Show a real interest in his problem and helping him solve it.
- Jack Nadel
Notable Quotables
Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
- Andrew Carnegie
The bluegrass community… can be very strict. I didn’t know if I’d be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly… I felt really welcome.
- Steve Martin
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
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
We must remember that our children are very much what we make them.
- Dale Carnegie
Every choice you make has an end result.
- Zig Ziglar
I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.
- Bill Gates
This the real world, homie, school finished They done stole your dreams, you dunno who did it.
- Kanye West
It’s not about how to get started, it’s about how to get noticed.
- Steve Case
The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
- Seth Godin
In the end, Mockler and the board were proved right, stunningly so. If a shareflipper had accepted the 44 percent price premium offered by Ronald Perelman on October 31, 1986, and then invested the full amount in the general market for ten years, through the end of 1996, he would have come out three times worse off than a shareholder who had stayed with Mockler and Gillette.20 Indeed, the company, its customers, and the shareholders would have been ill served had Mockler capitulated to the raiders, pocketed his millions, and retired to a life of leisure.
- James C. Collins
[On American running shoes] They cost five bucks and gave you blood blisters after five miles. Adidas was taking advantage. And at $30 a pair, Adidas was making a killing.
- Phil Knight
Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.
- Elon Musk
All marketers are storytellers. Only the losers are liars.
- Seth Godin
Entrepreneurs must protect themselves and the venture at all times by documenting your agreements.
- Jack Nadel
My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.
- Sara Blakely
It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings.
- Sam Walton
Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
- Michael Bloomberg
Too often, that solution is nothing more than adding another layer. What you should be doing is going to the source of the problem to fix it, and sometimes that requires shooting the culprit,
- Sam Walton
Change means opportunity for those with the experience and confidence to look to the future.
- Cheng Yu-tung
A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.
- Joel Olsteen
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
The team with the best players wins.
- Jack Welch
It’s Never Over ’till it’s over! Never Give Up! Never.
- Winston Churchill
Hay dos errores que podemos cometer en el camino hacia la verdad. No recorrer todo el camino, y no empezar.
- Siddhartha Gautama
Stop whining, start hustling.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
[On someone with a new idea.] The first thing is to draw it out, program it, play with it and get other people playing with it so you can get feedback right away… Once you get that feedback you know if it’s something you should pursue and give more of your attention to, or if it’s something you should put on the shelf for another da
- Jack Dorsey
Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart.
- 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
You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
- Dale Carnegie
We can’t have democracy if we’re having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we’ve never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
- Larry Page
When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, ‘Convert this to Android format.’
- Larry Ellison
The reason Steve Herrell’s shop did so well is that it was famous for having a line! People brought folks from out of town to have the experience.
- Seth Godin
I don’t shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.
- Jack Ma
An individual artist needs only a thousand true fans in her tribe. It’s enough.
- Seth Godin
MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, play games, share pictures. Facebook is much better for sharing than MySpace. LinkedIn is the office, how you stay up to date, solve professional problems.
- Reid Hoffman
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
- Thomas Edison
I don’t know what would have happened if we hadn’t won that AOL deal
- Sergey Brin
In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.
- Reed Hastings
If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.
- Joel Olsteen
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.
- Tony Robbins
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. The management team.
- James C. Collins
When you are committed to doing what’s right, you are sowing seeds for God’s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.
- Joel Olsteen
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
- Winston Churchill
I will study and prepare myself, and someday the opportunity will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
- Bill Gates
Much to learn you still have…my old padawan… This is just the beginning!
- Yoda
Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed, A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden of weeds.
- John D. Rockefeller
Good policies without the right people will achieve nothing.
- Aliko Dangote
Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.
- Bill Gates
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
- Thomas Edison
Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‘Hey, I did my religious duty.’ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.
- Joel Olsteen
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
- Oprah Winfrey
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
- Winston Churchill
Patience is a key element of success.
- Bill Gates
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards–and living up to them–is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.
- Seth Godin
I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.
- Elon Musk
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
- Steve Martin
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.
- Joel Olsteen
Cisco believes that the Internet, and related technologies, will be a key enabler for India to achieve its goal of becoming a developed nation.
- John Chambers
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
- Napoleon Hill
I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus’ message was simple.
- Joel Olsteen
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
It truly levels the playing field and puts all the emphasis on the content. And all the emphasis on the merit of the idea.
- Jack Dorsey
One who buys things to write them off for their business whether they need them or not and who borrows massive sums of money to buy frozen yogurt and cupcake franchises that cannot possibly generate enough money to produce a livable wage, much less anything approaching prosperity.
- Clay Clark
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot
I think Tim being in the Guard is great. I hope all of my kids join the military. It teaches them discipline and respect.
- Michael Ward
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
- Harvey Mackay
On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We’ve got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers – and there could be a lot of them – will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.
- Howard Schultz
You need to ask yourself, “If our company isn’t good enough to win, then do we need to exist at all?
- Ben Horowitz
I never wanted to be an entrepreneur. I actually wanted to be Bruce Lee.
- Jack Dorsey
Urm. Put a shield on my saber I must.
- Yoda
Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.
- Joel Olsteen
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the most significant factor that relates to the root of negative thinking.
- Zig Ziglar
Bill Milliken is a big hero of mine.
- Anne Cox Chambers
My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.
- Bill Gates
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you maycome to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
- Winston Churchill
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
- Anthony Robbins
The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the future is.
- Yoda
Without failure there is no achievement.
- John C. Maxwell
es it’s thinner, but I wanted storage. I don’t have broadband at home, and you can’t get great broadband connection in hotels, so I carry all my personal media in the iPad. So I was hoping Apple has a 256GB iPad. I was hoping for more storage so I could put every episode of Big Bang Theory on my iPad. So I emailed my wife and said ‘nope, I don’t want one of those.
- Steve Wozniak
Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
- Bill Gates
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
You should know now that a man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, not by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it.
- Carlos Castaneda
I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
- Russell Simmons
I’m an entrepreneur. I’m not a politician.
- Robin Li
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
- Napoleon Hill
Last I looked – and I’m not a candidate – but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It’s most states are winners take all.
- Michael Bloomberg
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice – fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.
- Sergey Brin
I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.
- Steve Wozniak
Care more than others think wise.
- Howard Schultz
Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.
- Timothy Ferriss
My home is in Moscow and I have no plans to change this.
- Alisher Usmanov
