Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.
- Bill Gates
Notable Quotables
Control has to be by feedback from the work done. The work itself has to provide the information. If it has to be checked all the time, there is no control.
- Peter Drucker
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‘The government’s corrupt,’ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
- Bill Gates
Become genuinely interested in other people.
- Dale Carnegie
I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.
- Zig Ziglar
Look around. If you don’t see any salespeople, you’re the salesperson.
- Peter Thiel
Leadership isn’t something that people hand to you. … [i]t’s a gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are given authority. And that’s something we can teach.
- Seth Godin
If I had to single out one element in my life that has made difference for me, it would be a passion to compete.
- Sam Walton
Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
- Napoleon Hill
Remember that this is what separates the women from the girls. If you want to be great, this is the challenge. If you don’t want to be great, then you never should have started a company.
- Ben Horowitz
Humor is always a risky business.
- Phil Knight
Freely chosen, discipline is absolute freedom.
- James C. Collins
Abe Lincoln once remarked that most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Dale Carnegie
L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it’s just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.
- Steve Martin
Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you.
- Ray Dalio
when praise is specific, it comes across as sincere—not something the other person may be saying just to make one feel good.
- Dale Carnegie
Practice is simply preparation for success.
- Zig Ziglar
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
- James C. Collins
I like to live in the past. I don’t think people are going to get much fun in the future.
- Winston Churchill
Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.
- Zig Ziglar
Believe in your idea, trust your instincts, and don’t be afraid to fail. It took me two years from the time I had the idea for Spanx until the time I had a product in hand ready to sell into stores. I must have heard the word “no” a thousand times. If you believe in your idea 100%, don’t let anyone stop you! Not being afraid to fail is a key part of the success of Spanx.
- Sara Blakely
We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
- Bill Gates
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.
- Winston Churchill
Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn’t bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: Wouldn’t you like to have that? Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?
- Dale Carnegie
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
- Thomas Edison
A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.
- Seth Godin
I am pleased with the strides we’ve made in our global equipment business where revenues grew 41 percent this past quarter and 37 percent year-to-date, … The strong dollar continues to negatively impact our European results constant dollar revenues in Europe were up 23 percent in the second quarter.
- Phil Knight
Believe that you will succeed — and you will.
- Dale Carnegie
The time has come to act.
- Theodore Roosevelt
To my mind the old masters are not art, their value is in their scarcity.
- Thomas Edison
My personal opinion is that I’m in the media too much. I’m not a politician, I’m a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
- Viktor Vekselberg
My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?
- Stephen Wynn
Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.
- Sergey Brin
The final relationship that cannot be ignored is with disrupters: They are individuals who cause trouble for sport – inciting opposition to management for a variety of reasons, most of them petty. Usually these people have good performance – that’s their cover – and so they are endured or appeased. A company that manages people well takes disrupters head-on. First they give them very tough evaluations, naming their bad behaviour and demanding it change. Usually it won’t. Disrupters are a personality type. If that’s the case, get them out of the way of people trying to do their jobs. They’re poison.
- Jack Welch
This is Day 1 for the Internet and, if we execute well, for Amazon.com. Today, online commerce saves customers money and precious time. Tomorrow, through personalization, online commerce will accelerate the very process of discovery. Amazon.com uses the Internet to create real value for its customers and, by doing so, hopes to create an enduring franchise, even in established and large markets.
- Jeff Bezos
You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.
- Napoleon Hill
If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
- Benjamin Hooks
The Dip creates scarcity, scarcity creates value.
- Seth Godin
Selling your company to the media is a necessary part of selling it to everyone else.
- Peter Thiel
You may have made some mistakes, and you may not be where you want to be, but that has NOTHING to do with your future.
- Zig Ziglar
We must not let our standards be determined by the gentlemen of the oposition.
- Winston Churchill
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
- Seth Godin
A valuable business must start by finding a niche and dominating a small market.
- Peter Thiel
At the macro level, the single word for horizontal progress is globalization—taking things that work somewhere and making them work everywhere.
- Peter Thiel
The student who elects to risk it all—which is nothing—to establish an online video rental service that delivers $5,000 per month in income from a small niche of Blu-ray aficionados, a two-hour-per-week side project that allows him to work full-time as an animal rights lobbyist.
- Timothy Ferriss
How can I create something that critics will criticize?
- Seth Godin
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
- Zig Ziglar
Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.
- Ray Kroc
We’re talking about changing every aspect of our lives.
- John Chambers
I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
- Russell Simmons
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
- Winston Churchill
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
- Jeff Bezos
We saw strength across our core switching and routing businesses, as well as traction in our advanced technologies. The service provider and public sector segments, in particular, continue to be solid markets for our products.
- John Chambers
I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
- Warren Buffett
If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won’t need to spend it on advertising.
- Seth Godin
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
What shall I do with all my books?’ was the question, and the answer, ‘Read them,’ sobered the questioner. But if you cannot read them, at the very least handle them and, as it were, fondle them. Peer into them. Let them fall open as they will. Read on from the first sentence that turns the eye. Then turn to another. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas. Set them back on their shelves with your own hands. Arrange them on your own plan, so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. If they cannot be your friends, let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.
- Winston Churchill
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization…. Such war-making weapons should be developed – but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation.
- Thomas Edison
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
- Timothy Ferriss
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble…We want to buy them when they’re on the operating table.
- Warren Buffett
All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.
- Peter Thiel
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.
- Seth Godin
Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once.
- Drew Houston
Now when I consider investing in a startup, I study the founding teams. Technical abilities and complementary skill sets matter, but how well the founders know each other and how well they work together matter just as much. Founders should share a prehistory before they start a company together—otherwise they’re just rolling dice.
- Peter Thiel
A broad trend I’m completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I’m completely convinced that everybody’s going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I’m very interested in.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.
- Winston Churchill
People need to buy homes.
- Cheng Yu-tung
I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.
- Mark Zuckerberg
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.
- Rupert Murdoch
In two or three minutes Mr. Roosevelt came through. “Mr. President, what’s this about Japan?” “It’s quite true,” he replied. “They have attacked us at Pearl Harbour. We are all in the same boat now.
- Winston Churchill
If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
- John C. Maxwell
Momentum is a little fragile, and when people got excited before, they were disappointed, … But this is the most positive guidance we’ve given in eight quarters, going into a seasonally challenging quarter.
- John Chambers
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin
The Group is well positioned to meet the challenges ahead and will as ever continue to pursue higher growth.
- Cheng Yu-tung
When you are unbalanced you can launch things
- Rachel Faucett
Fulfilling the vision of the Irvine Ranch master plan has been a lifetime dedication and lifetime passion, and I am hopeful the heritage of our Irvine stewardship will live on in many new ways.
- Donald Bren
You may think there is a lot wrong with you, but there is also a lot right with you.
- Joel Olsteen
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
- Russell Simmons
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
- Jack Welch
Most poor people live in the poorest countries.
- Bill Gates
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
- Ray Kroc
And well you should not. For my ally in the Force. And a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. It’s energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we…(Yoda pinches Luke’s shoulder)…not this crude matter. (a sweeping gesture) You must feel the Force around you. (gesturing) Here, between you…me…the tree…the rock…everywhere! Yes, even between this land and that ship!
- Yoda
Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
- Wang Jianlin
It seems like a good cause. I’ve been watching it on TV and, it makes me want to help.
- Ed Clark
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
- Harvey Mackay
Uncontrolled Desire For Something For Nothing.
- Napoleon Hill
[Medco] had a different culture with respect to spending money. I believe health care demands that we be as frugal as possible and pay money for things that matter. We’re pretty frugal. Everybody has the same size offices. Everybody has the same size cube. There are no perks.
- George Paz
We want to be the most predictable, boring growth company.
- John Chambers
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
- Peter Drucker
The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange.
- Peter Thiel
It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.
- John C. Maxwell
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
- Bill Gates
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
- Thomas Edison
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. Why are we such fools—such tragic fools?
- Dale Carnegie
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
- Seth Godin
