A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
- Henry Ford
Notable Quotables
Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Urm. Put a shield on my saber I must.
- Yoda
I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.
- Jeff Bezos
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.
- Bill Gates
Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure – the law firms, the real estate, all that – that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.
- Elon Musk
Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.
- Peter Thiel
In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
- Reed Hastings
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
Count your blessings—not your troubles!
- Dale Carnegie
Profit and growth are stimulated primarily by customer loyalty. Loyalty is a direct result of customer satisfaction. Satisfaction is largely influenced by the value of services provided to customers. Value is created by satisfied, loyal, and productive employees.
- Putting the Service-Profit Chain To Work - Ja
There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.
- Dale Carnegie
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
- Walt Disney
From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.
- Elon Musk
Do not look like you are playing the fiddle while Rome is burning….stay focussed – Paraphrased from
- David Novak
Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.
- Bill Gates
My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
- Jack Ma
The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
- George Soros
In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
- Sid Caesar
If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
- Jeff Bezos
Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
- George Soros
The reason that I have Global Grind is to communicate ideas to people who might otherwise not be listening.
- Russell Simmons
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits.
- Winston Churchill
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. 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
Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.
- Joel Olsteen
I was hooked and I would make reward and recognition one of my primary focuses as a leader
- David Novak
Money isn’t everything , but it’s right up there with oxygen.
- Zig Ziglar
On engagement, we’re already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They’re more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.
- Mark Zuckerberg
I will not allow yesterday’s success to lull me into today’s complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
- Og Mandino
Look, winning and losing can’t be quantified. They are states of mind, and losing happens only when you give up. Seen that way, then, the world can be filled with winners, and there is room for them all.
- Jack Welch
In the U.S. there are many people willing to work on $9 per hour, which is causing Tasmania to lose its famous apple industry and Australia to import more and more of its fruit and food from lower cost countries. In fact, all over Australia there are warning signs of us killing or restricting our own industries.
- Gina Rinehart
What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.
- Warren Buffett
They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive,
- Jack Welch
Here’s a quote from ultramarathoner Dick Collins: Decide before the race the conditions that will cause you to stop and drop out. You don’t want to be out there saying, “Well gee, my leg hurts, I’m a little dehydrated, I’m sleepy, I’m tired, and it’s cold and windy.” And talk yourself into quitting. If you are making a decision based on how you feel at that moment, you will probably make the wrong decision.
- Seth Godin
The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
- Bill Gates
Obviously I knew it was a great opportunity but I wasn’t expecting something as big as right now, what we see in Macau.
- Lui Che Woo
Self-control – 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
I have taken six companies public, and three of those are Fortune 1000 companies, but the key to my success has been my ability to sell other people on my dreams.
- Wayne Huizenga
Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily.
- Zig Ziglar
We’re taking these steps because of the continuing slowdown in the U.S. economy and initial signs of a slowdown expanding to other parts of the world.
- John Chambers
I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.
- Winston Churchill
I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.
- Joel Olsteen
I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
This office is smaller than the last one I had. I’m not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.
- Stephen Wynn
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
- Winston Churchill
The U.S. is talking about keeping interest rates near zero.
- Lee Shau Kee
We sold ‘Seinfeld’ all over the world but it was a very specific kind of show. In some countries it went down really well, in others they hated it.
- Jerry Seinfeld
The spread of online information isn’t just good for charities. It’s also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.
- Bill Gates
I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
- Russell Simmons
If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it’s that I don’t understand future mainstream Internet users’ habits.
- Ma Huateng
The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
- Napoleon Hill
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.
- Jeff Bezos
We will go forward… we will never go back.
- Michael Bloomberg
There is never a bad time to start a business – unless you want to start a mediocre one.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Stop talking and start doing
- Walt Disney
To be sure, real differences of opinion existed between the groups. Compared to pro-life participants, pro-choice participants had more favorable personal attitudes toward the pro-choice issues and less favorable attitudes toward the pro-life issues, and vice versa.
- John Chambers
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
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
Hong Kong still offers the best value.
- Lee Shau Kee
When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?
- Ray Kroc
People are poor judges of importance and inflate minutiae to fill time and feel important.
- Timothy Ferriss
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
- John C. Maxwell
Make youself necessary to someone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake … Religion is all bunk.
- Thomas Edison
If somebody’s going on your board, and you’re going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before.
- Ben Horowitz
It is very important to grasp that Level 5 leadership is not just about humility and modesty. It is equally about ferocious resolve, an almost stoic determination to do whatever needs to be done to make the company great.
- James C. Collins
Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.
- Dale Carnegie
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
- Bill Gates
I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
- Richard Branson
The millionaires and billionaires who chose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young. This secret needs to be spread widely.
- Gina Rinehart
Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
- John C. Maxwell
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
- Henry Ford
You don’t inherit cancer, you actually get it.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
- Thomas Edison
Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
- Vagit Alekperov
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
- Winston Churchill
Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.
- Mark Zuckerberg
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill
Business Coach Quotes: A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs
- Seth Godin
(In reference to one of his first advertising sales mentors Howard Davis)… He was 6 foot 4 with silver hair…the quintessential advertising guy. He had a glass topped desk in his office because, as he put it, he like to be able to look down and see his Guccis while he worked. Howard taught me to get things done. He was very smart but he was also an animal. He exuded power and he could be very intimidating, and he knew how to use his power to get results while still managing to be a good guy. Howard’s personal style was very different from my own, but what he did teach me was how to create a sense of urgency, how to motivate performance by getting everyone’s heart pounding.
- David Novak
You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
- Seth Godin
I’ve found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that’s where many people cultivate inspiration.
- Herb Kelleher
We are focusing on the increasing need for mobility and growing demand from our industrial customers. The production volume for vehicles weighing up to six tons is expected to rise to between 100 million and 105 million vehicles. Furthermore, installation of electronics and software will continue to grow substantially, driven by growing demands from end-users and increasingly strict legal requirements for safety and energy consumption. It is partly on this basis that we are aiming for profitable sales of over €50 billion in 2020.
- Elmar Degenhart
People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they’re not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we’ve fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter.
- Seth Godin
Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
- Theodore Roosevelt
You can’t manage what you can’t measure.
- W. Clement Stone
-It is possible to vastly compress most learning. In a surprising number of cases, it is possible to do something in 1-10 months that is assumed to take 1-10 years.-The more you compress things, the more physical limiters become a bottleneck. All learning is physically limited. The brain is dependent on finite quantities of neurotransmitters, memories require REM and non-REM (NREM) sleep for consolidation, etc. The learning graph is not unlike the stress-recovery-hyperadaptation curves of weight training.-The more extreme your ambition, just as in sports, the more you need performance enhancement via unusual schedules, diet, drugs, etc.-Most important: due to the bipolar nature of the learning process, you can forecast setbacks. If you don’t, you increase the likelihood of losing morale and quitting before the inflection point.
- Timothy Ferriss
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
- Timothy Ferriss
I want to own the New York Jets, that’s what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.
- Dale Carnegie
We’re totally legal, like totally legal, and the government is telling us to shut down. And you can either do what they say or you can fight for what you believe.
- Travis Kalanick
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
- John D. Rockefeller
We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.
- Michael Bloomberg
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent….
- Thomas Edison
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
- Peter Drucker
Jim Collins, in his bestselling book Good to Great, demonstrates through massive research and comprehensive analysis that when it comes to CEO succession, internal candidates dramatically outperform external candidates. The core reason is knowledge. Knowledge of technology, prior decisions, culture, personnel, and more tends to be far more difficult to acquire than the skills required to manage a larger organization.
- Ben Horowitz
If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.
- Jerry Seinfeld
