Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
- Thomas Edison
Notable Quotables
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
- Bill Gates
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
- Timothy Ferriss
People are poor judges of importance and inflate minutiae to fill time and feel important.
- Timothy Ferriss
Leadership is the ability to get someone to follow you even if only out of curiosity.
- Ben Horowitz
You have to act and act now.
- Larry Ellison
Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.
- Zig Ziglar
Whatever your income, always live below your means.
- Thomas J Stanley
I read the paper every day and the Bible every day, that way I know what both sides are up to.
- Zig Ziglar
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
- Thomas Edison
Management will endeavour to actively encourage staff to broaden their experiences and job knowledge for extensive application in the process of improving the Group’s operational and competitive performance. Combined with our strengths in both entrepreneurial spirit and managerial professionalism, this would result in the creation of a leading edge honed in a relentless drive for operational excellence in the Group’s future pursuits.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
- Henry Ford
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
- Bill Cosby
Weed out the bad fits right away
- Tony Hsieh
Most of our lives in public are spent papering over, rationalizing, and otherwise denying our fear. We go to war because we’re afraid, and we often go to spiritual events for the very same reason.
- Seth Godin
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
- Henry Ford
I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.
- Howard Schultz
I’d learned the hard way that when hiring executives, one should follow Colin Powell’s instructions and hire for strength rather than lack of weakness.
- Ben Horowitz
The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don’t like to use the word efficiency. It’s creativity. It’s a belief that every person counts.
- Jack Welch
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
- Winston Churchill
How do you tap in to what God has already done? Very simple: just act like you’re blessed, talk like you’re blessed, walk like you’re blessed, think like you’re blessed, smile like you’re blessed, dress like you’re blessed. Put actions behind your faith, and one day you will see it become a reality.
- Joel Olsteen
Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.
- Joel Olsteen
Jobs’s return to Apple 12 years later shows how the most important task in business—the creation of new value—cannot be reduced to a formula and applied by professionals.
- Peter Thiel
The most valuable companies in the future won’t ask what problems can be solved with computers alone. Instead, they’ll ask: how can computers help humans solve hard problems?
- Peter Thiel
The wealthy class often looks down on the poor as those people. And deprived people view the rich as cold and heartless. The way to break down the barrier between the rich and poor is to asociate with each other and to help one another. Make a connection. If you can break down the barrier, it may pave the way to recovery for some person, a family, maybe an entire community.
- George Foreman
We must remember that our children are very much what we make them.
- Dale Carnegie
If you don’t believe in your product, or if you’re not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the where withal to do what it takes to make your product work.
- Jay Conrad Levinson
I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And they were incredibly moving.
- Steve Martin
We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
- Winston Churchill
A road that leads to nowhere is hard to build.
- David Novak
You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
- Elon Musk
People easily confuse skill with personality.
- Jerry Vass
After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa’s greatest industrialist.
- Aliko Dangote
A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate’s knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth.
- Ben Horowitz
In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.
- Reed Hastings
Here’s how I work: It’s 2013, and most marketers are operating like it’s 2009. I’m always trying to market like it’s 2015, but not like it’s 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren’t practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
- Jerry Seinfeld
You will give birth to more in the future than you’ve lost in the past.
- Joel Olsteen
We all know now that the 747 became the flagship jumbo jet of the airline industry, but the decision looks much different from the perspective of the late 1960s. Yet—and this is the key point—Boeing was willing to make the bold move in the face of the risks. As in Boeing’s case, the risks do not always come without pain.
- James C. Collins
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
- John D. Rockefeller
Boosted by ongoing increases in both its external trade and domestic consumption, mainland China is expected to maintain robust economic growth.
- Lee Shau Kee
American Dream – and it says that you should graduate from high school, graduate from college, get married, find a job with good benefits, have sex with your spouse two times per week, buy a home with a mortgage, get a pet, go on vacation two times per year, have two kids, invest in mutual funds and IRAs, recycle when possible, and aim to retire early in your mid-fifties to early sixties, if you are lucky. I don’t know about you, but for me it’s kind of hard to be passionate about that American Dream.
- Clay Clark
Never consider the possibility of failure. As long as you persist, you will be successful.
- Brian Tracy
Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you’ll create credit… So you reach a certain point that that you can’t do that anymore… There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?
- Ray Dalio
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
- Warren Buffett
The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.
- Jeff Bezos
As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.
- Travis Kalanick
Education and the Internet must go hand in hand, … It will serve as one of the great equalizers.
- John Chambers
Unhappy Barnes & Noble filed a lawsuit three days before Amazon’s IPO, claiming that Amazon was unfairly calling itself a “bookstore” when really it was a “book broker”.
- Peter Thiel
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle and a victory.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Today, all arrows point toward the biotech, nanotech, and information technology industries, and the convergence among them.
- Jack Welch
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
To be sure, real differences of opinion existed between the groups. Compared to pro-life participants, pro-choice participants had more favorable personal attitudes toward the pro-choice issues and less favorable attitudes toward the pro-life issues, and vice versa.
- John Chambers
All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.
- Donald Trump
John, never lend money to your friends; it will spoil your friendships.
- John D. Rockefeller
There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.
- Bill Gates
[In February 2011 on Square.] Starting a startup after twitter is so much easier than before.
- Jack Dorsey
I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.
- Joel Olsteen
The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we’re not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.
- Elon Musk
People who sell companies are “investment bankers.” And people who sell themselves are called “politicians.” There’s a reason for these redescriptions: none of us wants to be reminded when we’re being sold.
- Peter Thiel
I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.
- Alisher Usmanov
I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump… I like that guy. I’ve been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.
- Jack Ma
No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
- Harvey Mackay
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
- Thomas Edison
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
- Winston Churchill
Only the paranoid survive.
- Andrew Grove
China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
- Howard Schultz
By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.
- Dale Carnegie
Make good decisions based on facts.
- David Novak
I think everyone’s against abortion.
- Rupert Murdoch
We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.
- Richard Branson
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
- Henry Ford
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
Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
- Timothy Ferriss
It’s hard to say with 100 percent certainty that we’re totally out of it (the dry pattern), and it’s going to shift. But it’s leaning in that direction.
- Ed Clark
It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
- Jeff Bezos
Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.
- Seth Godin
Don’t take anyone for granted.
- Jack Dorsey
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
- Thomas Edison
Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems before returning home.
- Aliko Dangote
This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
- Seth Godin
I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy.
- Michael Gerber
Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.
- Sara Blakely
Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice Doggie until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
It is possible to know all there is to know about a subject—medicine, for example—but if you don’t have M.D. at the end of your name, few will listen. The M.D. is what I term a credibility indicator.” The so-called expert with the most credibility indicators, whether acronyms or affiliations, is often the most successful in the marketplace, even if other candidates have more in-depth knowledge. This is a matter of superior positioning, not deception.
- Timothy Ferriss
Lost time is never found again.
- Benjamin Franklin
Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
- Bill Gates
On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.
- Reed Hastings
This is indicative of how quickly CEO caution can put the foot on the brake.
- John Chambers
Stop doing things that waste time. Don’t replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that’s something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Its easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.
- Ray Kroc
Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes – and most fools do – but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one’s mistakes.
- Dale Carnegie
The things you’re not doing are the things you should actually be focused on.
- Ben Horowitz
The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
- Bill Gates
Always go to the expert.
- Jack Nadel
I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask, ‘Why am I doing this?’ You don’t ever want anybody asking that question. You want them to say, ‘I know why I’m doing it, I need the money, let’s go’ or whatever it is that draws them.
- Ben Horowitz
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.
- Bill Gates
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
- Sun Tzu
PR is gift-wrapping. If you package a bracelet in a Tiffany box, it will have a higher perceived value than if you presented it in a Kmart box.
- Michael Levine
