But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it’s a lie and they’re protected if the person’s famous or it’s a company.
- Steve Wozniak
Notable Quotables
I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?’
- Elon Musk
New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
- Zig Ziglar
When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.
- Larry Ellison
The people of Southwest have always been my pride, my joy and my love. Their indomitable dedication and esprit de corps have taken Southwest from a three-airplane dream to a 500-airplane reality.
- Herb Kelleher
I was so mad I ran a personal record.
- Phil Knight
I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
- Jeff Bezos
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone needs to be appreciated. Every person needs that blessing.
- Joel Olsteen
“High expectations are the key to everything.”
- Sam Walton
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.
- Richard Branson
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
Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.
- Dale Carnegie
Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
- Rupert Murdoch
Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you’ve determined that you don’t like dirty old stinky wine – old-world flavors – you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
- Elon Musk
The S.A.L.H. were mostly South Africans, with a high proportion of hardbitten adventurers from all quarters of the world, including a Confederate trooper from the American Civil War.
- Winston Churchill
The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
- Steve Martin
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Tell your child, your spouse, or your employee that he or she is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, has no gift for it, and is doing it all wrong, and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve.
- Dale Carnegie
hombre que conozco es superior a mí en algún sentido. En ese sentido, aprendo de él.
- Dale Carnegie
Lots of people will give you advice… and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.
- Abigail Johnson
Don’t romance Wall Street. You don’t want investors who are only concerned about the quarter, or who are working on their exit strategy from day one. You want shareholders to own you forever. If we have no trading at all, I consider that a tremendous accomplishment.
- Warren Buffett
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead. I don’t want to live thinking about how I’ll be remembered.
- Carlos Slim Helu
We base our investment strategies on quality, trust, synergy and initiative.
- Cheng Yu-tung
What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.
- Peter Thiel
If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Mike suggested that we might want to turn our stockholders’ meetings into an event, and we went along with him.
- Sam Walton
What’s also missing is a sense of relationship. People suffer in isolation from one another. In a world without purpose, without meaningful values, what have we to share but our emptiness, the needy fragments of our superficial selves? As a result, most of us scramble about hungrily seeking distraction, in music, in television, in people, in drugs. And most of all we seek things. Things to wear and things to do. Things to fill the emptiness. Things to shore up our eroding sense of self. Things to which we can attach meaning, significance, life. We’ve fast become a world of things. And most people are being buried in the profusion. What most people need, then, is a place of community that has purpose, order, and meaning. A place in which being human is a prerequisite, but acting human is essential. A place where the generally disorganized thinking that pervades our culture becomes organized and clearly focused on a specific worthwhile result. A place where discipline and will become prized for what they are: the backbone of enterprise and action, of being what you are intentionally instead of accidentally. A place that replaces the home most of us have lost. That’s what a business can do; it can create a Game Worth Playing.
- Michael Gerber
I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.
- Joel Olsteen
I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat.
- Winston Churchill
Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.
- Zig Ziglar
Since we happened to be good at shoes, we thought we could be successful with casual shoes. But we got our brains beat out.
- Phil Knight
To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith.
- Russell Simmons
No one is guaranteed a job in this.
- Jack Welch
You have enough people against you… be for yourself.
- Joel Olsteen
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
- Henry Ford
By swallowing evil word unsaid noone has ever yet harmed his stomach.
- Winston Churchill
I can’t really comment on rumors.
- Larry Page
A disagreement or incident involving someone who’s not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.
- Joel Olsteen
Consumers are spontaneous and if you can catch their attention, that’s going to increase the chance that they will look at your product.
- Jack Taylor
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don’t base your self-esteem on their opinions.
- Harvey Mackay
A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Riches does not mean money. You can never have enough money. By following the principles of God he will provide you with what you need materially and internal committment.
- Ben Meinhardt
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once ‘The Unnecessary War’.
- Winston Churchill
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill
In fact, stories only magnify the need to have something remarkable (and honest) to say.
- Seth Godin
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
- Dale Carnegie
You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.
- Joel Olsteen
My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
- Joel Olsteen
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
- Peter Drucker
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
I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family that would have killed for each other – and we still are. x
- Richard Branson
I’m blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
- Joel Olsteen
I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.
- Richard Branson
Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust.
- Howard Schultz
A company has a monopoly on its own brand by definition, so creating a strong brand is a powerful way to claim a monopoly.
- Peter Thiel
They have done great things within what you would call established American sports. Freddy has the potential to bring soccer almost for the first time into the public’s consciousness. Soccer in the United States isn’t really part of the culture. What it needs, I think, is a superhero, and he clearly could be it. Now, that’s putting a lot of pressure on him, but the kid’s got all the potential to do that.
- Phil Knight
The Habit of Indiscriminate Spending.
- Napoleon Hill
I watch mostly independent films.
- Reed Hastings
Don’t try to create a new market prematurely. The only way to know you have a real business is to start with an already existing customer, so you should build your company by improving on recognizable products already offered by successful competitors.
- Peter Thiel
Anatomy of a MovementSenator Bill Bradley defines a movement as having three elements: (1) A narrative that tells a story about who we are and the future we’re trying to build. (2) A connection between and among the leader and the tribe. (3) Something to do – the fewer limits the better. Too often organizations fail to do anything but the third.
- Seth Godin
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
A knowledge worker, is responsible for actions and decisions which are meant to contribute to the performance capacity of his organization. It is meant for every one of the men I call executives.
- Peter Drucker
We do lots of Stuff. The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.
- Sergey Brin
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not to put this plan into action.
- Napoleon Hill
Online I see people committing ‘social media suicide’ all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you’re never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don’t warrant a response.
- Tim Ferris
At the end of the day … Nexium is Nexium, Lipitor is Lipitor, drugs are drugs, and it shouldn’t matter that much who’s counting to 30.
- George Paz
A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it’s extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let’s make it’s easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
- Jack Dorsey
Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.
- Joel Olsteen
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll probably end up somewhere else.
- Zig Ziglar
We’re trying to identify the key influencers and make them distribution points.
- Jack Dorsey
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
- Andrew Carnegie
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
- Winston Churchill
Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.
- John C. Maxwell
The boy you trained, gone he is. Consumed by Darth Vader.
- Yoda
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.
- Sara Blakely
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
- Winston Churchill
I’m a big believer than a great bit is a great bit – if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they’re beautiful things when they’re done.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today’s world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
- Jack Welch
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
- Elon Musk
Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
- Zig Ziglar
The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
- John C. Maxwell
[On Twitter] We believe that fundamentally we are building a utility.
- Jack Dorsey
If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
- Elon Musk
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Seneca
Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.
- Timothy Ferriss
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn’t love them.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.
- Timothy Ferriss
The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.
- Jerry Seinfeld
You want your customers to value your service.
- Jeff Bezos
Le Reve’ may be one of the three best pictures Pablo Picasso ever painted.
- Stephen Wynn
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
We just sort of factor all that information into the computer between the ears and come up with conclusions.
- Phil Knight
