Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.
- Peter Drucker
Notable Quotables
That’s why I can tell you with confidence that you are coming into greater victories. Enlarge your vision. Take the limits off God. You have not seen your best days. God has victories in your future that will amaze you. He will show up and show out in unusual ways. You may be in a tough time right now, but remember this: The enemy always fights you the hardest when he knows God has something great in store for you.
- Joel Olsteen
Freely chosen, discipline is absolute freedom.
- James C. Collins
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
- Seth Godin
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
- Peter Drucker
Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.
- Bill Gates
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
- Henry Ford
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk
Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.
- Sergey Brin
In the face of challenging economic and market conditions of the past 12 months, our diversified portfolio of multiple earnings streams has served us well.
- Cheng Yu-tung
One of the things that school is for is to teach our children to understand and relish the idea of intellectualism, to develop into something more than a purpose-driven tool for the industrial state.
- Seth Godin
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
- Bill Gates
The first three-and-a-half months of calendar year 2001 have been extremely challenging for many of us in high-tech.
- John Chambers
I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.
- Howard Schultz
Profit and cash flow are not the same thing.
- Robert Kiyosaki
We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger, how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull’s-eye of disaster.
- Winston Churchill
I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I’ve tried to really stress that.
- Larry Page
Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion.
- Timothy Ferriss
By establishing a reputation as being a person who always renders more service and better service than that for which you are paid, you will benefit by comparison with those around you who do not render such service, and the contrast will be so noticeable that there will be keen competition for your services, no matter what your life-work may be.
- Napoleon Hill
Our culture works hard to prevent change.
- Seth Godin
As it happened, we did extraordinarily well with our Newport Wal-Mart, and it wasn’t too long before the old Ben Franklin store I had run on Front Street had to close its doors. You can’t say we ran that guy – the landlord’s son – out of business. His customers were the ones who shut him down. They voted with their feet. Quite a few smaller stores have gone out of business during the time of Wal-Mart’s growth. Some people have tried to turn it into this big controversy, sort of a Save the Small-Town Merchants deal, like they were whales or whooping cranes of something that has the right to be protected…If you become a large-scale success it’s Katie bar the door. Suddenly, you make a very convenient villian because everybody seems to love shooting at who’s on top.
- Sam Walton
This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
- Thomas Edison
Lack of Capital.
- Napoleon Hill
You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.
- Howard Schultz
I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997. That was my first professional online play
- Gary Vaynerchuk
There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.
- Mark Zuckerberg
I shall pass this way but once. Therefore any good that I can do or any kindness that I can show-let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
- Dale Carnegie
Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.
- John C. Maxwell
Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you’ll accomplish.
- Harvey Mackay
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
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
Key to helping poor is to not be poor.
- Abraham Lincoln
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
- P.T. Barnum
The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
- Seth Godin
What’s important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn’t satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn’t right, or if the offerings aren’t right, it’s the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don’t get hung up on zeros.
- Jack Welch
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
- Bob Dylan
[On an American taking second place in the Olympics] He didn’t win the silver, he lost the gold
- Phil Knight
What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?
- Sam Walton
If you want the people in the stores to take care of the customers, you have to make sure you’re taking care of the people in the stores. That’s the most important single ingredient of Wal-Mart’s success.
- Sam Walton
I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
- Zig Ziglar
Many people are unhappy and are not experiencing life to its fullest because they’ve closed their hearts to compassion, they are motivated by only what they want and what they think they need. They rarely do anything for anybody else unless they have an ulterior goal in mind. They are self-involved and self-centered.
- Joel Olsteen
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
- Seth Godin
The lesson for business is that we need founders. If anything, we should be more tolerant of founders who seem strange or extreme; we need unusual individuals to lead companies beyond mere incrementalism.
- Peter Thiel
You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
- Seth Godin
I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.
- Joel Olsteen
The Government simply cannot make up their mind or they cannot get the prime minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful for impotency. And so we go on preparing more months more years precious perhaps vital for the greatness of Britain for the locusts to eat. – Speaking in the Address in Reply debate, after giving some specific instances of Germany’s war preparedness.
- Winston Churchill
If you want people to know how much you care, show them how much you remember. Learn their names and use them often. It’s an important skill to develop.
- Harvey Mackay
From an operational perspective, this quarter was a home run.
- John Chambers
Be ready for problems–you’ll have them every day. Keep open to new ideas–that’s where innovation begins.
- Donald Trump
All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
- Ray Kroc
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
- Dale Carnegie
Some people are averse to change, but the advertising model is going to change with or without the Hopper. What we’re saying to the broadcasters is, ‘There’s a way for you not to put your head in the sand.’
- Charles Ergen
God doesn’t look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.
- Mother Teresa
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
- Dave Barry
I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
- Seth Godin
By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Chance made us sisters. Hearts made us friends.
- Zig Ziglar
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known
- Walt Disney
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
- Ben Horowitz
It’s a lot cheaper to be a pirate than a pioneer.
- Tim Redmond
The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
- Zig Ziglar
If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.
- James C. Collins
The problem with common sense is that it’s not really that common. – David Novak CEO of Yum! Brands
- David Novak
The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.
- Bill Gates
What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‘Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.’
- Bill Gates
As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.
- John C. Maxwell
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
E – Executions, how to get things done
- Jack Welch
You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance.
- Peter Thiel
The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.
- John C. Maxwell
I have a calendar life that is complicated, so I use BusyCal and Google Calendar. I keep two different browsers open to avoid some confusion.
- Steve Wozniak
Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
- Andrew Carnegie
Any area of achievement in your life required you to stick with the basics until you became great…it’s not about learning 4,000 moves but about doing just a handful of moves 4,000 times.
- Chet Holmes
Selling and delivering a product is at least as important as the product itself.
- Peter Thiel
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
- Anthony Robbins
Stop doing things that waste time. Don’t replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that’s something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
When you have one million dollars, you’re a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you’ve got trouble, a lot of headaches. When you have more than one billion dollars, or a hundred million dollars, that’s a responsibility you have – it’s the trust of people on you, because people believe you can spend money better than the others.
- Jack Ma
Entrepreneurs must think in specifics with laser-like precision.
- Jack Nadel
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Insufficient Education (not formal education).
- Napoleon Hill
I’d say it’s been my biggest problem of my life…it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
- Walt Disney
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
- Zig Ziglar
Know when to stop.
- Jack Dorsey
If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.
- George Foreman
Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw the stars.
- Dale Carnegie
Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world’s major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
- Tadashi Yanai
Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.
- Joel Olsteen
People are always coming up to me and saying, ‘I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.’ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.
- Bill Gates
On John D. Rockefeller and the ideal entrepreneur: He embodied all its virtues of thrift, self-reliance, hard work, and unflagging enterprise.
- Ron Chernow
We’re talking about changing every aspect of our lives.
- John Chambers
There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
- Oprah Winfrey
We were guerilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit.
- Phil Knight
Great opportunities can be and have been created during tough economic times.
- Howard Schultz
At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
- Howard Schultz
Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.
- Sergey Brin
I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It’s really a different product category.
- Jeff Bezos
