You have no ability, if you’re a financial institution and you’re threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
- Warren Buffett
Notable Quotables
Mind you, I got this reduction without saying a word about what I wanted. I talked all the time about what the other person wanted and how he could get it.
- Dale Carnegie
Personally, I just hope they (the LA Lakers) suck forever.
- Mark Cuban
Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
- Napoleon Hill
You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
- Elon Musk
there has never been a better time for testing the uncommon.
- Timothy Ferriss
Churchill was in the lavatory in the House of Commons and his secretary knocked on the door and said: Excuse me Prime Minister, but the Lord Privy Seal wishes to speak to you. After a pause Churchill replied: Tell His Lordship: I’m sealed on The Privy and can only deal with one shit at a time.
- Winston Churchill
New customers are silver…loyal customers are gold.
- Anonymous
A man should never neglect his family business.
- Walt Disney
In the Next Society’s corporation, top management will be the company. Everything else can be outsourced.
- Peter Drucker
Rap helps me connect emotionally.
- Ben Horowitz
I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.
- Jerry Seinfeld
I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.
- Ronald Perelman
If you can see the invisible, God will do the impossible.
- Joel Olsteen
Leadership must wake up every day with the mission of Finding a Better Way Every Day…There are no modest revolutions…GE was a place where the people got up everyday to searching for a better way.
- Jack Welch
The moment a leader allows himself to become the primary reality people worry about, rather than reality being the primary reality, you have a recipe for mediocrity, or worse. This is one of the key reasons why less charismatic leaders often produce better long-term results than their more charismatic counterparts.
- James C. Collins
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill
Most companies that are great at something – like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores – do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.
- Reed Hastings
Simply put, your job is to prepare yourself and your business for growth.
- Michael Gerber
A right delayed is a right denied.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.
- Joel Olsteen
It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.
- Ray Kroc
If you are unduly nervous, turn it around make your vulnerability an asset.
- Michael Levine
As I have heard said, a person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.
- Timothy Ferriss
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
- Steve Wozniak
We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.
- Michael Bloomberg
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
- Oprah Winfrey
Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
- Reed Hastings
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
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
- Steve Wozniak
The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.
- Bill Gates
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
Polio’s pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it’s just there as a gift for the rest of time.
- Bill Gates
The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.
- Bill Gates
95% financing arrangement offered by Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited in a period of sustained low interest have added impetus to secondary trading activities in the property market.
- Lee Shau Kee
Sales is a simple conversation where I ask you questions and I relate to your answers.
- Bryan Smith
Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.
- Lei Jun
It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.
- Reed Hastings
Control has to be by feedback from the work done. The work itself has to provide the information. If it has to be checked all the time, there is no control.
- Peter Drucker
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.
- Sergey Brin
Don’t Hire People Like Yourself.
- Forrest Ray
You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that’s it.
- Mukesh Ambani
Leanness is a methodology, not a goal. Making small changes to things that already exist might lead you to a local maximum, but it won’t help you find the global maximum.
- Peter Thiel
In the real world outside economic theory, every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.
- Peter Thiel
My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.
- Dale Carnegie
You can either fit in or stand out. Not both.
- Seth Godin
You’ll never achieve real success unless you like what you’re doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill
They want good stories. They aren’t paid to say, no. They’re paid to say yes to the right stories.
- Michael Levine
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
- Winston Churchill
If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says: I’m beaten. It is fate. I haven’t got a chance. Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of selfpity. But when the wise man is handed a lemon, he says: What lesson can I learn from this misfortune? How can I improve my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade?
- Dale Carnegie
Desire Is Born With Vision.
- Zig Ziglar
Stubborn isn’t a word I would use to describe myself, pigheaded is more appropriate.
- Michael Bloomberg
I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.
- Larry Page
In creating an ideavirus, the advertiser creates an environment in which the idea can replicate and spread. It’s the virus that does the work, not the marketer.
- Seth Godin
I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.
- Bill Gates
It is simply service that measures success.
- George Washington Carver
…[if you] use discrimination in the selection of your Master Mind group, your objective will have been half-way reached, even before you begin to recognize it.
- Napoleon Hill
It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
- Jeff Bezos
I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.
- Jerry Seinfeld
We think that athletes are human beings and have foibles just like human beings do…
- Phil Knight
Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business – and you can leverage that knowledge.
- Harvey Mackay
I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
- Elon Musk
Companies win when their managers make a clear and meaningful distinction between top- and bottom-performing businesses and people, when they cultivate the strong and cull the weak. Companies suffer when every business and person is treated equally and bets are sprinkled all around like rain on the ocean.
- Jack Welch
Our thoughts make us what we are.
- Dale Carnegie
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
- Bill Gates
I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
- Russell Simmons
Most people believe that results matter. The idea that results matter is one that you have to keep letting go of. And most of the time, I believe it.
- Russell Simmons
Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
- Bill Gates
Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.
- John C. Maxwell
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.
- Timothy Ferriss
It was the right thing to do.
- Phil Knight
What if there were no longer only two sides? Not just capital versus labor, but a third team, one that straddled elements of both? I think there’s a huge opportunity for a third kind of participant, a linchpin, and now there is an opportunity to change all the rules that we’ve lived with all our lives. There is a shortage of this third kind of worker, and that shortage means that the market needs you desperately. The con game is ending, at least for people passionate enough to do something about it.
- Seth Godin
I never hid my thoughts or feelings. During a business meeting I could get so emotionally charged and involved that I’d stammer out what others might consider to be outrageous things like, My six year old could do better than that! Or Don’t Walter Cronkite me!
- Solutions
It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
- Jerry Seinfeld
A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it.
- Seth Godin
When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing being self employed prior to this happening. It was my mental preparation meeting the opportunity in that moment.
- Sara Blakely
I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That’s always been my competitive advantage.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
I can’t stress enough the essential nature of really hearing what someone has to say even if it is totally contradictory to your own beliefs, and I wish this was a lesson I only had to learn once.
- David Novak
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries – discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .
- Thomas Edison
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
- Thomas Edison
When we put $4 billion into the U.S. economy, they were OK with this. When we preserved jobs in Dearborn, or preserved jobs in Columbus, or preserved jobs in Pennsylvania, everyone was happy.
- Alexei Mordashov
I am upset with the effect that both of these issues have had on the public,
- Michael Gerber
There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.
- Bill Gates
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
- Peter Drucker
All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.
- Peter Thiel
Young people, when they’re left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.
- Russell Simmons
There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.
- Joel Olsteen
I’m a little unusual: I’m a six-person-or-less extrovert.
- Reid Hoffman
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
- David Novak
Is it really necessary to work like a slave to live like a millionaire?
- Timothy Ferriss
Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.
- Donald Trump
A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
- Timothy Ferriss
I’ve been an entrepreneur since I was 18. I started a company with a bunch of buddies that got funded in my senior year, and that’s when I finished school. It was called Scour, a peer-to-peer service, file-sharing.
- Travis Kalanick
I always say, ‘To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!’
- Jorge Paulo Lemann
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It’s the image, not what you sing.
- Rod Stewart
In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It is also important to be optimistic and to look at challenges as opportunities.
- Henry Sy
And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
- John D. Rockefeller
What makes a startup employee instantly distinguishable to outsiders is the branded T-shirt or hoodie that makes him look the same as his co-workers. The startup uniform encapsulates a simple but essential principle: everyone at your company should be different in the same way—a tribe of like-minded people fiercely devoted to the company’s mission.
- Peter Thiel
If you end your training now — if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did — you will become an agent of evil.
- Yoda
