I guess the worst moment I ever had in business was the fear that Southwest Airlines wouldn’t get off the ground.
- Herb Kelleher
Notable Quotables
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting
- Thomas Jefferson
I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.
- Bill Gates
There’s plenty of room at the top but not enough room to sit down.
- Zig Ziglar
I can’t really comment on rumors.
- Larry Page
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
- Walt Disney
Takings were down by 25 per cent as a result of the security scares following the London bombings.
- Michael Ward
The goal is to be able to live your life the way Michael Jordan played basketball, or Marvin Gaye sang a song. To be able to feel the way you feel when you laugh at a joke, but to feel that way all the time.
- Russell Simmons
The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That’s the question to be worried about.
- Ray Dalio
Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.
- Joel Olsteen
I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.
- Steve Martin
The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
- Bill Gates
When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.
- Zig Ziglar
Puffery makes you look weak and not very bright. Representation makes you look strong and smart.
- Jerry Vass
I think my greatest moment in business was when the first Southwest airplane arrived after four years of litigation, and I walked up to it and I kissed that baby on the lips and I cried.
- Herb Kelleher
The Secret Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.
- Joel Olsteen
If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.
- Larry Page
Anyone who prefers owning a part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company’s value in the future. Equity can’t create perfect incentives, but it’s the best way for a founder to keep everyone in the company broadly aligned.
- Peter Thiel
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
- Bill Cosby
We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.
- Dale Carnegie
I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.
- Bill Gates
If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.
- Ben Horowitz
Too often the investment in people stops there.
- Ben Horowitz
The warrior mentality, the very fight to survive, is truly what created our culture.
- Herb Kelleher
Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
We are fastidious investors. On average, we investnearly 20 percent of our household realized income each year. Most of us invest at least 15 percent. Seventy-nine percent of us have at least one account with a brokerage company. But we make our own investment decisions.
- Thomas J Stanley
Apart from banking facilities of a relatively small proportion which were raised in Renminbi, the majority of the Group’s funding facilities are obtained in Hong Kong Dollars and the Group’s exposure to foreign exchange fluctuation riks is therefore extremely small.
- Lee Shau Kee
You’re not really free until you’re free from trying to please everybody.
- Joel Olsteen
Rich dad said to Mike and me, I am so rich because I’ve made more financial mistakes than most people. Each time I made a mistake, I learned something new. In the business world, that something new is often called experience.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.
- Sergey Brin
Blackjack is very scientific. There’s always a right answer and a wrong answer. Do you take a card, increase your bet, bet big or bet small. There’s absolutely a right and wrong answer.
- Charles Ergen
In the real world outside economic theory, every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.
- Peter Thiel
Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
[In February 2011] We’ve not done a lot of marketing whatsoever. A lot of it has just been word of mouth.
- Jack Dorsey
God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.
- Joel Olsteen
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.
- Elon Musk
Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It’s more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.
- Bill Gates
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
- Thomas Edison
A brand is something that has a clear-cut identity among consumers, which a company creates by sending out a clear, consistent message over a period of years until it achieves a critical mass of marketing.
- Phil Knight
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.
- Joel Olsteen
Present my story and the difficulties that I have faced. As an entrepreneur, a CEO.
- Ben Horowitz
Humor can often be effective and with this style, it’s emphasized. Appeal to the journalist’s heightened sense of the unusual. Stunts, sideshows, ancillary themes are put to work here.
- Michael Levine
The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.
- Seth Godin
If you believe in quality, you can’t just tell everybody We believe in quality! You’ve got to pay bonuses based on quality. You’ve got to let everyone in the organization know that they are being judged on quality.
- Jack Welch
Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] … by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks … to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.
- Winston Churchill
So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.
- Dale Carnegie
Our household’s total annual realized (taxable) income is $131,000 (median, or 50th percentile), while our average income is $247,000. Note that those of us who have incomes in the $500,000 to $999,999 category (8 percent) and the $1 million or more category (5 percent) skew the average upward.
- Thomas J Stanley
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
- Richard Branson
Measuring and establishing facts at every step of the process. Without facts, assumptions and misperceptions will defeat whatever reason and good judgment can be brought to effort
- Service Profit Chain
In the middle of that process four power plants just tripped off all at once in unison.
- Ed Clark
The things you’re not doing are the things you should actually be focused on.
- Ben Horowitz
No individual may have great power without availing himself of the Master Mind.
- Napoleon Hill
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
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
- Warren Buffett
You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
- Jeff Bezos
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He’s always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
- Steve Wozniak
Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
- Richard Branson
I watch mostly independent films.
- Reed Hastings
How can we walk away from requirements that we know to be true to pursue something that we think will help?” It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
- Ben Horowitz
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short not easy. That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort. If it’s not, dream bigger.
- Seth Godin
There is nothing either good or bad.
- William Shakespeare
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother’s keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .
- Thomas Edison
We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.
- Lakshmi Mittal
Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it’s about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it’s less than one ton. It’s an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
- Bill Gates
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution. It just needs clarity.
- Ben Horowitz
It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
- Ronald Reagan
In general, the apparel industry isn’t about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it’s about chasing trends.
- Tadashi Yanai
If you cannot save money, then the seeds of greatness are not in you.
- Brian Tracy
I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus’ message was simple.
- Joel Olsteen
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
- Oprah Winfrey
Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.
- Reid Hoffman
Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
- John C. Maxwell
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
I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
- Joel Olsteen
For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.”
- John C. Maxwell
The first complaint we hear from everyone is: ‘Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother’s eating for lunch?’ But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled – you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
- Jack Dorsey
The successful leader must plan his work, and work his plan. A leader who moves by guesswork, without practical, definite plans, is comparable to a ship without a rudder. Sooner or later he will land on the rocks.
- Andrew Carnegie
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
- Jeff Bezos
If you had to boil down the Wal-Mart system to one single idea, it would porbably be communication, because it is one of the real keys to our success…Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
- Sam Walton
We feel like right now, computers are still pretty bad. You’re just messing around. You’re scrolling on your touchscreen phone, and trying to find stuff. You’re in a car. It’s bouncy, and you can’t– it doesn’t really work. I think the actual amount of knowledge you get out of your computer versus the amount of time you spend with it is still pretty bad. So I think our job is to solve that, and most of the things we’re doing make sense in that context.
- Larry Page
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
- Steve Jobs
With communication technology in general, there’s a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world’s entire population using one communication technology, that’s a big deal. It’s beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it’s a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.
- Ben Horowitz
Every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside.
- Peter Thiel
I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.
- Jerry Seinfeld
You can market your ass off, but if your product sucks, you’re dead.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
There is no shoe school, so where do you recruit people for a company that develops and markets running shoes? The running track… We and the consumer were one and the same.
- Phil Knight
One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded.
- Ben Horowitz
Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.
- Russell Simmons
The bottom line is that you need to do follow-up or you will be mediocre.
- Chet Holmes
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
- Winston Churchill
Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.
- Sergey Brin
Our approach as a Group is based on strong economic, social and environmental principles. We strive to create high quality, visually stimulating innovative new homes and commercial developments that enhance, as well as integrate with, their surrounding natural and built environments.
- Lee Shau Kee
At an end your rule is, and not short enought it was!
- Yoda
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
the only way to influence people is to talk in terms of what the other person wants.
- Dale Carnegie
Media companies focused on things like creating great stories whereas technology companies focused on creating a better way of doing things. We began to think about new ideas and about forming a new company.
- Ben Horowitz
I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I’ve tried to really stress that.
- Larry Page
Many people fail to make a favourable impression because they don’t listen attentively.
- Isaac F. Marcosson
