The choice is between two ways of life: between individual liberty and State domination, between concentration of ownership in the hands of the State and the extension of ownership over the widest number of individuals, between the dead hand of monopoly and the stimulus of competition, between a policy of increasing restraint and a policy of liberating energy and ingenuity, between a policy of levelling down and a policy of opportunity for all to rise upwards from a basic standard.
- Winston Churchill
Notable Quotables
[On Twitter] This company is bigger than any individual.
- Jack Dorsey
Winning is better than losing, but everybody loses when the war isn’t one worth fighting.
- Peter Thiel
Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I’d put myself in the latter category. But I’d never call myself a normal designer of anything.
- Steve Wozniak
We got to know a lot of investors and know what they like and don’t like. Through many co-investments opportunities, we have built trust among these investors. So when it came to investing in Xiaomi, things were a lot easier.
- Lei Jun
Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.
- Joel Olsteen
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- Andrew Carnegie
I was hooked and I would make reward and recognition one of my primary focuses as a leader
- David Novak
The warrior mentality, the very fight to survive, is truly what created our culture.
- Herb Kelleher
The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.
- John C. Maxwell
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
- Bruce Lee
I’ve always believed that businesses should be good citizens…
- Phil Knight
[On working at Nike for 48 years] In those 48 years, I have never had a promotion. but it had its other benefits.
- Phil Knight
Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
- Larry Ellison
You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you’re asking for money!
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Every choice you make has an end result.
- Zig Ziglar
The garden gleams with summer jewelry. We live vy simply—but with all the essentials of life well understood & well provided for—hot baths, cold champagne, new peas, & old brandy.
- Winston Churchill
Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.
- Bill Gates
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
- Michael Bloomberg
Look around. If you don’t see any salespeople, you’re the salesperson.
- Peter Thiel
The way to stay ahead was through product innovation. We happened to be great at it.
- Phil Knight
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
- Peter Drucker
Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
- Donald Trump
Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.
- Seth Godin
Uber is “way more” evil than Google, the most ethically challenged company in Silicon Valley.
- Peter Thiel
I really believed that fear is contagious.
- Joel Olsteen
If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.
- Joel Olsteen
I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.
- Bill Gates
[On Square in July 2011] We’re going to make it amazing.
- Jack Dorsey
Your thoughts about your circumstances have you down. On the other hand, you can be in one of the biggest battles of your life, and still be filled with joy and peace and victory – if you simply learn how to choose the right thought. It’s time to think about what you’re thinking about.
- Joel Olsteen
The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.
- Winston Churchill
And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret. Concentrate your energy, thoughts and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged in. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line; to lead in it. Adopt every improvement, have the best machinery and know the most about it.
- Andrew Carnegie
I don’t think we like the precedent of it, and so we’re fighting it. I think we’re right.
- Sergey Brin
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
- Zig Ziglar
The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.
- Bill Gates
The concept of serviced apartments makes economic sense for tenancies of short to medium term duration – a fact many leading Hong Kong and overseas corporations now appreciate.
- Cheng Yu-tung
What you tolerate you can not change.
- Joel Olsteen
Only a company with great integrity and the resources to fight for what’s right can afford to take on the government.
- Jack Welch
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
- Napoleon Hill
Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
- Sam Walton
Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
Visibility remains limited, and this should come as no surprise, given that our customers’ visibility is limited.
- John Chambers
I think they are fine. I don’t think you have a choice between iPad models so that’s just saying that the iPad is good … that’s a very different statement (and contrary to the implication) that, if I chose not to upgrade now, less than a year after my last upgrade, then I, Woz, am saying that the new Apple iPad is bad.
- Steve Wozniak
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
- Peter Drucker
My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars – this is very important – so you don’t have to carry the return fuel when you go there.
- Elon Musk
There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
- Napoleon Hill
Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy – as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. That is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur. It was intended as a manifesto and as a declaration of dissent: the entrepreneur upsets and disorganizes. As Joseph Schumpeter formulated it, his task is “creative destruction.
- Peter Drucker
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
- Henry Ford
In the old days, Hong Kong was undeveloped, coming from a low base. Now it is on a high base, making it difficult to earn high multiples. We will certainly diversify out of Hong Kong and out of property. [On being asked where?] I don’t know. I haven’t found it yet.
- Lee Shau Kee
Failures are life’s way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.
- Sara Blakely
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
- Jeff Bezos
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
- P.T. Barnum
The one thing coaches cannot tolerate… is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
- Zig Ziglar
The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
- Bill Gates
I think our main real estate effort should be directed at getting out in front of expansion and letting the population build out to us.
- Sam Walton
My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn.
- Reid Hoffman
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
- Sam Walton
Great companies have secrets: specific reasons for success that other people don’t see.
- Peter Thiel
I worry about losing a real talent. I hate losing a great leader more than anything. I also hate it when I have to manager out a good person for poor performance or for simply doing something that is not in sync with our values. One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do in my life and I’ve had to do it more than once, is fire a friend.
- David Novak
Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.
- Howard Schultz
We can’t wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constituencies and do everything they can to demonstrate confidence in the economy, and I think that can be contagious.
- Howard Schultz
Fascinatingly, as companies begin to struggle, the third category always seems to grow much faster than the first. In addition, the sudden wave of “semi-performance-related attrition” usually happens in companies that claim to have a “super-high talent bar.” How do all these superstar employees suddenly go from great to crap?
- Ben Horowitz
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn’t exactly been one of moderation.
- Donald Trump
Instead of trying to use your technology and expertise to make a better product for your users’ standard behavior, experiment with inviting the users to change their behavior to make the product work dramatically better.
- Seth Godin
There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
Great CEOs face the pain. They deal with the sleepless nights, the cold sweats, and what my friend the great Alfred Chuang (legendary cofounder and CEO of BEA Systems) calls “the torture.” Whenever I meet a successful CEO, I ask them how they did it. Mediocre CEOs point to their brilliant strategic moves or their intuitive business sense or a variety of other self-congratulatory explanations. The great CEOs tend to be remarkably consistent in their answers. They all say, “I didn’t quit.
- Ben Horowitz
It’s just not right that so many things don’t work when they should. I don’t think that will change for a long time.
- Steve Wozniak
In the next decade, I see Spanx going worldwide. Everywhere. No butt left behind. It’s going to be all over the world and it’s going to be an aspirational brand that transcends categories. There’s so many things we can improve upon and make better.
- Sara Blakely
Whether you’re 9 or 90, stop trying to fix the things you’re bad at, and focus on the things you’re good at.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Capital isn’t scarce, vision is.
- Sam Walton
It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
- Joel Olsteen
Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
- Timothy Ferriss
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.
- Joel Olsteen
Money isn’t everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen.
- Zig Ziglar
A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.
- Seth Godin
The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a ‘genius’ is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
- Thomas Edison
With residential property prices having dropped by around two-thirds from their peak in 1997 and local interest rates dropping to their historic lows, mortgage payments currently falls below rental payment. This positive carry has led to property purchases by both home purchasers as well as investors. Further, with the local stock market becoming active again and reaching its highest level in the past 17 months, this has resulted in an increase in the number of transactions and a price for the luxury properties.
- Lee Shau Kee
No one has a transparent view of the world. In fact, we all carry around a personal worldview—the biases and experiences and expectations that color the way we perceive the world.
- Seth Godin
When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
- Howard Schultz
Blind we are, if creation of this clone army we could not see.
- Yoda
When unsavvy observers see a nonprofit organization with dozens of people on its board, they think: “Look how many great people are committed to this organization! It must be extremely well run.” Actually, a huge board will exercise no effective oversight at all; it merely provides cover for whatever microdictator actually runs the organization.
- Peter Thiel
Whatever your income, always live below your means.
- Thomas J Stanley
The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.
- Winston Churchill
Because we publicists are hired guns, reported don’t often put much stock in our pleas and arguments, at least not a first. I was told by one entertainment reporter from a large metropolitan paper, Publicists don’t believe in what they are selling. They’re just paid pitchmen.
- Michael Levine
We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.
- Elon Musk
Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can’t deal with the stress of the moment.
- Seth Godin
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
- Seth Godin
I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.
- Joel Olsteen
There’s always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It’s long since passed that a typical person doesn’t leave footprints.
- Bill Gates
Lost time is never found again.
- Benjamin Franklin
I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.
- Howard Schultz
Refuse to accept partial completeness.
- Timothy Ferriss
I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: He is nothing but a boy — a little boy!
- Dale Carnegie
It’s pretty chilly by southern California standards.
- Ed Clark
If you aim at nothing you will hit every time.
- Zig Ziglar
If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
