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
Notable Quotables
I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.
- Warren Buffett
Spend zero time on what you could have done, and devote all of your time on what you might do. Because in the end, nobody cares; just run your company.
- Ben Horowitz
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
[As a child] I would just question things…
- Elon Musk
Worrying is a waste of time. Worrying gets in the way of solving problems.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
- John C. Maxwell
Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
- Bill Gates
You’ve got to listen to what God’s telling you and not to what other people may tell you. People will try to talk you out of the dream in your heart.
- Joel Olsteen
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
- Napoleon Hill
All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.
- Donald Trump
There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won’t stand for that.
- Steve Martin
I’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
- Elon Musk
Your story is a symphony, not a note.
- Seth Godin
The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.
- Francois Pinault
Its easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.
- Ray Kroc
Of this I am quite sure. If we open up a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
It’s our obligation to use the law to the furthest possible means to protect our users’ privacy. It’s just a legal and ethical principle.
- Sergey Brin
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
- Russell Simmons
The missing ingredient for nearly all of the 1,000-plus clients I have worked with directly to improve their businesses is pigheaded discipline and determination. We all get good ideas at seminars and from books, radio talk shows and business-building gurus. The problem is that most companies do not know how to identify and adapt the best ideas to their businesses. Implementation, not ideas, is the key to real success.
- Chet Holmes
It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, This sickness can’t take my life.” This cancer can’t defeat me.” No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.
- Joel Olsteen
The Minden prospect originated this past summer through a large acreage acquisition from a major oil company and Cabot now controls 3,500 acres over the area. We are pleased with our initial results and will remain active in this area throughout 2006. On forty-acre spacing, the prospect has the potential for 80 plus locations.
- Dan Dinges
The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.
- Marc Benioff
Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don’t have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what’s happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We’re no longer a respected country.
- Donald Trump
Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.
- Bill Gates
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage.
- Howard Schultz
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they’ve never failed to imitate them.
- Zig Ziglar
It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.
- Zig Ziglar
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.
- Dale Carnegie
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
- Niels Bohr
Forty years ago, Richard Branson, who ultimately founded Virgin Air, found himself in a similar situation in an airport in the Caribbean. They had just canceled his flight, the only flight that day. Instead of freaking out about how essential the flight was, how badly his day was ruined, how his entire career was now in jeopardy, the young Branson walked across the airport to the charter desk and inquired about the cost of chartering a flight out of Puerto Rico. Then he borrowed a portable blackboard and wrote, “Seats to Virgin Islands, $39.” He went back to his gate, sold enough seats to his fellow passengers to completely cover his costs, and made it home on time.
- Seth Godin
I would love to do a deal with Walgreen. If they’re willing to come to the table, and offer rates in line with everybody else, then I’m happy to entertain those conversations.
- George Paz
The moment a leader allows himself to become the primary reality people worry about, rather than reality being the primary reality, you have a recipe for mediocrity, or worse. This is one of the key reasons why less charismatic leaders often produce better long-term results than their more charismatic counterparts.
- James C. Collins
In any human interaction, the required amount of communication is inversely proportional to the level of trust.
- Ben Horowitz
Cooperativeness in conversation is achieved when you show that you consider the other person’s ideas and feelings as important as your own.
- Dale Carnegie
You can’t build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
- Rupert Murdoch
When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
- Bill Gates
The Internet will help achieve friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
- Bill Gates
Superstition of Prejudice.
- Napoleon Hill
Culture manages when management is not there.
- Joe Jordan
Extraordinary results are directlydetermined by how narrow you can make your focus.
- Gary Keller
The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don’t things are just going to head in a direction that’s going to be almost impossible to recover from.
- Donald Trump
Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.
- Zig Ziglar
Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.
- Fujio Mitarai
I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change.
- Gina Rinehart
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been
- Sam Walton
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
- Andrew Carnegie
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.
- Mark Zuckerberg
The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
- Bill Gates
Write your life story as if it has already happened and live it out using your faith in yourself, and in the reality that you are embracing.
- Clay Clark
Discipline is hard–harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can’t even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.
- Atul Gawande
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.
Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
- Bill Gates
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
- Lee Iacocca
Weed out the bad fits right away
- Tony Hsieh
The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
- Bill Gates
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
- Henry Ford
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
Every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside.
- Peter Thiel
We’ve got to lift our game tremendously. We’ll sell our business news and information in print, we’ll sell it to anyone who’s got a cable system, and we’ll sell it on the Web.
- Rupert Murdoch
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
- Henry Ford
Of course I needed somebody to run my new store, and I didn’t have much money, so I did something that I would do for the rest of my run in the retail business without any shame or embarrassment whatsoever: nose around other people’s stores searching for good talent. That’s when I made my first real hire, the first manager, Willard Walker.
- Sam Walton
If you’re not one or two in the market, you don’t make money. The market leaders make the money.
- Jack Welch
Take the first step in faith, you don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
What you get by achieving your goals is not nearly as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Zig Ziglar
The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desperate and vain appeals against the decision of Fate.
- Winston Churchill
The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places,
- Peter Thiel
Look around. If you don’t see any salespeople, you’re the salesperson.
- Peter Thiel
If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
- Jeff Bezos
When Sam feels a certain way, he is relentless. He will just wear you out. He will bring up an idea, and we’ll discuss it and then decide maybe that it’s not something we should be doing right now or ever. Fine. Case closed. But as long as he is convinced that it is the right thing, it just keep coming up week after week – until finally everybody capitulates and says, well it’s easier to do it than to keep fighting this fight. I guess it could be called management by wearing you down.
- David Glass
I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.
- Joel Olsteen
It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.
- Bill Gates
Over the course of your career, your Detroit will surely call you at one point or another. If you can go, that’s great. If you can’t, make peace with the reasons why.
- Jack Welch
I think it is a sad day for the company and we are going to miss him. But, typically of him, he has planned his own succession immaculately. We will have a dinner and a nice party for him.
- Simon Wolfson
On top of this, if you do great work you gain the reward of knowing you’re doing great work. Your day snaps into alignment with your dreams, and you no longer have to pretend you’re mediocre. You’re free to contribute.
- Seth Godin
The skill sets it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, a successful marketer, or a relevant celebrity is a different skill set than you needed ten years ago, even though that was the skill set that mattered for decades.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- Dale Carnegie
If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.
- Richard Branson
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
- Peter Drucker
I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
- Wang Jianlin
Jesus was saying that you can’t have a larger life with restricted attitudes.
- Joel Olsteen
Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global – that has a global presence that’s involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
- Harold Hamm
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
There’s a sucker born every minute.
- P.T. Barnum
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
- Elon Musk
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
- Dale Carnegie
I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.
- Harvey Mackay
The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it’s being implemented is a disaster.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir ’em up, but you can’t do that on television. It’s just not on.
- Rupert Murdoch
You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance.
- Peter Thiel
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
- Howard Schultz
The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.
- Zig Ziglar
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.
- Winston Churchill
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
- Paula Poundstone
