Change before you have to.
- Jack Welch
Notable Quotables
War will find us whether we are ready or not.
- Winston Churchill
If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
- John C. Maxwell
For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.
- Tony Hsieh
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to gain mighty triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither gain much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Wealth won’t give you satisfaction, creating a good product that’s well received by users is what matters most.
- Ma Huateng
The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more things you’ll have to express gratitude for.
- Zig Ziglar
Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I’ve never played with a band. I’ve always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.
- Steve Martin
Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
- Wang Jianlin
India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.
- Bill Gates
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
May all of your creations have just the right flavor.
- Timothy Ferriss
It’s clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.
- Seth Godin
$1,000,000 in the bank isn’t the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.
- Timothy Ferriss
We survive the market volatility and political changes. We cater for the actual need of the people and keep pace with the country.
- Cheng Yu-tung
In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now). At the other extreme, a lone genius might create a classic work of art or literature, but he could never create an entire industry. Startups operate on the principle that you need to work with other people to get stuff done, but you also need to stay small enough so that you actually can.
- Peter Thiel
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
- Seth Godin
Developing a customer who loves the business so much that they become an unpaid and passionate marketer for the company.
- Clay Clark
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
- Jeff Bezos
Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
- Zig Ziglar
Hold on to that new, enlarge vision of victory that God has given you. Start expecting things to change in your favor. Dare to boldly declare that you are standing strong against the forces of darkness.
- Joel Olsteen
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
- Napoleon Hill
People with the right kind of ambition would not likely use the word play to describe their effort to work as a team to build something substantial. Finally, people who use the “me” prism find it natural and obvious to speak in terms of “building out my résumé” while people who use the “team” prism find such phrases to be somewhat uncomfortable and awkward, because they clearly indicate an individual goal that is separate from the team goal.
- Ben Horowitz
Restructuring a job usually means restructuring a score of jobs, moving people around, and upsetting everybody. There is one exception: the exceedingly rare, truly exceptional man for whose sake the rule should be broken.
- Peter Drucker
Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”, that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
- Peter Drucker
The flexibility of Hong Kong businessmen should soon twist a way to success again.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
- Thomas Edison
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
Surround yourself with people who want the best for you and the people you love!
- Zig Ziglar
Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.
- John C. Maxwell
Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.
- Mark Zuckerberg
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
- Oprah Winfrey
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
- Og Mandino
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
Enjoy the moment.
- Jack Dorsey
As long as a person doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, he doesn’t grow.
- John Maxwell
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
- John C. Maxwell
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
- Peter Drucker
I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.
- Jerry Seinfeld
In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
- Bill Gates
It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.
- Bill Gates
The only career worth pursuing is the one that turns your crank.
- Jack Welch
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can’t learn anything from being perfect.
- Adam Osborne
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
If you are satisfied with the results you are now getting, why change? If you are not satisfied, why not experiment?
- Dale Carnegie
Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
- Bill Gates
A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
- John C. Maxwell
In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.
- Elon Musk
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
- John C. Maxwell
My advice for an entrepreneur just starting out is to differentiate yourself. Why are you different? What’s important about you? Why does the customer need you?
- Sara Blakely
I was not naturally talented. I didn’t sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
- Steve Martin
Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‘Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.’ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.
- Bill Gates
Let us work together to take Hong Kong to new heights.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Success is determined by your daily agenda
- John Maxwell
There’s a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there’s a time when one has to step up… to set the organization back on the right direction.
- Abigail Johnson
The rest of their generation was left behind, but the wealthy Boomers who shape public opinion today see little reason to question their naïve optimism.
- Peter Thiel
What did I do that was right—and in what way could I have improved my performance? What lessons can I learn from that experience?
- Dale Carnegie
So many people label themselves a failure when they fail at something. Instead, the entrepreneurial spirit is realizing that these failures are a necessary part of the path to wherever you’re going to end up.
- Tony Hsieh
This is indicative of how quickly CEO caution can put the foot on the brake.
- John Chambers
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. Now I am.
- Elon Musk
Confidence in our own independence of mind. But advertising doesn’t exist to make you buy a product right away, it exists to embed subtle impressions that will drive sales later. Anyone who can’t acknowledge its likely effect on himself is doubly deceived.
- Peter Thiel
Well… I graduated from the business school of Northumberland University in Newcastle.
- Alexei Mordashov
What I’m trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that there’s inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your entire portfolio that gets you balanced.
- Ray Dalio
Simplicity scales. Complexity does not.
- David Nilssen
Although DJ Clay may never sleep, all of his dreams come true!
- Blake Fraley
Age doesn’t matter: an open mind does.
- Timothy Ferriss
Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice Doggie until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
The first ten minutes of sorting through clothing was like choosing which child of mine should live or die.
- Timothy Ferriss
A Good Mentor… Is Direct Yet Supportive. It’s no use if a mentor softens his language to make you feel good aboutyourself. A good mentor is direct yet supportive. Even difficult messages can be delivered in a supportive way. The best mentors offer practical, timely advice and encourage you to take action.
- Rod Ebrahimi
Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Any time a company grows as fast as Wal-Mart has, pockets of duplication are going to build up, and there will be areas of the business which we may no longer need. No boss or employee really likes to dwell on such matters; it’s only human nature not to want to have your job, or the jobs of the people who work for you, eliminated. But it is absolutely the responsibility of a company’s top management to be thinking about this issue all the time – to ensure the sound future for the overall company.
- Sam Walton
At the end of the day, I guess my feeling is that it was sort of a failure to communicate.
- Phil Knight
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
- Zig Ziglar
If you learn to pray bold prayers… it allows God to do big things in your life.
- Joel Olsteen
Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.
- Zig Ziglar
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
- Bill Gates
[On Twitter] This company is bigger than any individual.
- Jack Dorsey
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
- Dale Carnegie
If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.
- Bill Gates
Don’t kill competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you – the entrepreneur – on your toes.
- Aliko Dangote
Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat.
- James C. Collins
The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.
- Winston Churchill
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win — essential to success.
- Napoleon Hill
Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war. Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am strong.
- Joel 3:9
I find that a duck’s opinion of me is very much influenced over whether or not I have bread
- Mitch Hedberg
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters – to make them personalities.
- Walt Disney
When you start a company, it’s a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.
- Howard Schultz
What one does easily, one does well.
- Andrew Carnegie
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
- Jack Welch
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
- Walt Disney
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
- Walt Disney
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
- Bill Gates
A waitress goes up to Winston Churchill and says, ‘Sir, your drunk.’ To which he replies, ‘I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
- Winston Churchill
Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
- Zig Ziglar
There’s a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in streaming.
- Reed Hastings
Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
- Steve Jobs
Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.
- Timothy Ferriss
To succeed consistently, good managers need to be skilled not just in choosing, training, and motivating the right people for the right job, but in choosing, building, and preparing the right organization for the job as well.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
- Bill Gates