In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.
- Bill Gates
Notable Quotables
How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.
- John C. Maxwell
Who decides what’s in Windows? The customers who buy it.
- Bill Gates
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
I feel that people I trusted – I don’t know who, on what level – have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it’s for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I’m the best person to see it through.
- Rupert Murdoch
Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.
- Tadashi Yanai
Perfect target market for a startup is a small group of particular.
- Peter Thiel
I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.
- Donald Trump
It’s not like I’m anti-China. I just think it’s ridiculous that we allow them to do what they’re doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.
- Donald Trump
I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.
- Bill Gates
It’s always darkest before the dawn.
- Anonymous
There will be no pissing on partners in the shower.
- Phil Knight
Do the Right Thing.
- Phil Knight
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
- Winston Churchill
It’s easier for investors and bosses to spend time and money going after a proven market, even though proven markets are the hardest to break into.
- Seth Godin
On all open platforms, regardless of whether it’s Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It’s the largest revenue segment. And it’s the same for Tencent.
- Ma Huateng
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
- Bill Gates
It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.
- Joel Olsteen
My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.
- Steve Wozniak
When your hobbies get in the way of your work – that’s OK, but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves… well.
- Steve Martin
The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.
- Larry Ellison
My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that’s what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
don’t talk about the way you are. Talk about the way you want to be.
- Joel Olsteen
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
- P.T. Barnum
There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.
- P.T. Barnum
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn’t at least two of the four. I read the front-page headlines through.
- Timothy Ferriss
Whenever you are speaking, both your passion for your business and your appearance will have a lasting impact on your audience.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Now when I consider investing in a startup, I study the founding teams. Technical abilities and complementary skill sets matter, but how well the founders know each other and how well they work together matter just as much. Founders should share a prehistory before they start a company together—otherwise they’re just rolling dice.
- Peter Thiel
I’ve seen executives improve their performance and skill sets, I’ve never seen one lose the support of the organization and then regain it.
- Ben Horowitz
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
- Zig Ziglar
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.
- Howard Schultz
I’ve got the greatest job in the world. There’s no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people’s lives. It’s a great challenge.
- Michael Bloomberg
We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.
- Steve Jobs
Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.
- Winston Churchill
The more people I serve, the richer I become.
- Robert Kiyosaki
I don’t get caught up in the moment.
- Ray Dalio
A right delayed is a right denied.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Don’t buy preground coffee.
- Howard Schultz
I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.
- Elon Musk
God, I’m not going to look at what I don’t have. I’m looking unto you. I know in my weakness, you show up the strongest.
- Joel Olsteen
Most good ideas are already out there, and to learn about them, all you have to do is ask the right people.
- David Novak
There are few words which are used more loosely than the word “Civilization.” What does it mean? It means a society based upon the opinion of civilians. It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained. That is Civilization—and in its soil grow continually freedom, comfort, and culture. When Civilization reigns, in any country, a wider and less harassed life is afforded to the masses of the people. The traditions of the past are cherished, and the inheritance bequeathed to us by former wise or valiant men becomes a rich estate to be enjoyed and used by all.
- Winston Churchill
We will make our products work out of the box.
- Steve Ballmer
Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
- Joel Olsteen
On John D. Rockefeller and the ideal entrepreneur: He embodied all its virtues of thrift, self-reliance, hard work, and unflagging enterprise.
- Ron Chernow
People going nowhere want company.
- Brian Tracy
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- Henry Ford
Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
- Winston Churchill
I start where the last man left off.
- Thomas Edison
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.
- Mark Zuckerberg
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
- John D. Rockefeller
You can’t fault government for seizing that opportunity. But it has an impact on Barbados’ current account deficit and it does bring with it attended risks. And, therefore, you have to ask whether or not the tourism business that is going to be generated from the publicity around the cricket matches will be sustained after the cricket matches are over.
- John Chambers
Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.
- Dale Carnegie
People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Olsteen
Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
- Bill Gates
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
Marketing knits the whole organization together.
- Phil Knight
Indeed, the biggest winners in the world are those who answer yes to the question, “Am I living the life I choose?”
- Jack Welch
I think there’s a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
- Ben Horowitz
Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don’t give ’em a green card.
- Michael Bloomberg
When you do things the right way, you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear.
- Zig Ziglar
Keeping score is for games, not friendships.
- John C. Maxwell
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
- Howard Schultz
Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
- Sam Walton
People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what’s right for the economy.
- Michael Bloomberg
You can’t jump to vegan if you’re not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual.
- Russell Simmons
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
- Henry Ford
Just as ships are built to sail the seas and planes to fly the heavens, so is man created for a purpose.
- Zig Ziglar
This is just going to be a great event and we have an outstanding speaker.
- Jack Taylor
It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.
- Peter Thiel
When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.
- Josh James
If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.
- Bill Gates
The future of advertising is the Internet.
- Bill Gates
I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn’t I would still speak to them.
- Sam Walton
I am a self-made brat.
- Stephen Wynn
It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.
- Mark Cuban
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
- Peter Drucker
There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, ‘We don’t offer bribes’, or companies that operate only by market rules.
- Wang Jianlin
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
- Bill Gates
There are only two kinds of employees that I’ve run across in 30 years. There are ones that get results, and ones that make excuses. If you’re in that second camp, you’re not going to like Dish.
- Charles Ergen
Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
- Steve Jobs
We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
- Warren Buffett
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
- Oprah Winfrey
With sustained recovery of the local economy, marked improvement in consumer spending and increasing tourist arrivals from Mainland China, these led to the expansion of certain local retail trades including cosmetics, audio-visual products and jewellery which in turn boosted the demand for retail shop spaces.
- Lee Shau Kee
In the Next Society’s corporation, top management will be the company. Everything else can be outsourced.
- Peter Drucker
Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.
- Bill Gates
The lower and individual’s ability to lead, the lower the lid on his potential.
- John Maxwell
The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.
- Peter Drucker
The more you know, the more you care.
- Sam Walton
Group projects are the exception in school, but they should be the norm.
- Seth Godin
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
- Thomas Edison
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
- Zig Ziglar
The first thing I would do for anyone who’s trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.
- Timothy Ferriss
Berkshire’s record would have been terrible if Warren didn’t keep learning.
- Charlie Munger
India has rapidly risen to become a major force in the global economy.
- John Chambers
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
- Ben Horowitz
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
