Notable Quotables

The customer reaction to Dell going private has been a lot more positive than I would have ever imagined. Customers see it as – ‘You don’t have to be distracted. Now you can totally focus on your business.’ So they see it as a positive.

- Michael Dell

New World Group believes that the desire to change and surmount the status quo will be the key to advancement and progression.

- Cheng Yu-tung

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

- Napoleon Hill

That’s why hiring consultants doesn’t work. Part-time employees don’t work. Even working remotely should be avoided, because misalignment can creep in whenever colleagues aren’t together full-time, in the same place, every day. If you’re deciding whether to bring someone on board, the decision is binary. Ken Kesey was right: you’re either on the bus or off the bus.

- Peter Thiel

Opportunity is often missed because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas Edison

Names are the sweetest, most important sound in any language.

- Dale Carnegie

We think that athletes are human beings and have foibles just like human beings do…

- Phil Knight

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

- Zig Ziglar

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn’t have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

- Howard Schultz

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

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

- Bill Gates

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

- Jeff Bezos

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can’t control.

- Michael Bloomberg

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

- Elon Musk

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

- Woodrow Wilson

I DECLARE I am special and extraordinary. I am not average! I have been custom-made. I am one of a kind. Of all the things God created, what He is the most proud of is me. I am His masterpiece, his most prized possession. I will keep my head held high, knowing I am a child of the most high God, made in his very image. This is my declaration.

- Joel Olsteen

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

- Jerry Seinfeld

I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.

- Sara Blakely

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

- Bill Gates

The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure, but to build one that is worthy of enduring.

- Jim Collins

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

- Winston Churchill

Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the entrepreneurial mind in the United States.

- Masayoshi Son

I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And they were incredibly moving.

- Steve Martin

If you are unduly nervous, turn it around make your vulnerability an asset.

- Michael Levine

But the three rules I always stuck with were 1) Be on time 2) No profanity and 3) Never criticize a teammate.

- David Novak

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

- Napoleon Hill

Cows, after you’ve seen them for a while, are boring. They may be perfect cows, attractive cows, cows with great personalities, cows lit by beautiful light, but they’re still boring.

- Seth Godin

Whatever the trend in exchange rates or whatever the external factors, a manufacturing company is always faced with the mission of transforming itself into a company that can produce higher value-added to absorb the increase in the cost of living in the country it’s operating in.

- Fujio Mitarai

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

- Elon Musk

You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing.

- Dale Carnegie

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

- Joel Olsteen

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

- Elon Musk

Determine your destiny or somebody else will.

- Jack Welch

The secret of his success? I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.

- Dale Carnegie

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we’re a long, long ways from that.

- Larry Page

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

- Thomas Edison

Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That’s what consumer confidence is.

- Howard Schultz

Mr. Carnegie’s Master Mind group consisted of a staff of approximately 50 men, with whom he surrounded himself, for the definiteness purpose of manufacturing and marketing steel. He attributed his entire fortune to the POWER he accumulated through this Master Mind…Great POWER CAN BE ACCUMULATED THROUGH NO OTHER PRINCIPLE.

- Napoleon Hill

With vision and foresight, thorough consideration, careful planning and steadfast commitment, the New World Group will continue to maintain its ambitious yet healthy investment strategy to grow together with the nation and strive for greater success in the future.

- Cheng Yu-tung

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

- George Soros

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

- Winston Churchill

I’m less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.

- Jack Dorsey

Even if you are predisposed to being overweight, you’re not predestined to be fat.

- Timothy Ferriss

Once Microsoft lost its grip on developers, it became only a matter of time before it lost its monopoly on operating systems.

- Ben Horowitz

I cut the feet off of a pair of panty hose and it allowed me to wear a pair of great strappy sandals. I didn’t see lines but the hose rolled up at my feet – and that’s how Spanx born.

- Sara Blakely

Do you know what that word reign means? It means, time in power.” God said we’re to reign how long? In life. That means as long as you’re alive that is your time in power.

- Joel Olsteen

[In February 2011 on Square.] Starting a startup after twitter is so much easier than before.

- Jack Dorsey

[On someone with a new idea.] The first thing is to draw it out, program it, play with it and get other people playing with it so you can get feedback right away… Once you get that feedback you know if it’s something you should pursue and give more of your attention to, or if it’s something you should put on the shelf for another da

- Jack Dorsey

if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.

- Dale Carnegie

It’s what we wrestle with every single day. The intersection of comfort, danger, and safety. The balancing act between vulnerability and shame. The opportunity (or the risk) to do art. The willingness to take responsibility for caring enough to make a difference and to have a point of view.

- Seth Godin

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.”

- Bill Gates

If you are going to be successful, you must develop persistence. How do you do that? It is not easily condensed in one simple statement, but one thing you can be sure of is that your must define your purpose.

- Zig Ziglar

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm.

- Vince Lombardi

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

- Napoleon Hill

Quality is much better than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

- Steve Jobs

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things. I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

- Elon Musk

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

- Mark Zuckerberg

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.

- Jerry Seinfeld

Going the extra mile is the action of rendering more and better service than that for which you are presently paid. When you go the extra mile, the Law of Compensation comes into play.

- Napoleon Hill

It’s not about toughness, it’s not about attitude. Companies don’t fail for lack of cash or attitude. Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.

- Mark Cuban

The most important lesson in entrepreneurship: Embrace the struggle.

- Ben Horowitz

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply.

- Stephen R. Covey

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

- Howard Schultz

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

- Elon Musk

And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret. Concentrate your energy, thoughts and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged in. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line; to lead in it. Adopt every improvement, have the best machinery and know the most about it.

- Andrew Carnegie

You can’t grow long-term if you can’t eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

- Jack Welch

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

- Zig Ziglar

Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.

- Michael Dell

Maintain a pragmatic approach, keep up with the multitude of trials and strive to remain its level of attainment in order for achieving sound performance and scaling new heights.

- Cheng Yu-tung

I’m just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

- Ray Dalio

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

- Winston Churchill

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

- Seth Godin

People will always blame the poets for society’s ills. But these are the true artists.

- Russell Simmons

Without promotion, something terrible happens… nothing!

- P.T. Barnum

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly–until you can learn to do it well.

- Zig Ziglar

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

- Zig Ziglar

People buy titles, and not contents of books. By merely changing the name of one book that was not moving his sales on that book jumped upward more a million copies. The inside of the book was no changed in any way. He merely ripped off the cover bearing the title that did not sell, and put on new cover with a title that had box-office value.

- Napoleon Hill

The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

- Jack Welch

We all prospect, and don’t even know we’re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you’re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

- Zig Ziglar

Getting every employee’s mind into the game is a huge part of what the CEO job is all about. Taking everyone’s best ideas and transferring them to others it the secret. Nothing is more important.

- Jack Welch

I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.

- Jack Ma

If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.

- Jeff Bezos

You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.

- Gary Keller

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

- Elon Musk

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

- Henry Ford

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