If You Want to Gather Honey, Don’t Kick Over the Beehive.
- Dale Carnegie
Notable Quotables
Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You’re the only one who can do it permanently.
- Zig Ziglar
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership—not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.
- Ronald Reagan
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
Every single important thing we do is something we didn’t use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
- Seth Godin
If you’re a Wal-Mart of a Meijer you can draw the shoppers without using signs to advertise your specials, … But when you’re a little guy, you really depend on those signs.
- Michael Ward
We modeled our employee stock ownership plan after Sam’s, and it worked well for us.
- Bernie Marcus
Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.
- John C. Maxwell
Everyone has the potential, but it isn’t accomplished overnight. It requires perseverance.
- John Maxwell
If you aim at nothing you will hit every time.
- Zig Ziglar
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
- Thomas Edison
After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.
- Vladimir Potanin
The ability to lead is more valuable than sugar or any other commodity
- John D. Rockefeller
The power of this new era is simple: if you want to (need to, must!) lead, then you can. It’s easier than ever and we need you. But if this isn’t the right moment, if this isn’t the right cause, then hold off. Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can.
- Seth Godin
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
- Peter Drucker
Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass – the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that – so they’re kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.
- Bill Gates
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Leadership, very simply, is about two things: 1. Truth and trust. 2. Ceaselessly seeking the former, relentlessly building the latter.
- Jack Welch
How you get up in the morning will play a big part in how high you go up in life.
- Zig Ziglar
The main cause of depression is traceable directly to the world-wide habit of trying to REAP without sowing.
- Napoleon Hill
That which becomes acceptable becomes inevitable.
- Michael Levine
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them….
- Thomas Edison
We subpoenaed him for the SAP trial and he was on the lam. The HP board sent him to Bolivia to talk to customers. Then they sent him to Mongolia to talk to customers, just out of reach of the federal subpoenas … the board figured out [later]: we should have left Leo in Mongolia.
- Larry Ellison
I’m a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
- Donald Trump
Why is this mediocre? We love to point out how broken our systems are. We enjoy getting angry at hotels or government agencies or airlines that are so obviously doing a poor job. Idiots! But we almost never look at merely mediocre products and wonder why they aren’t great. Mediocre services or products do what they’re supposed to, but have set the bar so low that it’s hardly worth the energy to cross the street to buy them. A resolute generic sameness pervades this mediocrity. Why isn’t every restaurant meal a fabulous buy for the money? Why isn’t every tax dollar spent with the intensity and focus it could be spent with? It seems as though we are willing to accept mediocre as long as the product, the service, or the organization isn’t totally broken.
- Seth Godin
The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
- Napoleon Hill
If you want to increase your success rate, double your rate of failure.
- Thomas J Watson
Music plays a very important role in my life. I’m a frustrated musician. I play the drums.
- Ronald Perelman
Many of our best opportunities were created out of necessity. The things that we were forced to learn and do, because we started out underfinanced and undercapitalized in these remote small communities, contributed mightily to the way we’ve grown as a company. Had we been capitalized, or had we been the offshoot of a large corporation the way I wanted to be, we might not ever have tried…
- Sam Walton
To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big.
- Aliko Dangote
The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can’t bit a target that you can’t see. If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.
- Zig Ziglar
Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
- Zig Ziglar
This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock, or an “opportunity” clock?
- Zig Ziglar
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.
- Bill Gates
The word ‘Spanx’ was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.
- Sara Blakely
Respect people’s wishes.
- Jack Dorsey
Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.
- Howard Schultz
Unfavorable Environment Influences During Childhood.
- Napoleon Hill
Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back. It’s time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.
- Seth Godin
It is becoming increasingly clear that the global economy is improving, … As customers feel more confident to invest, we believe that we are well positioned to provide compelling value as a strategic business adviser and technology partner.
- John Chambers
We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.
- Joel Olsteen
Search engine optimization is essentially about obtaining admission to an event in which you are competing. Getting invited to compete in the event has no bearing on how you do within the competition itself, but you don’t get to play in the game unless you are on Page 1 of Google search results.
- Clay Clark
In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It’s very expensive.
- Bill Gates
The success of the Overseas Chinese is the result of bad times in China itself. The Chinese who left the mother country had to struggle, and that became a culture of its own, passed on from father to son through each generation. Because we have no social security, the Overseas Chinese habit is to save a lot and make a lot of friends.
- Lee Shau Kee
I’m a normal guy.
- Jack Ma
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
- Oprah Winfrey
Andrew Carnegie believed the formula (of Think & Grow Rich) should be taught in all public schools and colleges, and expressed the opinion that if it were properly taught it would so revolutionize the entire education system that the time spent in school could be reduced to less than half….As far as (formal) schooling is concerned, many of the (great american business) men had very little.
- Napoleon Hill
I think growth covers up mistakes.
- Howard Schultz
People ask me all the time, ‘How can I become a successful entrepreneur?’ And I have to be honest: It’s one of my least favorite questions, because if you’re waiting for someone else’s advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you’re not one.
- Michael Dell
If you don’t love what you’re doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you’re not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.
- Howard Schultz
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, and do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.
- Joel Olsteen
China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it’s not an ‘us versus them,’ it’s an ‘us and them’ type scenario.
- Bill Gates
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey
Keep the big picture in mind. There are always opportunities and possibilities, and thinking too small can negate a lot of them.
- Donald Trump
If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.
- Harvey Mackay
There will be no government that will be against business, so you can go ahead and invest.
- Aliko Dangote
We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.
- Phil Knight
I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.
- Joel Olsteen
The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don’t design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don’t really care, as long as we’re selling the one the customer wants.
- Michael Dell
Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
- Zig Ziglar
The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.
- Azim Premji
I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.
- Jeff Bezos
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
One definition of hope is happy anticipation of something good.
- Joel Olsteen
I’ve operated and launched newspapers all over the world.
- Rupert Murdoch
Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Don’t marry too early in life. It’s better to work hard when young and establish a career first.
- Lee Shau Kee
We hate bureaucracy and all the nonsense that comes with it.
- Jack Welch
If the merit of the idea is strong, it spreads really quickly no matter who you are or where you are from.
- Jack Dorsey
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
- Richard Branson
Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.
- Guy Kawasaki
Run your business in harmony with God’s laws.
- David Green
Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.
- John C. Maxwell
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.
- Zig Ziglar
Meetings are by definition a concession to a deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
- Peter Drucker
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
- Confucius
Most of a tech company’s value will come at least 10 to 15 years in the future.
- Peter Thiel
I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same – they give the exact same advice. It’s like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.
- Ben Horowitz
Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.
- Bill Gates
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm.
- Vince Lombardi
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
- Zig Ziglar
We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
- Walt Disney
If you want to spend time saying this is cool, you’re going to get your ass kicked.
- Phil Knight
We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
- Bill Gates
Make it just like a Mac.
- Bill Gates
There are a great many wetless” bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge is the only way.
- Dale Carnegie
In the most minimal sense, the future is simply the set of all moments yet to come.
- Peter Thiel
If our company isn’t good enough to win, then do we need to exist at all?
- Ben Horowitz
There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
- Simon Sinek
Too often the investment in people stops there.
- Ben Horowitz
Another challenge is a phenomenon that I call the Law of Crappy People. The Law of Crappy People states: For any title level in a large organization, the talent on that level will eventually converge to the crappiest person with the title.
- Ben Horowitz
Waiting isn’t easy, which is precisely why it is so effective when engaging with other people.
- Seth Godin
The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.
- George Soros
Measuring requires, first and foremost, analytical ability. But it also demands that measurement be used to make self-control possible rather than abused to control people from the outside and above—that is, to dominate them. It is the common violation of this principle that largely explains why measurement is the weakest area in the work of the manager today. As long as measurements are abused as a tool of control (for instance, as when measurements are used, as a weapon of an internal secret police that supplies audits and critical appraisals of a manager’s performance to the boss without even sending a carbon copy to the manager himself) measuring will remain the weakest area in the manager’s performance.
- Peter Drucker
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.
- Peter Drucker
