MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.
- Winston Churchill
Notable Quotables
Complaints are your best learning opportunity
- Bill Gates
Let’s never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let’s do as General Eisenhower does: let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.
- Dale Carnegie
Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.
- Zig Ziglar
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
- Ben Horowitz
The greatest business people I’ve met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
- Michael Gerber
I have mentioned before that financial intelligence is a synergy of accounting, investing, marketing and law. Combine those four technical skills and making money with money is easier.
- Robert Kiyosaki
I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that’s a big deal. And if you’re going to be a leader – if you’re a leader and you’re the smartest guy in the world – in the room, you’ve got real problems.
- Jack Welch
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
- Peter Drucker
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
- Napoleon Hill
My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
- Elon Musk
Buddha said: ‘Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love,’ and a misunderstanding is never ended by an argument but by tact, diplomacy, conciliation and a sympathetic desire to see the other person’s viewpoint.
- Dale Carnegie
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill
I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.
- Sara Blakely
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
- John C. Maxwell
Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Passion is everything. In fact, you’ve got to be borderline fanatical about what you do.
- Chris Gardner
Speak up for those who cannot speak up for themselves.
- Proverbs 31:8
I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.
- Russell Simmons
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
- Steve Martin
I’m skeptical that the novel will be ‘re-invented.’
- Jeff Bezos
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
- Henry Ford
The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings.
- Sam Walton
Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It’s hard to break into a network once it’s formed.
- Elon Musk
I think the word rich is all relative.
- Joel Olsteen
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
- Jack Welch
I had a feeling once about Mathematics – that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me – the Byss and Abyss. I saw – as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor’s Show – a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.
- Winston Churchill
What has changed is that people have stopped working together.
- Michael Bloomberg
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds
- Warren Buffett
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
- Napoleon Hill
You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It’s starting to really become a cool thing for young people.
- Russell Simmons
If you can deny your talents, if you can conceal them from others or, even better, persuade yourself that they weren’t even given to you, you’re off the hook. And being off the hook is a key element of the industrialized school’s promise. It lets parents off the hook, certainly, since the institution takes over the teaching. It lets teachers off the hook, since the curriculum is preordained and the results are tested. And it lets students off the hook, because the road is clearly marked and the map is handed to everyone. If you stay on the path, do your college applications through the guidance office and your job hunting at the placement office, the future is not your fault. That’s the refrain we hear often from frustrated job seekers, frustrated workers with stuck careers, and frustrated students in too much debt. ‘I did what they told me to do and now I’m stuck and it’s not my fault.’ What they’ve exchanged for that deniability is their dreams, their chance for greatness. To go off the path is to claim responsibility for what happens next.
- Seth Godin
That’s just $30 for two tickets. Racing is a family sport and we strive to make our tickets affordable for any families that want to come watch a race.
- Ed Clark
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
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.
- Malcolm Forbes
You can market your ass off, but if your product sucks, you’re dead.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.
- Dale Carnegie
We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time
- Sara Blakely
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
- Seth Godin
One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
- Rupert Murdoch
You can’t build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.
- Rupert Murdoch
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
- P.T. Barnum
In business, just the opposite is often true; silence means dissent. Have you ever been in a meeting where you sense there is obvious disagreement, but the disagreement never really gets put on the table? This what I call the Slow No’s.
- David Novak
The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.
- Winston Churchill
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
- Dale Carnegie
A definite pessimist believes the future can be known, but since it will be bleak, he must prepare for it. Perhaps surprisingly, China is probably the most definitely pessimistic place in the world today.
- Peter Thiel
I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.
- Bill Gates
Civilization is meant to be easy…
- Jack Dorsey
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
- Elon Musk
Profit and cash flow are not the same thing.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Success (a win) doesn’t make you, and failure (a loss) doesn’t make you.
- Zig Ziglar
I think there’s plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That’s just not the kind of blog I’m writing, and I’m not the kind of blogger that could do that.
- Seth Godin
An employer has no business with a man’s personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance, and nothing else. Any attempt by an employer to go beyond this is usurpation. It is an immoral as well as illegal intrusion of privacy.
- Peter Drucker
We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
- Winston Churchill
Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
- George Soros
If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are … a different game you should play.
- Yoda
We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox… and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.
- Rupert Murdoch
I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.
- Donald Trump
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
- Thomas Edison
Disruptive technology should be framed as a marketing challenge, not a technological one.
- Clayton M. Christensen
People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.
- Bill Gates
I move onward, the only direction Can’t be scared to fail in search of perfection.
- Jay-Z
When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
- Walt Disney
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- Theodore Roosevelt
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
- Bruce Lee
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win — essential to success.
- Napoleon Hill
Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.
- Yoda
On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We’ve got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers – and there could be a lot of them – will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.
- Howard Schultz
In absorbing companies, Rockefeller was secretive and asked them to continue operating under their original names and not divulge their Standard Oil Ownership. They were instructed to retain their original stationary, keep secret accounts, and not allude on paper to their Cleveland connection.
- Ron Chernow
I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.
- Jack Ma
All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory’ was the motto of the King’s Guard in ancient Greece.
- Dale Carnegie
Checklists seem able to defend anyone, even the experienced, against failure in many more tasks than we realized.
- Atul Gawande
Here’s a statistician joke for your next hot date: Person A: What happens when Bill Gates walks into a bar of 55 people? Person B: I don’t know. What? Person A: The average net worth jumps to more than a billion dollars!
- Timothy Ferriss
Success is doing what you want, where you want, when you want, with whom you want and as much as you want.
- Tony Robbins
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
- Timothy Ferriss
One who knows God is going to bless them, despite the fact that they have no idea how to actually raise capital or solve a real problem that people have in exchange for monetary compensation. They love the idea of business ownership, yet fear working, as though doing any actual work or rendering any tangible service or product might ruin their lives on this planet and for eternity.
- Clay Clark
Don’t count the things you do. Do the things that count.
- Zig Ziglar
I don’t want to hear the specials. If they’re so special, put ’em on the menu.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man’s character.
- Thomas Edison
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Enforce functional training by withholding new employee requisitions. As Andy Grove writes, there are only two ways for a manager to improve the output of an employee: motivation and training. Therefore, training should be the most basic requirement for all managers in your organization. An effective way to enforce this requirement is by withholding new employee requisitions from managers until they’ve developed a training program for the TBH, “To Be Hired.”
- Ben Horowitz
We are always listening to ideas presented by our customers and in an effort to keep up with their demands, we are adding those quality improvements to Atlanta Motor Speedway. The changes we have planned are a direct result of fan input and are aimed at giving our fans options they currently don’t have.
- Ed Clark
Most of a tech company’s value will come at least 10 to 15 years in the future.
- Peter Thiel
A remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.
- Winston Churchill
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
- Winston Churchill
When I finally retire, I just want to go away so no one has to listen to me.
- Steve Martin
Hay que evitar siempre el ángulo agudo.
- Dale Carnegie
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
- Zig Ziglar
Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
- Winston Churchill
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
- Dale Carnegie
greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.
- James C. Collins
Entrepreneurs must protect themselves and the venture at all times by documenting your agreements.
- Jack Nadel
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
We have a go-to-hell fund. In other words, we have accumulated enough wealth to live without working for ten or more years. Thus, those of us with a net worth of $1.6 million could live comfortably for more than twelve years. Actually, we could live longer than that, since we save at least 15 percent of our earned income.
- Thomas J Stanley
I’m a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.
- Richard Branson
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
- Richard Branson
You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
- Bill Gates
