I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
- Og Mandino
Notable Quotables
Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.
- Jerry Seinfeld
We’ve grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.
- Steve Ballmer
If your product requires advertising or salespeople to sell it, it’s not good enough: technology is primarily about product development, not distribution. Bubble-era advertising was obviously wasteful, so the only sustainable growth is viral growth.
- Peter Thiel
I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.
- Joel Olsteen
Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.
- Ray Dalio
To properly value a business, you also have to discount those future cash flows to their present worth, since a given amount of money today is worth more than the same amount in the future.
- Peter Thiel
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.
- Henry Ford
Have you ever heard of Gmail? Ever used it? If so, it’s not because Gmail ran a lot of TV ads (they didn’t). It’s because the manifesto of free email got to you.
- Seth Godin
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
We’re all working together, that’s the secret.
- Sam Walton
For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
- Winston Churchill
Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work….
- Thomas Edison
Having a personality of caring about people is important. You cant be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.
- Richard Branson
A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still.
- Dale Carnegie
There’s always a wine bully. The one person who did read the ‘Wine Spectator,’ who tells you what to drink and why the ’97 is better than the ’98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn’t elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around – it just generates that much more ambition in many people.
- Azim Premji
A remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.
- Winston Churchill
We’re seeing an explosion in new approaches, new models and new forms of interaction. This growth comes from change, insight and exploration, not obedience.
- Seth Godin
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
- Stephen R. Covey
One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
- Richard Branson
There’s a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There’s a lot of sex, you know, in art. There’s a lot of naked women and men, and there’s intrigue, there’s fakery. It’s a real microcosm of the larger world.
- Steve Martin
Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.
- Richard Branson
The question I ask myself like almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’ … Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time.
- Mark Zuckerberg
It’s absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.
- Zig Ziglar
The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.
- John C. Maxwell
I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.
- Elon Musk
Have the humility to learn from those around you.
- John C. Maxwell
Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.
- Joel Olsteen
When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.
- Lei Jun
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
- Warren Buffett
Our culture is friendly and intense, but if push comes to shove we’ll settle for intense.
- Jeff Bezos
Don’t equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don’t let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you’d like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.
- Harvey Mackay
Names are the sweetest, most important sound in any language.
- Dale Carnegie
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
- Bill Gates
Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.”
- Bill Gates
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been
- Sam Walton
As an entrepreneur, remove obstacles for your team. If there is anything that is holding the team back, get it out of the way.
- David Nilssen
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership—not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.
- Ronald Reagan
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
No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
- Seth Godin
The better at communicating you are, and the more people you communicate to, the better your cash flow will be.
- Robert Kiyosaki
In line with the objective to diversify the business of your Group, Henderson Cyber was established to focus on businesses in the telecommunications and information technology fields.
- Lee Shau Kee
You’ve been destined to live in victory, destined to overcome, destined to leave your mark on this generation.
- Joel Olsteen
Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.
- Jerry Seinfeld
I don’t know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
- Reed Hastings
We will intensify our efforts to build out our infrastructure overseas and to develop products that are tailored to individual markets
- Sergey Brin
The first four months of 2001 were extremely challenging, … This may be the fastest deceleration any company of our size has ever experienced.
- John Chambers
Don’t be intimidated as you design your pitch. The fact is that nobody will come to you at first. You must be the aggressor, or you will not be heard.
- Michael Levine
When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
- Zig Ziglar
Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.
- Joel Olsteen
I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.
- Joel Olsteen
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
What we want to watch is whether this is a short-term bump or not.
- John Chambers
I believe in being an innovator.
- Walt Disney
Q1 was a solid quarter for Cisco, with balanced execution across most of our geographies, market segments and product categories, … We are especially pleased with the improving business momentum in the U.S. and Asia Pacific, the strength of our product families and the accelerated growth of the commercial marketplace, which has become our fastest growing customer segment.
- John Chambers
I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.
- Dale Carnegie
“It’s clear there’s a lot of room for improvement, there’s no inherent ceiling we’re hitting up on.
- Sergey Brin
If you are unduly nervous, turn it around make your vulnerability an asset.
- Michael Levine
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.
- Jerry Seinfeld
You only have to succeed the last time.
- Phil Knight
If you’re lying, you’re lying.
- John C. Maxwell
Doubts [can] be swept away only by deeds.
- Winston Churchill
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.
- Steve Martin
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
- Benjamin Franklin
Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
- Zig Ziglar
What is Oracle? It’s people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
- Larry Ellison
Cruel and Darwinian? Try Fair and Effective.
- Jack Welch
Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] … by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks … to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.
- Winston Churchill
Ultimately you want to have the entire world’s knowledge connected directly to your mind
- Sergey Brin
Use what you have to get what you want.
- Jack Nadel
If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.
- Ben Horowitz
If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.
- Jerry Seinfeld
I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, ‘We’re going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.’ Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.
- Larry Ellison
The job isn’t to catch up to the status quo, the job is to invent the status quo.
- Seth Godin
Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.
- Bill Gates
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand – without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it….
- Thomas Edison
My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.
- Jerry Seinfeld
We are pleased to look back at another extremely successful financial year 2014 during which we achieved our targets.
- Elmar Degenhart
We have a go-to-hell fund. In other words, we have accumulated enough wealth to live without working for ten or more years. Thus, those of us with a net worth of $1.6 million could live comfortably for more than twelve years. Actually, we could live longer than that, since we save at least 15 percent of our earned income.
- Thomas J Stanley
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
- Bill Gates
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. It’s an awesome responsibility.
- Zig Ziglar
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
- Peter Drucker
Lack of Persistence.
- Napoleon Hill
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
- Winston Churchill
When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.
- Steve Wozniak
Our economy now rewards artists far more than any other economy in history ever has.
- Seth Godin
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
- Jeff Bezos
When you are a leader, your job is to have all the questions. You have to be incredibly comfortable looking like the dumbest person in the room. Every conversation you have about a decision, a proposal, or a piece of market information has to be filled with you saying, “What if?” and “Why not?” and “How come?
- Jack Welch
It is not enough that we do our best, sometimes we must do what is required.
- Winston Churchill
Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.
- Reed Hastings
Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?
- Zig Ziglar
Unless they invest in the difficult task of creating new things, American companies will fail in the future no matter how big their profits remain today.
- Peter Thiel
The kids are a big part of my schedule.
- Bill Gates
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
Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
- Zig Ziglar
I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
- Tony Robbins
