Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
Notable Quotables
Wal-Mart’s leaders had obviously made a point of educating and informing everyone at all levels about all aspects of the company, and that shows a real respect for their people.
- David Novak
Doubts [can] be swept away only by deeds.
- Winston Churchill
Use what you have to run toward your best – that’s how I now live my life.
- Oprah Winfrey
Effective people know when to stop assessing and make a tough call, even without total information. Little is worse than a manager who can’t cut bait.
- Jack Welch
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
- Peter Drucker
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
- Jack Welch
Even though I’m a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I’m looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
I love comedy. That’s what got me into the arts. I don’t even know how to categorize myself anymore.
- Steve Martin
Best wine if you’re stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
- Elon Musk
You don’t make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you’re-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don’t know what’s going to happen.
- Michael Bloomberg
[On Twitter] We believe that fundamentally we are building a utility.
- Jack Dorsey
With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can’t type. They can’t create documents.
- Bill Gates
The perfect target market for a startup is a small group of particular people concentrated together and served by few or no competitors. Any big market is a bad choice, and a big market already served by competing companies is even worse. This is why it’s always a red flag when entrepreneurs talk about getting 1% of a $100 billion market. In practice, a large market will either lack a good starting point or it will be open to competition, so it’s hard to ever reach that 1%. And even if you do succeed in gaining a small foothold, you’ll have to be satisfied with keeping the lights on: cutthroat competition means your profits will be zero.
- Peter Thiel
CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It’s not what they say. It’s what they highlight.
- Rupert Murdoch
Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours.
- Zig Ziglar
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
- Roger Staubach
It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.
- Dale Carnegie
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
- Peter Drucker
Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.
- George Lucas
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
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Don’t say anything you can’t prove.
- Jerry Vass
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
- Harvey Mackay
Decide you must, how to serve them best. If you leave now, help them you could; but you would destroy all for which they have fought, and suffered.
- Yoda
I’m not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.
- Steve Ballmer
Surely, we all can look back and see things in our lives that we wish we would have done differently. But the Bible says, Make the most of each day.”4 Yesterday is gone; tomorrow may not come. You must live for today. Start right where you are. You can’t do anything about what’s gone, but you can do a great deal about what remains.
- Joel Olsteen
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge. If the employees fundamentally trust the CEO, then communication will be vastly more efficient than if they don’t.
- Ben Horowitz
Think about how Google talks about its business. It certainly doesn’t claim to be a monopoly.
- Peter Thiel
The order for the seats amounted to $90,000. Who do you suppose got the order—James Adamson or one of his competitors? From the time of this story until Mr. Eastman’s death.
- Dale Carnegie
Stop whining, start hustling.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter Drucker
If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
- Joel Olsteen
The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.
- John C. Maxwell
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
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
Success is…knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.
- John C. Maxwell
The most successful companies make the core progression—to first dominate a specific niche and then scale to adjacent markets—a part of their founding narrative.
- Peter Thiel
We are each responsible for our own life – no other person is or even can be.
- Oprah Winfrey
The computer is a moron.
- Peter Drucker
Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE’s not striving for the kind of innovation it’s capable of.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
- Henry Ford
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, or the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
Good action today will produce good living tomorrow.
- Zig Ziglar
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
- Winston Churchill
I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it’s coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.
- Howard Schultz
We are in the process of creating a group that has a broader business mix, better quality income streams and a stronger balance sheet. In doing so, our risk profile is spread out and we can better explore the growth potential across our five core businesses – property, hotels, infrastructure, services and telecommunications.
- Cheng Yu-tung
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives’ decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
- Peter Drucker
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
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
- Warren Buffett
PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan.
- Yoda
The Real ReasonNew College Grads Can’t Get Hired shocked many when it reported, The Workforce Solutions Group at St. Louis Community College finds that more than 60% of employers say applicants lack communication and interpersonal skills
- Martha C. White
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
- Oprah Winfrey
Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.
- Richard Branson
Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart.
- Joel Olsteen
Quejarse es estúpido. Actúa u olvídalo.
- Stefan Sagmeister
When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.
- Winston Churchill
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Always remember that nothing kills great ideas more than people with small ideas and limited imaginations.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
- George Soros
You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
- Jeff Bezos
Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.
- Winston Churchill
Every single important thing we do is something we didn’t use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
- Seth Godin
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake … Religion is all bunk.
- Thomas Edison
I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
The problem with common sense is that it’s not really that common. – David Novak CEO of Yum! Brands
- David Novak
My role has been to pick good people and give them the maximum authority and responsibility.
- Sam Walton
I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don’t believe in climate change – they think oil will last forever.
- Elon Musk
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 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
The hazards of imitative competition may partially explain why individuals with an Asperger’s-like social ineptitude seem to be at an advantage in Silicon Valley today.
- Peter Thiel
Put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
- Andrew Carnegie
You can’t be in neutral and hope to reach your full potential.
- Joel Olsteen
I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.
- Ben Horowitz
We should remember it wasn’t so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.
- Michael Bloomberg
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
- Dale Carnegie
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business.
- Dale Carnegie
Our economy now rewards artists far more than any other economy in history ever has.
- Seth Godin
I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
- Seth Godin
If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?
- Timothy Ferriss
Getting over the war was biggest adversity I have ever faced.
- Jack Nadel
Dig your well before you’re thirsty.
- Seth Godin
Who you are, is who you attract.
- John Maxwell
The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.
- Joel Olsteen
If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.
- Steve Jobs
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.
- Warren Buffett
My children – in many dimensions they’re as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I’ve got my kids brainwashed: You don’t use Google, and you don’t use an iPod.
- Steve Ballmer
Lack of Persistence.
- Napoleon Hill
But entrepreneurs should take cultures of extreme dedication seriously.
- Peter Thiel
Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.
- John C. Maxwell
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
- Thomas Edison
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
- Bill Gates
You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.
- Harry Truman
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
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
- Napoleon Hill
