There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.
- Warren Buffett
Notable Quotables
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
- Napoleon Hill
Some of the things I see around town are just disgusting.
- Jack Taylor
You’re asking somebody who has a wife and is really happily married, ‘So, what’s your next wife going to be like?’ And I’m like, ‘What?
- Travis Kalanick
The global economy has experienced considerable slowdown in recent times. However there has been one notable exception: China.
- Cheng Yu-tung
I move onward, the only direction Can’t be scared to fail in search of perfection.
- Jay-Z
Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.
- Zig Ziglar
Real entrepreneurs have what I call the three Ps (and, trust me, none of them stands for ‘permission’). Real entrepreneurs have a ‘passion’ for what they’re doing, a ‘problem’ that needs to be solved, and a ‘purpose’ that drives them forward.
- Michael Dell
To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business.
- Harvey Mackay
Companies such as Echelon are poised to help drive this change with Cisco and extend the power of the Internet from business to the home.
- John Chambers
Foreign politicians don’t have resources – or limited resources. It’s useless dealing with them.
- Wang Jianlin
It is not enough that we do our best, sometimes we must do what is required.
- Winston Churchill
Africa is on the rise.
- Bill Gates
Stealing Coach Wooden’s sets of three, I have come up with a formula for success no matter what kind of business you happen to be in: 1) Make sure you have the right people around you; 2) Have fun and drive results by recognizing the achievements of others; and 3) Be a passionate learner, and pass on what you know to others. Not only will this make you a success in business, but it will make you a success in life.
- David Novak
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
- Thomas Edison
In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.
- Aliko Dangote
Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don’t think over time that’s a good way to go. I’m a huge believe in digital currency… but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I’m not involved in Bitcoin.”-Bill Gates, Entrepreneur and founder of Microsoft
- Bill Gates
Sure, ideas that spread, win, but ideas that don’t get spoken always fail.
- Seth Godin
China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.
- Wang Jianlin
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
- Andrew Carnegie
We had been kicked out of one bank… The second, it was touch and go…
- Phil Knight
The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets.
- Howard Schultz
Assetts put money in your pocket. Liabilities take money out of your pocket.
- Robert Kiyosaki
You’ll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
- Winston Churchill
A company needs lots of smart, super-engaged employees who can identify its particular weaknesses and help it improve them.
- Ben Horowitz
There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
- Timothy Ferriss
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier.
- Bill Gates
No genuine leader is ever too busy to do anything which may be required of him in his capacity as leader. When a man, whether he is a leader of followers, admits he is too busy to change his plans, or to give attention to any emergency, he admits his inefficiency. The successful leader must be the master of all details connected with his position.
- Napoleon Hill
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
- Winston Churchill
People in general, and knowledge workers in particular, grow according to the demands they make on themselves. They grow according to what they consider to be achievement and attainment. If they demand little of themselves, they will remain stunted. If they demand a good deal of themselves, they will grow to giant stature—without any more effort than is expended by the nonachievers.
- Peter Drucker
If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you’ve got to let it go.
- Sara Blakely
I’m just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.
- Ray Dalio
Many of the people that you lay off will have closer relationships with the people who stay than you do, so treat them with an appropriate level of respect.
- Ben Horowitz
[On American running shoes] They cost five bucks and gave you blood blisters after five miles. Adidas was taking advantage. And at $30 a pair, Adidas was making a killing.
- Phil Knight
I believe that greatest things happen only when you give others the credit. That’s the law of EMPOWERMENT in action.
- Napoleon Hill
The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.
- John C. Maxwell
Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.
- Joel Olsteen
Happiness does not depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
My personal opinion is that I’m in the media too much. I’m not a politician, I’m a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
- Viktor Vekselberg
It’s absolutely a necessary and inevitable evolution in retailing (of Wal-Mart putting small stores out of business), as inevitable as the replacement of the buggy by the car, and the dissappearance of the buggy whip makers. The small stores (and DJs) were destined to dissappear, at least in the numbers they once existed., because the whole thing is driven by customers, who are free to choose where to shop.
- Sam Walton
There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
- Andrew Carnegie
The Group is well positioned to meet the challenges ahead and will as ever continue to pursue higher growth.
- Cheng Yu-tung
If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you’ll never end up with a nag.
- Zig Ziglar
Resposibility is the price of greatness.
- Winston Churchill
What is the one sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!
- Larry Page
Money has always been in politics. And I’m not sure you’d want money to be completely out of politics.
- Bill Gates
Change before you have to.
- Jack Welch
Ahhh! Yoda’s little friend you seek!
- Yoda
Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.
- Reed Hastings
I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy.
- Michael Gerber
We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
- Bill Gates
The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.
- Peter Drucker
It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it.
- Herb Kelleher
My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.
- Jack Ma
Everybody understands the market in this area is consolidating.
- John Chambers
A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation, a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity, but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.
- Winston Churchill
We are consolidating our position as one of the leading technology companies in the automotive industry. Research and development expenditure of another 6 percent of our sales or around €2.1 billion is fueling our capacity for innovation. There are very few companies in the industry that are able to operate in these dimensions.
- Elmar Degenhart
If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
- Bill Gates
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
- Henry Ford
The most important rule of raising money privately: Look for a market of one. You only need one investor to say yes, so it’s best to ignore the other thirty who say “no.”
- Ben Horowitz
It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
- Jack Welch
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
All of us profit from being corrected – if we’re corrected in a positive way.
- Sam Walton
The screwball. 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 difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
- Warren Buffett
You don’t inherit cancer, you actually get it.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
E – Edge, ability to make tough yes and no decisions
- Jack Welch
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
- Seth Godin
High expectations are the key to everything.
- Sam Walton
If I go public, I’ll stick to it.
- David Novak
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
Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
- Bill Gates
If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.
- Zig Ziglar
Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work….
- Thomas Edison
This is Day 1 for the Internet and, if we execute well, for Amazon.com. Today, online commerce saves customers money and precious time. Tomorrow, through personalization, online commerce will accelerate the very process of discovery. Amazon.com uses the Internet to create real value for its customers and, by doing so, hopes to create an enduring franchise, even in established and large markets.
- Jeff Bezos
Thinking (of how to improve your life and business) is the hardest thing there is. That is why so few people engage in it.
- Henry Ford
We were comfortable with first-quarter results.
- John Chambers
One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn’t elect those people. Isn’t it supposed to be different? Aren’t we supposed to like the people that we elected?
- Bill Gates
I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
- Warren Buffett
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.
- Timothy Ferriss
I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.
- Ray Dalio
At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
- Seth Godin
First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund.
- Peter Thiel
What we want to watch is whether this is a short-term bump or not.
- John Chambers
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Early must I rise. Leave now you must!
- Yoda
Actresses are kind of a little crazy.
- Russell Simmons
I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.
- Steve Wozniak
Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.
- Joel Olsteen
You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
- Tadashi Yanai
Establish good internal controls over the handling of cash. The people who record the cash receipts on the bank deposits must be different from those who post it to the accounts receivable and general ledger.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
- Sam Walton
Worry is interest paid before it’s due.
- Zig Ziglar
If you believe as I do that you were born to win, you’re going to have to find your fears and start facing them.
- Zig Ziglar
When sales people don’t know what to do, they talk. The ordinary salesperson vomits the presentation onto the Buyer’s desktop.
- Jerry Vass
I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.
- Bill Gates
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
There are abundant business opportunities to bring about the recovery of the local economy.
- Lee Shau Kee
