Seeing is not always believing.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Notable Quotables
We will be one of the most productive residential developers in China in the next few years.
- Lee Shau Kee
We just tried to get our shoes on the feet of runners.
- Phil Knight
There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.
- Henry Sy
It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you’re doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.
- Ray Dalio
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
- Henry Ford
My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
- Zig Ziglar
There are no longer any great jobs where someone else tells you precisely what to do.
- Seth Godin
The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn’t affect them.
- Azim Premji
If you don’t agree with the core principles, which are the premise of that compromise, then you have to have what I call principled confrontation. And so that is the thing that we do that I think can rub some people the wrong way.
- Travis Kalanick
Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart.
- Joel Olsteen
Some employees make products, some make sales; the CEO makes decisions. Therefore, a CEO can most accurately be measured by the speed and quality of those decisions.
- Ben Horowitz
Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
- Larry Ellison
Then he fell on his knees and cried out, Lord do not hold this sin against them. When he said this, he fell asleep (he died).
- Acts 7:60
If you count E-mail, I’m on the Internet all day, every day.
- Bill Gates
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot
Most of our wives are planners and meticulous budgeters. In fact, only 18 percent of us disagreed with the statement Charity begins at home. Most of us will tell you that our wives are a lot more conservative with money than we are.
- Thomas J Stanley
Transparency in the traditional school might destroy it.
- Seth Godin
If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to get something out of the other person in return – if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.
- Dale Carnegie
It’s our faith that activates the power of God.
- Joel Olsteen
Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
- Dale Carnegie
We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.
- Michael Bloomberg
Well we know that people in Austrailia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.
- Richard Branson
They (the competition) need to avoid coming at us head-on, and do their own thing better than we do ours. It doesn’t make any sense to try to underprice Wal-Mart (DJC) on something like toothpaste (DJ Prices). That’s not what the customer is looking to a small store for anyway. Most independents are best off, I think, doing what I prided myself on doing for many years as a storekeeper, getting out on the floor and meeting everyone of the customers. Let them know how much you appreciate them, and ring that cash register yourself. That little personal touch is so important for an independent merchant because no matter how hard Wal-Mart tries to duplicate – and we try awfully hard – we can’t really do it.
- Sam Walton
A wise man is a confirmed optimist.
- Andrew Carnegie
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- Winston Churchill
Every company starts only once.
- Peter Thiel
Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous.
- Peter Thiel
We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us.
- Winston Churchill
Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn’t good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.
- Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
- Zig Ziglar
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
- Warren Buffett
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
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
- Jeff Bezos
The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.
- Zig Ziglar
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.
- Winston Churchill
At the end of the day, I guess my feeling is that it was sort of a failure to communicate.
- Phil Knight
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy
- Jim Rohn
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
- Thomas Edison
Each morning before breakfast, Rockefeller led the family in prayer, charging out a penny fine to latecomers.
- Ron Chernow
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
- Donald Trump
Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do.
- Timothy Ferriss
It’s true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.
- John C. Maxwell
When people write checks, they are depleting an asset. And when people are using credit cards, they are increasing their liabilities. In other words, credit cards make it so much easier to get deeper and deeper into debt by increasing your monthly liabilties.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
- Colin Powell
God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
- Joel Olsteen
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
We’re absolutely going to have a better facility.
- Ed Clark
I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.
- Joel Olsteen
We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time
- Sara Blakely
The fastest and best way to build value for your business is to build your people
- Clay Clark
It’s quite complicated and sounds circular, but we’ve worked out a way of calculate a Web site’s importance.
- Larry Page
When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.
- Jerry Seinfeld
If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
- Jeff Bezos
The essential thing to know about the Dip is that it’s there. Knowing that you’re facing a Dip is the first step in getting through it.
- Seth Godin
Refrain from throwing the executive under the bus.
- Ben Horowitz
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
- Sun Tzu
It’s not about size, it’s about your ability to make a difference. At that small size, collaboration is all the more important.
- John Chambers
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
- Michael Bloomberg
You can expect what you inspect.
- W. Clement Stone
Dinner would have been splendid…if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.
- Winston Churchill
Be a victor , not a victim.
- Joel Olsteen
All my friends ask me, ‘Am I number one in the world in [receiving] dividend payments?’ I say, ‘I don’t know, ask Forbes.’
- Lee Shau Kee
Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.
- Seth Godin
Kremlin political intrigues are comparable to a bulldog fight under a rug. An outsider only hears the growling, and when he sees the bones fly out from beneath it is obvious who won.
- Winston Churchill
The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch
We’ll see how that evolves. Obviously, it doesn’t mean we’ll just be willing to do anything that’s requested of us.
- Sergey Brin
Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.
- Bill Gates
The Group adopts a two-pronged strategy in its business development in mainland China. In the prime cities, the Group targets those prime sites with heavy pedestrian flow and easy access for development into large-scale complexes of exceptional design and quality. In the second-tier cities, which are mostly provincial capitals or municipalities with a preponderance of middle class residents, the Group focuses on large-scale developments so as to achieve an efficient use of land as well as long-term appreciation in property value.
- Lee Shau Kee
The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‘Oh nom it’s on the house.’
- Richard Branson
Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats.
- Jim Collins
It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
- Winston Churchill
Conformity no longer leads to comfort. But the good news is that creativity is scarce, and more valuable than ever. So is choosing to do something unpredictable and brave: make art. Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things you’re an artist, no matter what it says on your business card.
- Seth Godin
The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success.
- P.T. Barnum
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
We’re seeing an explosion in new approaches, new models and new forms of interaction. This growth comes from change, insight and exploration, not obedience.
- Seth Godin
To say that there are no secrets left today would mean that we live in a society with no hidden injustices.
- Peter Thiel
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
- Steve Wozniak
Put time limits on each item. Set an agenda for your meeting and your trips to Disney World.
- David Robinson
I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.
- Joel Olsteen
You can be passionate about anything.
- Jerry Seinfeld
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
- Winston Churchill
The way to stay ahead was through product innovation. We happened to be great at it.
- Phil Knight
We’re better than the rest of the country but we shouldn’t believe it too much.
- Peter Thiel
It takes a decade to grow trees but a century to nurture human beings.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
- Bill Gates
People with the right kind of ambition would not likely use the word play to describe their effort to work as a team to build something substantial. Finally, people who use the “me” prism find it natural and obvious to speak in terms of “building out my résumé” while people who use the “team” prism find such phrases to be somewhat uncomfortable and awkward, because they clearly indicate an individual goal that is separate from the team goal.
- Ben Horowitz
Startups operate on the principle that you need to work with other people to get stuff done, but you also need to stay small enough so that you actually can. Positively defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
- Peter Thiel
Call it the emergence of a “world’s bank” – a system built by and for the people, delivering credit in America and across the globe in a radically decentralized, highly scalable, and crucially equitable way. The World Bank funds institutions.The world’s bank funds people.
- Reid Hoffman
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
I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years – part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.
- Peter Thiel
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
Churchill was in the lavatory in the House of Commons and his secretary knocked on the door and said: Excuse me Prime Minister, but the Lord Privy Seal wishes to speak to you. After a pause Churchill replied: Tell His Lordship: I’m sealed on The Privy and can only deal with one shit at a time.
- Winston Churchill
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
- Zig Ziglar
I am a self-made brat.
- Stephen Wynn
In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.
- Reed Hastings
Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. HEBREWS 11:1.
- Joel Olsteen
Foreign politicians don’t have resources – or limited resources. It’s useless dealing with them.
- Wang Jianlin
