Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
- Vagit Alekperov
Notable Quotables
Who’s your Jedi master? WHO’S your Jedi Master?
- Yoda
Surely, we all can look back and see things in our lives that we wish we would have done differently. But the Bible says, Make the most of each day.”4 Yesterday is gone; tomorrow may not come. You must live for today. Start right where you are. You can’t do anything about what’s gone, but you can do a great deal about what remains.
- Joel Olsteen
I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.
- Donald Trump
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill
Humans, particularly those who build things, only listen to leading indicators of good news.
- Ben Horowitz
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
- Steve Wozniak
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they’ve never failed to imitate them.
- Zig Ziglar
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is.
- Donald Trump
Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.
- Dale Carnegie
This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.
- Winston Churchill
You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
- Zig Ziglar
What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination.
- Zig Ziglar
I just wanted to be in show business. I didn’t care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.
- Steve Martin
Good talkers often choose to become sales professionals. Unfortunately, they don’t understand that selling well means listening well.
- Jerry Vass
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Don’t do the natural thing, the impulsive thing. That is usually wrong.
- Dale Carnegie
I was reading an article in the ‘New York Times;’ it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you’re so focused that time ceases to exist. It’s when you think, ‘Oh, I’ve been doing this for five hours and didn’t even know it.’ It’s the difference between hard work and going, ’12 o’clock, not moving.’
- Steve Martin
I attract a crowd, not because I’m an extrovert or I’m over the top or I’m oozing with charisma. It’s because I care.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Quejarse es estúpido. Actúa u olvídalo.
- Stefan Sagmeister
When you are unbalanced you can launch things
- Rachel Faucett
We were looking to guide and help people who want to start small businesses.
- David Nilssen
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
You have enough people against you… be for yourself.
- Joel Olsteen
Without passion, you don’t have energy; without energy, you have nothing. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
- Donald Trump
Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.
- Ray Kroc
Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.
- George Soros
Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Winston Churchill
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.
- Zig Ziglar
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill… it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
- Li Ka-shing
It’s not about toughness, it’s not about attitude. Companies don’t fail for lack of cash or attitude. Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.
- Mark Cuban
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
- Napoleon Hill
If David our CEO, devotes so much of his time to this, then all this stuff about teamwork and learning how to be a great leader must be pretty important.
- David Novak
Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage.
- Howard Schultz
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.
- Jerry Seinfeld
We modeled our employee stock ownership plan after Sam’s, and it worked well for us.
- Bernie Marcus
Nobody in the heavens above or on the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth will ever object to your saying: ‘I may be wrong. Let’s examine the facts.
- Dale Carnegie
I know a lot of people are upset by our decision but it is something we have deliberated for a number of years.
- Sergey Brin
It’s true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
- Lakshmi Mittal
If values do not affect daily life, they are not values.
- Marty St. George
Don’t fight change; embrace it, and you will step into the fullness of what God has in store.
- Joel Olsteen
Time – the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
The difference between being mediocre and magical is often the difference between letting people take creative risk and holding them too tightly accountable. Accountability is important, but it’s not the only thing that’s important.
- Ben Horowitz
Churchill: “Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?” Socialite: “My goodness, Mr. Churchill… Well, I suppose… we would have to discuss terms, of course… “Churchill: “Would you sleep with me for five pounds?”Socialite: “Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!” Churchill: “Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price
- Winston Churchill
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
- David Novak
The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.
- Harvey Mackay
I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky
- Oprah Winfrey
The Silver Spoon, the best-selling Italian cookbook of the last 50 years.
- Timothy Ferriss
Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.
- Bill Gates
Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.
- Donald Trump
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill
I don’t shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.
- Jack Ma
There is no short cut to achievement.
- George Washington Carver
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.
- Elon Musk
Early must I rise. Leave now you must!
- Yoda
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
- Harvey Mackay
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Seneca
Bill Gates wants people to think he’s Edison, when he’s really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn’t right… wealth isn’t the same thing as intelligence.
- Larry Ellison
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston Churchill
I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.
- Elon Musk
[Introducing himself to Sony co-founder Akio Morita] I have six of your TVs in my house.
- Phil Knight
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he was born with.
- Alexander Graham Bell
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
- Oprah Winfrey
Two things about Sam Walton distinguish him from almost everyone else I know. First he gets up everyday bound and determined to improve something. Second, he is less afraid of being wrong than anyone I’ve ever know. And once he sees he’s wrong, he just shakes it off and heads in another direction. (qualities of great leaders)
- David Glass
If a man’s heart is rankling with discord and ill feeling toward you, you can’t win him to your way of thinking with all the logic in Christendom. Scolding parents and domineering bosses and husbands and nagging wives ought to realize that people don’t want to change their minds. They can’t be forced or driven to agree with you or me. But they may possibly be led to, if we are gentle and friendly, ever so gentle and ever so friendly.
- Dale Carnegie
THE MOST CONTENTIOUS question in business is whether success comes from luck or skill.
- Peter Thiel
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
- Ray Kroc
I try to keep a positive intention and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
- Russell Simmons
I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.
- Donald Trump
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
- Oprah Winfrey
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.
- Thomas Edison
Make good decisions based on facts.
- David Novak
I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
- Jack Ma
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
- Thomas Edison
I have 2 million Twitter followers. Some of those people are also yogis and activists and people who really go out and make a difference. I do as much as I can with my voice. It’s effortless in some cases. I try to remind everybody that they have that kind of voice.
- Russell Simmons
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
Hope is the engine of your attitude, and your attitude determines your altitude.
- Zig Ziglar
I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.
- Joel Olsteen
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
All salesmen are actors: their priority is persuasion, not sincerity. That’s why the word “salesman” can be a slur and the used car dealer is our archetype of shadiness. But we only react negatively to awkward, obvious salesmen—that is, the bad ones.
- Peter Thiel
Even if you have a world class idea and want to give it away for the good of humanity, you will have to sell the concept. If you can’t sell it, you’ll be stuck with your idea, poorer for your brilliance and generosity.
- Jerry Vass
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
Don’t worry that you can’t seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You’ll get better and better.
- Steve Wozniak
If all we do with these tools is teach compliance and consumption, that’s all we’re going to get. School can and must do more than train the factory workers of tomorrow.
- Seth Godin
You can’t build any kind of organization if you’re not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
- Howard Schultz
I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.
- Alisher Usmanov
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
- Elon Musk
The indefiniteness of finance can be bizarre. Think about what happens when successful entrepreneurs sell their company. What do they do with the money? In a financialized world, it unfolds like this: • The founders don’t know what to do with it, so they give it to a large bank. • The bankers don’t know what to do with it.
- Peter Thiel
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
Best wine if you’re stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them…let them be your friends.
- Winston Churchill
The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
- Dale Carnegie
When I have spare time, I catch up on things I’ve had to postpone due to lack of time.
- Steve Wozniak
Waiting isn’t easy, which is precisely why it is so effective when engaging with other people.
- Seth Godin
It is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.
- Winston Churchill
Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.
- Nelson Mandela
One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions, your passions choose you.
- Jeff Bezos
