Be frank. Reporters know when your story is all hype and no substance. Be honest with them.
- Michael Levine
Notable Quotables
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 Starbucks customer and the Teavana customer are two very different customers, two different need states that are highly complimentary.
- Howard Schultz
Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.
- Richard Branson
If we don’t end war, war will end us.
- Winston Churchill
Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! … How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care … We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end … Hitler’s fate was sealed. Mussolini’s fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.
- Winston Churchill
I have to be ever vigilant to remain open to other people’s points of view. Just because I’m enthusiastic doesn’t necessarily mean I’m right. I have to always keep the doors open for honest communication or I could enthusiastically lead everyone right over the cliff.
- David Novak
Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‘Boy, those were great old days.’ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.
- Joel Olsteen
Casualness causes casualties.
- Tim Redmond
If we’re going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.
- Elon Musk
What do you want? is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.
- Timothy Ferriss
Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it.
- John C. Maxwell
Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE’s not striving for the kind of innovation it’s capable of.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
As a freshman, I had to make one hell of an adjustment. I had to go from being a good high school competitor to a locker room with three Olympians in Dellinger, Bailey, and Grelle. Four, if you count Burley coming in my senior year. 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
To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.
- Joel Olsteen
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
- Steve Martin
A riot is the language of the unheard.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
while you can buy your way to growth, you absolutely cannot buy your way to greatness.
- James C. Collins
Take unorthodox ideas seriously today, and the mainstream sees that as a sign of progress. We can be glad that there are fewer crazy cults now, yet that gain has come at great cost: we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.
- Peter Thiel
My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
- Jeff Bezos
Finding security in mediocrity is an exhausting process. You can work only so many hours, fret only so much. Being a slightly better typist or a slightly faster coder is insufficient. You’re always looking over your shoulder, always trying to be a little less mediocre than the guy next to you. It wears you out.
- Seth Godin
Service for the Right Reasons: To Save the Whales, or Kill Them and Feed the Children? Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
The greatest decision of all time, as far as any American citizen is concerned was reached in Philadelphia, July 4th 1776, when 56 men signed their names to a document, which they well knew would bring freedom to all Americans, or leave every one of the fifty-six hanging from the gallows. On July 4th 1776 Thomas Jefferson stood before the Assembly and fearlessly read the most momentus Decision ever placed upon paper.
- Napoleon Hill
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
- Warren G. Bennis
Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade – and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.
- George Soros
Tip 29 – A good Accountant is not just a scorekeeper.
- Jack Nadel
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
- Robert Frost
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Assetts put money in your pocket. Liabilities take money out of your pocket.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Build a culture that rewards—not punishes—people for getting problems into the open where they can be solved.
- Ben Horowitz
You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there’s a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.
- Howard Schultz
There’s been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that’s already legal, you’ll never get it.
- Travis Kalanick
When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
- Bill Gates
Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
- Thomas Edison
Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.
- Harvey Mackay
When you start a company, you’re basically jumping off a cliff. You don’t have any sense of where you’re going to land, what to do when you land, or what you should be doing inmidair. It’s very very scary. But it’s much easier when you have somebody to commiserate with you who knows what you’re going through, and who you know will always be on your side.
- Seth Goldman
In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.
- Bill Gates
A little boy went out to the backyard to play with a baseball bat and a ball. He said to himself, I am the best hitter in the world.” Then he threw the ball up in the air and took a swing at it, but he missed. Without a moment’s hesitation, he picked up the ball and tossed it in the air again, saying as he swung the bat, I’m the best hitter in all the world.” He swung and missed. Strike two. He tossed the ball up again, concentrating more intensely, even more determined, saying, I am the best hitter in all the world!” He swung the bat with all his might. Whiff! Strike three. The little boy laid down his bat and smiled real big. What do you know?” he said. I’m the best pitcher in all the world!
- Joel Olsteen
Salga de la rutina, extienda su visión y comience a dar gracias a Dios por las bendiciones explosivas que llegarán a su camino.
- Joel Olsteen
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
- Napoleon Hill
If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.
- Zig Ziglar
What we maybe should’ve realized sooner was that we are running a political campaign and the candidate is Uber. And this political race is happening in every major city in the world. And because this isn’t about a democracy, this is about a product, you can’t win 51 to 49. You have to win 98 to 2.
- Travis Kalanick
Why don’t we have enough teachers of math and science in the public schools? One answer is well, if they knew the subject well, they’d also know enough to work for Google or Goldman Sachs or God knows where.
- James Simons
It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.
- Winston Churchill
Don’t just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win, you were born for greatness, you were created to be a champion in life.
- Joel Olsteen
Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it’s a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.
- Harvey Mackay
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
- Jack Welch
I do limit my exposure to the public. You only have so much time.
- Donald Bren
The industry growth is there, and it’s there probably for the next decade. So how well we execute will determine what role we play.
- John Chambers
America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.
- Michael Bloomberg
In the years to come, that lure of partnership helped us attract a lot of good managers, but I don’t believe that we ever had one who bought more stock than Willard. And of course he feels pretty good about it today. – Sam Walton (on human resources, hiring, early history of Wal-Mart)
- Sam Walton
Most of a tech company’s value will come at least 10 to 15 years in the future.
- Peter Thiel
Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
- Zig Ziglar
Today, and I’m very strongly against tax increases.
- Donald Trump
It’s not sufficient that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
- Larry Ellison
Never consider the possibility of failure. As long as you persist, you will be successful.
- Brian Tracy
A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.
- Bill Gates
I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.
- Mark Zuckerberg
You measure your people and you take action on those that don’t measure up.
- Jack Welch
Unfavorable hereditary back ground.
- Napoleon Hill
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent….
- Thomas Edison
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates
Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don’t give ’em a green card.
- Michael Bloomberg
The first ten minutes of sorting through clothing was like choosing which child of mine should live or die.
- Timothy Ferriss
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
- Peter Drucker
P – Passion, you care about the team, passion and players
- Jack Welch
If you’re brilliant and undiscovered and underappreciated (in whatever field you choose), then you’re being too generous about your definition of brilliant.
- Seth Godin
I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.
- Mukesh Ambani
It also makes clear that it is her meeting and will take as much or as little time as she needs. During the meeting, since it’s the employee’s meeting, the manager should do 10 percent of the talking and 90 percent of the listening. Note that this is the opposite of most one-on-ones.
- Ben Horowitz
Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that’s what I think keeps me hungry.
- Warren Buffett
When you acknowledge God, He will go before you and make the crooked places straight.
- Joel Olsteen
All bibles are man-made.
- Thomas Edison
If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.
- Harvey Mackay
Don’t be so nervous. It’s not a big deal.
- Lee Shau Kee
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
- Seth Godin
I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997. That was my first professional online play
- Gary Vaynerchuk
It’s true that every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer.
- Peter Thiel
I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
- Russell Simmons
The first sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures us, you must not look too good nor talk too wise.
- Dale Carnegie
If you want to understand what drives Cisco, look at our approach to customers. The manner in which we serve our customers defines our company values and demonstrates our priorities. Cisco is proud to be honored with this important certification that recognizes the foundation of our culture — the importance that we place on ensuring our customers are successful with Cisco technology.
- John Chambers
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
- Henry Ford
I think very early on in life we all learn what we’re good at and what we’re not good at, and we stay where it’s safe.
- Sara Blakely
I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
- Jack Ma
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
- Winston Churchill
I feel like money makes you more of who you already are.
- Sara Blakely
It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
If you’re lying, you’re lying.
- John C. Maxwell
Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.
- Dale Carnegie
We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.
- Joel Olsteen
God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He’d have no one to use.
- Joel Olsteen
If I’m in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what’s possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that’s a valuable thing.
- Ben Horowitz
Sometimes, “never let them see you sweat,” is truly bad advice. The work of an individual who cares often exposes the grit and determination and effort that it takes to be present.Perfecting your talk, refining your essay and polishing your service until all elements of you disappear might be obvious tactics, but they remove the thing we were looking for: you.
- Seth Godin
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
- Og Mandino
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
- Thomas Edison
We have a mantra: don’t be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
- Larry Page
It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
- Winston Churchill
Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.
- Timothy Ferriss
In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
- Harry Truman
