IT’S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward.
- Jack Welch
Notable Quotables
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
- Winston Churchill
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
- Richard Branson
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
- Napoleon Hill
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
If you think your people are negative, then you had better check your attitude. Who you are is who you attract. This is the LAW of Magnetism.
- John Maxwell
Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. To know all is to forgive all.
- Dale Carnegie
We gave new customers $10 for joining, and we gave them $10 more every time they referred a friend.
- Peter Thiel
And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.
- Richard Branson
I believe that those who stay in faith are highly favored. You need to prepare for an exceeding, abundant, above-and-beyond life; a life where people go out of their way for no reason to be good to you; a life where you get promoted even though you weren’t the most qualified; a life where you find yourself in the right place at the right time.
- Joel Olsteen
Figure out what the impact areas are in your business.
- Chet Holmes
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Visionary companies pursue a cluster of objectives, of which making money is only one—and not necessarily the primary one.
- James C. Collins
People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
- Elon Musk
Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.
- Peter Thiel
Ironically, the biggest obstacle to putting a training program in place is the perception that it will take too much time. Keep in mind that there is no investment that you can make that will do more to improve productivity in your company. Therefore, being too busy to train is the moral equivalent of being too hungry to eat. Furthermore, it’s not that hard to create basic training courses.
- Ben Horowitz
This marks the eighth consecutive quarter of year-over-year top-line growth for Cisco.
- John Chambers
1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20).2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson’s Law).
- Timothy Ferriss
My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.
- Mukesh Ambani
Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.
- Harvey Mackay
I haven’t failed,I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- Zig Ziglar
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
- Reid Hoffman
Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
- Wang Jianlin
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
- Warren Buffett
We gradually came to the realization that we were hurting not just ourselves but the Chinese people.
- Sergey Brin
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Put time limits on each item. Set an agenda for your meeting and your trips to Disney World.
- David Robinson
Using a two-dollar commission, they really sold.
- Phil Knight
You have to get lost in the woods of your own doing and discover a way out. You have to find the right path over the creek, under the rock-whatever mechanism is good for your body’s size and your stride and your cadence and your tolerance for wet or cold or humid weather. That kind of learning comes from having a tolerance for failure, and extracting lessons from your failures.
- Marc Ecko
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others.
- Dale Carnegie
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
To change somebody’s behavior, change the level of respect she receives by giving her a fine reputation to live up to. Act as though the trait you are trying to influence is already one of the person’s outstanding characteristics.
- Dale Carnegie
The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you’ve ever been able to create before.
- Seth Godin
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
Health is worth more than learning.
- Thomas Jefferson
Now that we have run out of money we have to think.
- Winston Churchill
All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.
- Seth Godin
It is going to be a little, if you will, laboratory for sustainability in businesses of small scale
- Larry Ellison
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
- Howard Schultz
Crash diets don’t work.They don’t work for losing weight, they don’t work for making sales quota and they don’t work for getting and keeping a job.The reason they don’t work has nothing to do with what’s on the list of things to be done (or consumed). No, the reason they don’t work is that they don’t change habits, and habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.
- Seth Godin
We just tried to get our shoes on the feet of runners.
- Phil Knight
Doubts [can] be swept away only by deeds.
- Winston Churchill
Simon received the Nobel Prize in 1978 for his contribution to organizational decision making: It is impossible to have perfect and complete information at any given time to make a decision.
- Timothy Ferriss
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. Pick people who are interested in what you’re interested in.
- Russell Simmons
China’s open-door policy, the favourable local exchange rates, the growing affluence and changing lifestyles in South Asian countries and burgeoning economic activities in the Asia-Pacific Rim are all conducive factors to the continuing tourism boom.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely.
- Dale Carnegie
The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
- George Orwell
The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work if you won’t.
- Zig Ziglar
Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.
- Sergey Brin
A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.
- Seth Godin
Money is fun to make, fun to spend and fun to give away.
- Sara Blakely
I am more of a creative person. I recognize that about myself, which is why I hired my weaknesses early on. I think if most founders don’t relinquish some control, then we hold back the development of our companies.
- Sara Blakely
Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.
- Joel Olsteen
In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.
- Donald Bren
Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
- Bill Gates
God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days. Why should you and I?
- Dale Carnegie
Run your business in harmony with God’s laws.
- David Green
I’m getting better. I’m improving. My health is coming back,” those words began to create a new image on the inside. Before long, they started seeing themselves strong, healthy, and whole.
- Joel Olsteen
When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would’ve had a chance. Because that’s where my real heart was.
- Steve Martin
That’s not a Puma, that’s a Nike. [‘What’s a Nike?’] A new brand.
- Phil Knight
Most of us don’t invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
- Sam Walton
A man should never neglect his family business.
- Walt Disney
Consumers are not loyal to cheap commodities. They crave the unique, the remarkable, and the human.
- Seth Godin
I never worry because I know who I am and I know Whose I am.
- Zig Ziglar
Speak up for those who cannot speak up for themselves.
- Proverbs 31:8
Let your motto then always be ‘Excelsior’, for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.
- P.T. Barnum
You cannot play with fire.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.
- Steve Ballmer
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
It truly levels the playing field and puts all the emphasis on the content. And all the emphasis on the merit of the idea.
- Jack Dorsey
Getting over the war was biggest adversity I have ever faced.
- Jack Nadel
It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
- Zig Ziglar
The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.
- Robin Li
Branding is what people think about you before they even know you.
- Bryan Smith
[On Twitter] This company is bigger than any individual.
- Jack Dorsey
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
- Brian Tracy
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
- Bill Gates
Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what’s coming.
- Steve Martin
As CEO, you should have an opinion on absolutely everything. You should have an opinion on every forecast, every product plan, every presentation, and even every comment. Let people know what you think. If you like someone’s comment, give her the feedback. If you disagree, give her the feedback. Say what you think. Express yourself.
- Ben Horowitz
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.
- Bill Gates
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.
- Elon Musk
The one essential character trait of any leader is personal integrity.
- David Novak
Use money to make money.
- Lee Shau Kee
If you have enough push, you don’t have to worry about the pull.
- Zig Ziglar
You’ve got to embrace what you don’t know.
- Sara Blakely
I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus’ message was simple.
- Joel Olsteen
True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.
- Zig Ziglar
I’m just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.
- Howard Schultz
I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.
- Michael Bloomberg
When you deal with change, you have a couple choices: you can lead it and make the rules, or you can be a fast follower, or you can be a slow follower.
- Charles Ergen
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
- Gail Devers
What I know for sure is that if you want success, you can’t make success your goal. The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead work toward being significant, and the success will naturally follow.”
- Oprah Winfrey
What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone’s not put a lot of effort into their look.
- Sara Blakely
If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
- Seth Godin
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
- George Soros
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
- Andrew Carnegie
