If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
- Seth Godin
Notable Quotables
We will as ever continue to pursue growth opportunities that will further enhance our ability to capitalize on the investment opportunities and to face the challenges ahead.
- Cheng Yu-tung
If you can’t make 40% on your money in Russia, you’re a fool.
- Simon Reuben
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
- Reid Hoffman
Nothing is as powerful as a changed mind,
- T.D Jakes
The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
- Russell Simmons
In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.
- Ben Horowitz
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.
- Seth Godin
What I know for sure is that if you want success, you can’t make success your goal. The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead work toward being significant, and the success will naturally follow.”
- Oprah Winfrey
I didn’t think I would come to this conclusion — but eventually I came to the conclusion that more information is better, even if it is not as full as we would like to see.
- Sergey Brin
When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.
- Mark Zuckerberg
The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.
- John C. Maxwell
Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.
- Yoda
I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship, nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
- John D. Rockefeller
When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.
- Larry Ellison
We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.
- Howard Schultz
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
- Warren Buffett
When I feel particularly tired at the end of the day, or when irritability proves that my nerves are tired, I know beyond question that it has been an inefficient day both as to quantity and quality.
- Dale Carnegie
hombre que conozco es superior a mí en algún sentido. En ese sentido, aprendo de él.
- Dale Carnegie
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
- Walt Disney
Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air.
- Herb Kelleher
For people to be fully committed, they should be properly compensated. Whenever an entrepreneur asks me to invest in his company, I ask him how much he intends to pay himself. A company does better the less it pays the CEO—that’s one of the single clearest patterns I’ve noticed from investing in hundreds of startups. In no case should a CEO of an early-stage, venture-backed startup receive more than $150,000 per year in salary.
- Peter Thiel
Your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room.
- Jeff Bezos
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
This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
- Bill Gates
In the game of life, money is just how we keep score.
- Clay Clark
Possession of Power That Was Not Acquired Through Self Effort.
- Napoleon Hill
I think people will walk into the Starbucks store and overnight recognize the significant difference between what Starbucks represents day-in and day-out and all the other coffee companies that have been serving coffee in India for so many years.
- Howard Schultz
If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.
- Muhammad Ali
My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.
- Jerry Seinfeld
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
Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
- Steve Jobs
Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
- James C. Collins
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
- Napoleon Hill
I believe that continued strong consumer acceptance of our products at retail and the strengthening of our organization will enable us to manage through the challenges in our U. S. footwear business and lay the foundation for another round of growth.
- Phil Knight
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
- Winston Churchill
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
- Zig Ziglar
I was raised with ‘Laurel and Hardy’ and ‘I Love Lucy’ and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it’s the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you’re performing in your bedroom for yourself.
- Steve Martin
By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.
- Harvey Mackay
You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It’s starting to really become a cool thing for young people.
- Russell Simmons
Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
- Sara Blakely
Two metrics set the limits for effective distribution. The total net profit that you earn on average over the course of your relationship with a customer (Customer Lifetime Value, or CLV) must exceed the amount you spend on average to acquire a new customer (Customer Acquisition Cost, or CAC). In general, the higher the price of your product, the more you have to spend to make a sale—and the more it makes sense to spend it.
- Peter Thiel
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
- Peter Drucker
The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
- Bill Gates
A definite person determines the one best thing to do and then does it. Instead of working tirelessly to make herself indistinguishable, she strives to be great at something substantive—to be a monopoly of one.
- Peter Thiel
We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
- John D. Rockefeller
In some ways, running a successful business is a bit like coaching a football team. The fundamentals of football are blocking and tackling. The fundamentals of a business are it’s governing policies andprocesses. To carry out the metaphor, touchdowns are profits. The best business idea in the world cannot survive bad execution. So when you sit down to develop your workflow, internal policies, and business structure, be merciless, probe for weaknesses and assume that the worst will happen. – Jack Nadel (Author&Entrepreneur)
- Jack Nadel
Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats.
- Jim Collins
I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.
- Azim Premji
Selling and delivering a product is at least as important as the product itself.
- Peter Thiel
Economic cycles are just like riding on a Ferris wheel.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple—many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.
- Timothy Ferriss
Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.
- Elon Musk
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
- Peter Drucker
Doing the wrong thing daily, compounds over time.
- John C. Maxwell
Clear your mind must be, if you are to find the villains behind this plot.
- Yoda
Read the Bible, it is your roadmap through life.
- George Foreman
Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
- Ray Kroc
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- James C. Collins
Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
- Ray Dalio
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
- Stephen R. Covey
Refuse to accept partial completeness.
- Timothy Ferriss
The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you’ve ever been able to create before.
- Seth Godin
A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
- John C. Maxwell
Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.
- Zig Ziglar
This is just going to be a great event and we have an outstanding speaker.
- Jack Taylor
You should know now that a man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, not by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it.
- Carlos Castaneda
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
- Michael Bloomberg
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
- Warren Buffett
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who’s going to build.
- Larry Ellison
A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.
- Winston Churchill
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- Henry Ford
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
- Ben Horowitz
I’d always try to remind managers at every level that they had to share my passion for developing people.
- Jack Welch
I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.
- Joel Olsteen
I love the presentation from the more flamboyant guy, who excitedly presents his plans.
- Jack Welch
When you own your choices, you own their consequences.
- Jack Welch
Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.
- Seth Godin
And if I were the president, I’d go out there and I’d emphasize the things I have done, and I’d say, ‘Some things haven’t worked, and I’m sorry about that, but I keep trying.’ And I’m – and I think the president is a very viable candidate, and you’re going to have a real horse race here no matter who the Republican nominee is.
- Michael Bloomberg
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
Mitt – what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he’s got a great view on China and how they’re trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
- Donald Trump
The cost of praising someone is nil – but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.
- Harvey Mackay
Intemperance.
- Napoleon Hill
People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
- Azim Premji
Call it the emergence of a “world’s bank” – a system built by and for the people, delivering credit in America and across the globe in a radically decentralized, highly scalable, and crucially equitable way. The World Bank funds institutions.The world’s bank funds people.
- Reid Hoffman
What you need to keep most in the U.S. is the entrepreneurial spirit.
- Alexei Mordashov
I am an expert in Higher Level Math. You + God= Enough
- Zig Ziglar
If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can’t be wasteful. You can’t squander things, or you jeopardize other people.
- Stephen Wynn
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
- Ray Dalio
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino
Lo que una persona diga de ti no define quién eres. Su opinión de ti no determina tu dignidad propia. Deja que eso te resbale como si fuera agua sobre el plumaje de un pato. Esa persona tiene todo el derecho a tener una opinión, y tú tienes todo el derecho a pasarla por alto.
- Joel Olsteen
You think Yoda stops teaching, just because his student does not want to hear? A teacher Yoda is. Yoda teaches like drunkards drink, like killers kill.
- Yoda
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world
- George Washington Carver
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody’s got to pay for them so they’re a necessary evil.
- Michael Bloomberg
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
There’s no mystery in business success. If you do each day’s task successfully and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.
- John D. Rockefeller
The proposed abolishment of estate duty by the Hong Kong Government will contribute to establish Hong Kong as a regional financial centre as well as an asset management hub.
- Lee Shau Kee
