power that starts all action. No person is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own.
- Napoleon Hill
when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.
- Dale Carnegie
Strategy is empty without change, empty without passion, and empty without people willing to confront the void.
- Seth Godin
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
- Donald Trump
I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
- Steve Jobs
Simplicity scales. Complexity does not.
- David Nilssen
I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
I didn’t like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn’t find anything to work underneath them.
- Sara Blakely
Team Together / Team Apart means you respect the final decision even if you would do something diffently, and make it happen with positive energy.
- David Novak
As knowledge is acquired it must be organized and put into use, for a definate purpose, through practical plans. Knowledge has no value except that which be gained from its application toward some worthy end.
- Napoleon Hill
If I am gone tommorrow am I happy with my life?
- Stacy Thorn
Developing a customer who loves the business so much that they become an unpaid and passionate marketer for the company.
- Clay Clark
We won’t change at all, … We feel consolidation will continue. We’re seeing more and more movement to fewer networking vendors.
- John Chambers
We’re absolutely going to have a better facility.
- Ed Clark
That’s an issue dear to my heart, because I was born in the Soviet Union during the communist era.
- Sergey Brin
I’m not losing any sleep over Dunkin Donuts.
- Howard Schultz
In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.
- Reed Hastings
Successful people think on paper.
- Brian Tracy
The first rule of organizational design is that all organizational designs are bad.
- Ben Horowitz
The boy you trained, gone he is. Consumed by Darth Vader.
- Yoda
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
- Warren Buffett
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
- Walt Disney
Strive to make every person feel special. After all, every person you meet is made in the image of God.
- Joel Olsteen
Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.
- Reid Hoffman
People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.
- Mark Zuckerberg
To add value to others, one must first value others.
- John C. Maxwell
Companies such as Echelon are poised to help drive this change with Cisco and extend the power of the Internet from business to the home.
- John Chambers
Perks are good, but they are not culture.
- Ben Horowitz
If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
- Bernard Shaw
Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice Doggie until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
- Og Mandino
I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
- Warren Buffett
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.
- Zig Ziglar
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
- Napoleon Hill
I don’t know what would have happened if we hadn’t won that AOL deal
- Sergey Brin
Options – the ability to choose – is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money – a lot more money – by doing half of what you are doing now.
- Timothy Ferriss
No matter what’s happening, choose to be happy. Don’t focus on what’s wrong. Find something positive in your life. Thank God for the small things.
- Joel Olsteen
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
- Steve Martin
I’ve found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that’s where many people cultivate inspiration.
- Herb Kelleher
We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.
- Winston Churchill
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can’t learn anything from being perfect.
- Adam Osborne
