Employers only handle the money – it is the customer who pays the wages.
- Henry Ford
Notable Quotables
I used to believe that a good product sold itself.
- Phil Knight
I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality. The eff …
- Andrew Carnegie
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
- Azim Premji
We’ve seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we’re seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.
- Sergey Brin
We are pleased to look back at another extremely successful financial year 2014 during which we achieved our targets.
- Elmar Degenhart
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
- Thomas Edison
Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.
- Rupert Murdoch
In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.
- Reed Hastings
Doubts [can] be swept away only by deeds.
- Winston Churchill
When you are a leader, your job is to have all the questions. You have to be incredibly comfortable looking like the dumbest person in the room. Every conversation you have about a decision, a proposal, or a piece of market information has to be filled with you saying, “What if?” and “Why not?” and “How come?
- Jack Welch
Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
- Dale Carnegie
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- Winston Churchill
We see no major changes in that model for the next several years. In fact, we are more optimistic about Cisco’s position and opportunities in both the enterprise and service provider markets than at any point in the last several years.
- John Chambers
I get calls from everybody asking if I know of any drivers, anybody they can hire.
- Jack Taylor
The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‘Bye!’
- Jerry Seinfeld
Who you attract is not determined by what you want. It’s determined by who you are.
- John Maxwell
On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, ‘What God do you pray to?’ What beliefs do you hold?’
- Michael Bloomberg
Establish late-payment penalties as part of your terms and conditions and enforce them.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Don’t water your weeds.
- Harvey Mackay
One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
- Seth Godin
The economy of Hong Kong was considerably stable in 2000. However, as the global economy experienced a slowdown since the beginning of 2001, the confidence of local home purchasers remained low notwithstanding that Hong Kong followed the footsteps of the United States of America in announcing consecutive reductions of interest rates as well as a series of measures implemented by the Government to stabilise local property prices.
- Lee Shau Kee
The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.
- Winston Churchill
I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.
- Rupert Murdoch
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
- John F. Kennedy
I’m a huge believer in clarity.
- Ben Horowitz
All that hullabaloo about somebody’s net worth is just stupid, and it’s made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
- Sam Walton
Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.
- Phil Knight
A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.
- James C. Collins
If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself.
- Stephen Wynn
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
- Harvey Mackay
I believe in motivating with humor. … – David Novak CEO OF Yum! Brands
- David Novak
Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.
- John C. Maxwell
Many people fail to make a favourable impression because they don’t listen attentively.
- Isaac F. Marcosson
This is a strange Christmas Eve,”Churchill told the the crowd of several hundred gathered at the mansion’s garden.”Almost the whole world is locked in deadly struggle, and with the most terrible weapons which science can devise the nations advance upon each other.
- Winston Churchill
The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.
- Seth Godin
Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed through practical plans of action…Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when and if it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
- Napoleon Hill
I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.
- Michael Bloomberg
The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.
- Bill Gates
Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.
- David Packard
We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don’t need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to be a dwindling voice in our culture. For the right librarian, this is the chance of a lifetime.
- Seth Godin
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.
- Winston Churchill
You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.
- Jerry Seinfeld
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.
- Jeff Bezos
I was not naturally talented. I didn’t sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
- Steve Martin
Of course people are getting smarter nowadays, they are letting lawyers instead of their conscience be their guides.
- Will Rogers
Only engage in mutually beneficial relationships.
- Clay Clark
In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
- Bill Gates
In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.
- Joel Olsteen
Losing an A is a sin. Love ‘em, hug ‘em, kiss ‘em, don’t lose them! We conduct postmortems on every A we lose and hold management accountable for losses.
- Jack Welch
I’m getting better. I’m improving. My health is coming back,” those words began to create a new image on the inside. Before long, they started seeing themselves strong, healthy, and whole.
- Joel Olsteen
Men want to make women happy.
- Jerry Seinfeld
In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
- Steve Wozniak
Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. …
- Dale Carnegie
We’ll be watching as the storm approaches. If we see a service area is about to be hit by high winds, we will literally have crews loaded and sitting in trucks, ready to go.
- Ed Clark
If salespeople don’t probe well for background information, they don’t know how to launch the presentation.
- Jerry Vass
With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks.
- Howard Schultz
Dreamline Questions:What are you good at?What could you be the best at?What makes you happy?What excites you?What makes you feel accomplished and good about yourself?What are you most proud of having accomplished in your life? Can you repeat this or further develop it?What do you enjoy sharing or experiencing with other people?
- Timothy Ferriss
From wherever you are, you can go anywhere you want to go if you pick the right roads to travel.
- Zig Ziglar
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
When you are committed to doing what’s right, you are sowing seeds for God’s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.
- Joel Olsteen
No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up. God sees your resolve. He sees your determination. And when you do everything you can do, that’s when God will step in and do what you can’t do.
- Joel Olsteen
My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.
- Rupert Murdoch
And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.
- Richard Branson
JANUARY 16 Reach Out by Faith For she said to herself, If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well.” But Jesus turned around, and when He saw her He said, Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well.” MATTHEW 9:21–22 NKJV ONE FELLOW WHOSE MARRIAGE was on the verge of dissolution told me, Joel, I’ve been this way for a long time. Nothing good ever happens to me. I don’t see how my marriage can be restored. We’ve always had these problems.” Those wrong attitudes will keep you from receiving the good things God wants to pour out in your life,” I told him. Stop dwelling on negative, destructive thoughts that keep you in a rut. Your life will change when you change your thinking.” God has so much more in store for him, and for you as well. If you want to see God’s far and beyond favor, you have to start believing it, seeing it, and speaking it.
- Joel Olsteen
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
- George Soros
The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.
- Harvey Mackay
The man who cannot control himself, can never control others. Self-control sets a mighty example for one’s followers, which the more intelligent will emulate.
- Napoleon Hill
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Intemperance.
- Napoleon Hill
If you think something hard is impossible, you’ll never even start trying to achieve it. Belief in secrets is an effective truth.
- Peter Thiel
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
- Peter Drucker
We are interested in others when they are interested in us.
- Dale Carnegie
Strive to be the very best you can be. Run the race against yourself and not the guy in the other lane. The reason I say that is, as long as you give it 110% you are going to succeed. But as long as you’re trying to beat the guy over there, you are worried about him; you’re not worrying about how you’ve got to perform
- Herschel Walker
Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ is my go-to song to pump myself up if I’m having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.
- Sara Blakely
I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian – or just being in show business, is really more accurate.
- Steve Martin
People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.
- Joel Olsteen
Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.
- Bill Gates
I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don’t misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
- Zig Ziglar
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
- Warren Buffett
What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.
- Mark Zuckerberg
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
- Peter Drucker
But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
- Ray Kroc
Look around. If you don’t see any salespeople, you’re the salesperson.
- Peter Thiel
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
- Oprah Winfrey
When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
- Bill Gates
If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
- Ray Kroc
Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.
- Seth Godin
I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
- Jeff Bezos
A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller
You hit what you aim at, and if you aim at nothing you will hit it every time.
- Zig Ziglar
When York’s son, hitherto Earl of March, learned that his father’s cause had devolved upon him he did not shrink. He fell upon the Earl of Wiltshire and the Welsh Lancastrians, and on February 2, 1461, at the Battle of Mortimer’s Cross, near Hereford, he beat and broke.
- Winston Churchill
With communication technology in general, there’s a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world’s entire population using one communication technology, that’s a big deal. It’s beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it’s a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.
- Ben Horowitz
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. It’s an awesome responsibility.
- Zig Ziglar
I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
- Tony Robbins
People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.
- Dale Carnegie
To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
- Jerry Seinfeld
