Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
- Ron Chernow
Notable Quotables
The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself.
- Joel Olsteen
Don’t use your words to describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.
- Joel Olsteen
No company has a culture, every company is a culture.
- Peter Thiel
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
- Jerry Seinfeld
I felt that it’s best just to be as transparent as possible.
- Rupert Murdoch
Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you’ve got, you’re more likely to do it.And this is precisely why it’s difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.
- Seth Godin
If it wasn’t a mystery, it would be easy. If it were easy, it wouldn’t be worth much.
- Seth Godin
My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it’s someone’s home that you walk through.
- Larry Ellison
My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I’m wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.
- Ray Dalio
It truly levels the playing field and puts all the emphasis on the content. And all the emphasis on the merit of the idea.
- Jack Dorsey
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
- Seth Godin
Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.
- Bill Gates
Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- Theodore Roosevelt
People have been indoctrinated so completely by their jobs that they don’t want to know how something works, they’re willing to accept that perhaps the laws of nature don’t work as they expect, and by the way, can I have the remote?
- Seth Godin
Nobody kicks a dead dog.
- Dale Carnegie
Rule No.1: Never lose money.Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
- Warren Buffett
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!
- Steve Wozniak
A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller
If it’s not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people, that’s when God is going to make sure that His abundant blessings overtake you.
- Joel Olsteen
The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
- Bill Gates
Enduring great companies don’t exist merely to deliver returns to shareholders. Indeed, in a truly great company, profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life, but they are not the very point of life.
- James C. Collins
People use so much more health care when they live longer.
- Michael Bloomberg
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
Refuse to accept partial completeness.
- Timothy Ferriss
Competition and capitalism are opposites.
- Peter Thiel
Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.
- John C. Maxwell
An analysis of several hundred people who had accumulated fortunes well beyond the million dollar mark, disclosed the fact that every one of theme had the habit of reaching decisions promptly, and changing these decisions slowly if and when they were changed…The major weaknes of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of DEFINITE DECISION…Most individuals lack the will-power to reach decisions promptly, and to stand by them after they have been made, even during normal business conditions.
- Napoleon Hill
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
- Peter Drucker
Whatever the trend in exchange rates or whatever the external factors, a manufacturing company is always faced with the mission of transforming itself into a company that can produce higher value-added to absorb the increase in the cost of living in the country it’s operating in.
- Fujio Mitarai
To achieve stable growth, an enterprise must live up to its conviction.
- Cheng Yu-tung
You watch television and see what’s going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing’s going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.
- Stephen Wynn
Whether it’s eight o’clock in the morning or eight o’clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.
- Zig Ziglar
The husband and wife who open another delicatessen store or another Mexican restaurant in the American suburb surely take a risk. But are they entrepreneurs? All they do is what has been done many times before. They gamble on the increasing popularity of eating out in their area, but create neither a new satisfaction nor new consumer demand. Seen under this perspective they are surely not entrepreneurs even though theirs is a new venture. McDonald’s, however, was entrepreneurship. It did not invent anything, to be sure. Its final product was what any decent American restaurant had produced years ago. But by applying management concepts and management techniques (asking, What is “value” to the customer?), standardizing the “product,” designing process and tools, and by basing training on the analysis of the work to be done and then setting the standards it required, McDonald’s both drastically upgraded the yield from resources, and created a new market and a new customer. This is entrepreneurship.
- Peter Drucker
When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‘Oh, it must be so hard.’ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.
- Jerry Seinfeld
about 15 percent of one’s financial success is due to one’s technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering—to personality and the ability to lead people.
- Dale Carnegie
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
- Thomas Edison
Speeches will not distribute the future.
- Jack Dorsey
America gets its opinions from advertising.
- Phil Knight
One out of every five page views in the United States is on Facebook!
- Gary Vaynerchuk
On an opponent:”He loves the working man. He loves to see him work.
- Winston Churchill
Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.
- Joel Olsteen
A new company’s most important strength is new thinking: even more important than nimbleness, small size affords space to think.
- Peter Thiel
Who am I winning for? Am I winning for Oracle shareholders or is it simply a matter of personal vanity? I’ll admit to it. Mea culpa. An awful lot of it is personal vanity.
- Larry Ellison
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
- Oprah Winfrey
Eroom’s law—that’s Moore’s law backward—observes that the number of new drugs approved per billion dollars spent on R&D has halved every nine years since 1950.
- Peter Thiel
Life really happens at intersections.
- Jack Dorsey
The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.
- Dale Carnegie
We are the masters of our fate.
- Winston Churchill
Today our challenge is to both imagine and create the new technologies that can make the 21st century more peaceful and prosperous than the 20th.
- Peter Thiel
Success is best when it’s shared.
- Howard Schultz
It’s paradoxical, but you want to identify the things that can kill you and engage them sooner. This is part of the metric behind fail fast. Of course, you’re not actually trying to fail; you want to succeed. But failing fast is much better than failing slowly, since it enables you to quickly to pivot, iterate, and redeploy capital. The one key mistake is that people tend to work first on the problems that they have the most confidence they can solve. In a good startup strategy you actually want to face death soonest because then you fail fast or get on a great path to success fast. Identify the hardest problems and try to solve those as soon as you can.
- Reid Hoffman
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
- John Lennon
The secret of his success? I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
- Dale Carnegie
The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Remarkable doesn’t mean remarkable to you. It means remarkable to me. Am I going to make a remark about it? If not, then you’re average, and average is for losers.
- Seth Godin
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
- Bill Gates
I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven’t had any moral compass, who’ve just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they’re losers.
- Michael Bloomberg
Don’t romance Wall Street. You don’t want investors who are only concerned about the quarter, or who are working on their exit strategy from day one. You want shareholders to own you forever. If we have no trading at all, I consider that a tremendous accomplishment.
- Warren Buffett
If I was down to my last dollar, I would spend it on public relations.
- Bill Gates
I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.
- Warren Buffett
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Simply stated, the value of a business today is the sum of all the money it will make in the future.
- Peter Thiel
If you don’t know how it works, find out. If you’re not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn’t make sense, play with it until it does. If it’s not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.
- Seth Godin
Create a vision and personalize it. People need to say, I understand it, I’m excited about it, and I can make it happen.
- David Novak
The first step to thinking clearly is to question what we think we know about the past.
- Peter Thiel
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
- Seth Godin
Be fair. You have to be able to see their point of view.
- Michael Levine
Happiness does not depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
I thought ‘Borat’ was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn’t some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
- Steve Martin
Happens to every guy sometimes this does.
- Yoda
After all, a man’s Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.
- Winston Churchill
Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
- Jack Ma
Be willing to make the mistakes and realizing that something can happen later – the patience are some of the things I would advise.
- Jack Dorsey
When life gives you lemons make lemonade!!
- Dale Carnegie
We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
- Joel Olsteen
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
The worst day of a man’s life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Today’s “best practices” lead to dead ends, the best paths are new and untried.
- Peter Thiel
Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines wont make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa and its about getting a balance.
- Richard Branson
From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
You can be happy where you are.
- Joel Olsteen
No matter what happens, always be yourself.
- Dale Carnegie
It’s a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.
- Steve Martin
One of the first things you learn when you run an engineering organization is that a good quality assurance organization cannot build a high-quality product, but it can tell you when the development team builds a low quality product. Similarly, a high quality human resources organization cannot make you a well-managed company with a great culture, but it can tell you when you and your managers are not getting the job done.
- Ben Horowitz
The most important thing to understand is that the job of a big company executive is very different from the job of a small company executive. When I was managing thousands of people at Hewlett-Packard after the sale of Opsware, there was an incredible number of incoming demands on my time. Everyone wanted a piece of me. Little companies wanted to partner with me or sell themselves to me, people in my organization needed approvals, other business units needed my help, customers wanted my attention, and so forth. As a result, I spent most of my time optimizing and tuning the existing business. Most of the work that I did was “incoming.” In fact, most skilled big company executives will tell you that if you have more than three new initiatives in a quarter, you are trying to do too much. As a result, big company executives tend to be interrupt-driven. In contrast, when you are a startup executive, nothing happens unless you make it happen. In the early days of a company, you have to take eight to ten new initiatives a day or the company will stand still. There is no inertia that’s putting the company in motion. Without massive input from you, the company will stay at rest.
- Ben Horowitz
I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.
- Joel Olsteen
A man should never neglect his family business.
- Walt Disney
We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
- Alexei Mordashov
It’s Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
- Larry Ellison
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- Steve Jobs
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
- Napoleon Hill
We can consider 140 characters to be the full story, but it’s not. It’s just a caption. A headline for something broader.
- Jack Dorsey
When I have spare time, I catch up on things I’ve had to postpone due to lack of time.
- Steve Wozniak
General and undifferentiated pitches don’t say anything about why a recruit should join your company instead of many others.
- Peter Thiel
All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We’ve got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.
- Steve Ballmer
The good-will of a business which is losing money is not worth much.
- Ron Chernow
