Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.
- Lei Jun
Notable Quotables
Churchill used words for different purposes: to argue for moral and political causes, to advocate courses of action in the social, national and international spheres, and to tell the story of his own life and that of Britain and its place in the world.
- Winston Churchill
Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.
- Bill Gates
You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.
- Zig Ziglar
Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
- Larry Page
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked
- Warren Buffett
Humans, particularly those who build things, only listen to leading indicators of good news.
- Ben Horowitz
The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.
- Michael Bloomberg
Make sure your ego lies in the performance of the company, not in the performance of the stock.
- Warren Buffett
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there’s no ball, there’s no game. Bullies hate that. So they’ll either behave so they can play with you or they’ll go bully someone else.
- Seth Godin
Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
- Tadashi Yanai
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
- Jack Welch
I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You’ve got to be truthful. I don’t think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you’ve got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.
- Howard Schultz
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
- Bill Gates
Follow the GOLDEN RULE. Do unto others as you would have them do onto you.
- David Robinson
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
- Dale Carnegie
No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
- Bill Gates
China’s movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.
- Wang Jianlin
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
- John C. Maxwell
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
If any of my competitors were drowning, I’d stick a hose in their mouth
- Ray Kroc
The bigger we get as a company, the more important it becomes for us to shift responsibility and authority toward the front lines, toward the department manager who’s stocking the shelves and talking to the customer. When we were much smaller, I probably wasn’t as quick to catch on to this idea as I do should have been. But as an avid student of management theory, back in the mid-seventies I started reading the work of W. Edwards Deming, the famous statistician who taught so much to the Japanese about improving their productivity and competitiveness.
- Sam Walton
You can also make a 10x improvement through superior integrated design.
- Peter Thiel
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
- Malcolm X
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
- Thomas Edison
IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I’m far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read ‘Tech Crunch,’ ‘Ad Age.’ I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
The economy in Hong Kong remained on a declining path. Occurrence of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (‘SARS’) in March this year led to a sharp drop in consumer spending and an increasing unemployment rate. The decline in the economy resulted in downward adjustment in the property market.
- Lee Shau Kee
Get ready, get ready, get ready, to get ready.
- T.D Jakes
You have enough people against you… be for yourself.
- Joel Olsteen
The screwball. Humor can often be effective and with this style, it’s emphasized. Appeal to the journalist’s heightened sense of the unusual. Stunts, sideshows, ancillary themes are put to work here.
- Michael Levine
Establish good internal controls over the handling of cash. The people who record the cash receipts on the bank deposits must be different from those who post it to the accounts receivable and general ledger.
- Robert Kiyosaki
War will find us whether we are ready or not.
- Winston Churchill
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
- Steve Jobs
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- Ray Dalio
We got to know a lot of investors and know what they like and don’t like. Through many co-investments opportunities, we have built trust among these investors. So when it came to investing in Xiaomi, things were a lot easier.
- Lei Jun
Making it good at scale means admitting that it must be different and embracing the changes that you’ll need to make to keep things from falling apart.
- Ben Horowitz
I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I’d love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, ‘Make America great again.’
- Donald Trump
You’re never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.
- Bill Gates
Often the best way to develop workers – when you are sure they have the character and think they have the ability – is to take them to a deep place, throw them in and make them sink or swim.
- John D. Rockefeller
I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the Government needed a dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success and I will risk the dictatorship.
- Dale Carnegie
THE MOST CONTENTIOUS question in business is whether success comes from luck or skill.
- Peter Thiel
I have the best job I could possibly have.
- Michael Bloomberg
A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Always deliver more than expected.
- Larry Page
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
- Mark Twain
You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying. Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
- Napoleon Hill
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it’s hard to trust somebody that you don’t know.
- Ben Horowitz
If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value
- Warren Buffett
Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.
- Peter Thiel
The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
- Seth Godin
I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.
- Ray Dalio
If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that’s not going to promote healthiness.
- Larry Page
People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
- Timothy Ferriss
Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
- John C. Maxwell
If you want to help the poor and our next generation, make investment, reinvestment and businesses welcome.
- Gina Rinehart
Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.
- Michael Dell
I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realized that the toning and shaping was perfect and that the hosiery material is thin enough that I could make shape wear out of it.
- Sara Blakely
Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.
- Henry Ford
So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box office. For example, what we pay for a film three years later is highly correlated to how well it did in the box office.
- Reed Hastings
People are poor judges of importance and inflate minutiae to fill time and feel important.
- Timothy Ferriss
The engineer’s grail is a product great enough that “it sells itself.
- Peter Thiel
Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
- Albert Einstein
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
- Rupert Murdoch
Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.
- Sara Blakely
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important – and then get out of their way while they do it.
- Jack Welch
I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.
- Harvey Mackay
If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
- Peter Thiel
you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.
- Dale Carnegie
Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn’t. It’s just the opposite. What I think is brutal and false kindness is keeping people around who aren’t going to grow and prosper. There’s no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don’t belong – just when the options are limited and they’re putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.
- Jack Welch
In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
- Bill Gates
Use your feelings, Obi-Wan, and find him you will.
- Yoda
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
- Walt Disney
In the real world outside economic theory, every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.
- Peter Thiel
The Struggle is when you wonder why you started the company in the first place. The Struggle is when people ask you why you don’t quit and you don’t know the answer. The Struggle is when your employees think you are lying and you think they may be right. The Struggle is when food loses its taste. The Struggle is when you don’t believe you should be CEO of your company. The Struggle is when you know that you are in over your head and you know that you cannot be replaced. The Struggle is when everybody thinks you are an idiot, but nobody will fire you. The Struggle is where self-doubt becomes self-hatred. The Struggle is when you are having a conversation with someone and you can’t hear a word that they are saying because all you can hear is the Struggle. The Struggle is when you want the pain to stop. The Struggle is unhappiness. The Struggle is when you go on vacation to feel better and you feel worse. The Struggle is when you are surrounded by people and you are all alone. The Struggle has no mercy. The Struggle is the land of broken promises and crushed dreams. The Struggle is a cold sweat. The Struggle is where your guts boil so much that you feel like you are going to spit blood. The Struggle is not failure, but it causes failure. Especially if you are weak. Always if you are weak. Most people are not strong enough. Every great entrepreneur from Steve Jobs to Mark Zuckerberg went through the Struggle and struggle they did, so you are not alone. But that does not mean that you will make it. You may not make it. That is why it is the Struggle. The Struggle is where greatness comes from.
- Ben Horowitz
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Refrain from throwing the executive under the bus.
- Ben Horowitz
In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.
- Howard Schultz
Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. HEBREWS 11:1.
- Joel Olsteen
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
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
- Warren Buffett
Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
- Steve Jobs
Out that expending emotional labor, working without a map, and driving in the dark involve confronting fear and living with the pain of vulnerability. The artist comes to a détente with these emotions and, instead of fighting with them, dances with them. The linchpin connects as a result of the indispensable nature of her contribution. The artist, on the other hand, connects because that’s what art is. The artist touches part of what it means to be truly human and does that work again and again.
- Seth Godin
Nonetheless, that know-how is often unmanageable. Avoidable failures are commmon and persistent, not to mention demoralizing and frustrating, across many fields – from medicine to finance, business to government. And the reason is increasingly evident: the volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely, or reliably. Knowledge has both saved us and burdened us. That means we need a different strategy for overcoming failure, one that builds on experience and takes advantage of the knowledge people have but somehow also makes up for our inevitable human inadequacies. And there is such a strategy – though it will seem almost ridiculous in its simplicity, maybe even crazy to those of us who have spent years carefully developing ever more advanced skills and technologies. It is a checklist.
- Atul Gawande
If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won’t need to spend it on advertising.
- Seth Godin
Get your fire back.
- Joel Olsteen
Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
- Dale Carnegie
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
- Steve Jobs
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
- Andrew Carnegie
I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
- Walt Disney
The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.
- Bill Gates
Your margin is my opportunity.
- Jeff Bezos
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend
- Martin Luther King Jr.
A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.
- John Shedd
At the very beginning I actually felt a bit nervous. I didn’t have much experience in gaming.
- Lui Che Woo
God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.
- Joel Olsteen
When you simplify… When you get down to the essence, you fix so many things.
- Jack Dorsey
