If you have a strong informed opinion, don’t keep it to yourself. Try to help people and make the world a better place. If you strive to do anything remotely interesting, just expect a small percentage of the population to always find a way to take it personally. F*ck ’em. There are no statues erected to critics.
- Timothy Ferriss
Notable Quotables
How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.
- John C. Maxwell
You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.
- Ronald Perelman
Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.
- Winston Churchill
When you walk in God’s favor, His blessings will chase you down and overtake you.
- Joel Olsteen
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
- Steve Martin
Africa is on the rise.
- Bill Gates
The public is upset. If they haven’t lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven’t lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something’s wrong, it’s government’s job to fix it, it must be government that’s responsible for causing it.
- Michael Bloomberg
People who couldn’t fit into this informal and entreprenual environment left or were asked to leave. I cut my losses quickly on bad hires that didn’t perform.
- Jack Welch
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
- Aristotle
If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.
- Pierre Omidyar
Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
- Walt Disney
It will change the way we work, live, play and learn.
- John Chambers
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
In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.
- Harvey Mackay
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
- Richard Branson
Build a culture that rewards—not punishes—people for getting problems into the open where they can be solved.
- Ben Horowitz
Become genuinely interested in other people.
- Dale Carnegie
Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
- Seth Godin
It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.
- Winston Churchill
In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
- Reed Hastings
Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company.
- Steve Wozniak
You don’t build a business –you build people– and then people build the business.
- Zig Ziglar
Much like us, our customers are rigorously working to improve their profitability and capacity for innovation. For us, this means doing everything possible when it comes to efficiency, effectiveness, and innovations – and all that on the basis of the highest quality. After all, quality creates trust – and trust creates orders. In short, we need to constantly become better and better at the high level we are already operating at.
- Elmar Degenhart
The words Think and Thank are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: Think and Thank. Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.
- Dale Carnegie
Thus far then have we travelled along the terrible road we chose at the call of duty. The mood of Britain is wisely and rightly averse from every form of shallow or premature exultation. This is no time for boasts or glowing prophecies, but there is this: A year ago our position looked forlorn, and well nigh desperate to all eyes but our own. To-day we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: ‘We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls.
- Winston Churchill
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
- Napoleon Hill
all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.
- Timothy Ferriss
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
- Bill Gates
My advice for an entrepreneur just starting out is to differentiate yourself. Why are you different? What’s important about you? Why does the customer need you?
- Sara Blakely
Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.
- Donald Trump
The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.
- Peter Thiel
Appreciation – Learn to give flowers while people are still living.
- Joel Olsteen
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
The Value of a Smile at Christmas It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.
- Dale Carnegie
Just as ships are built to sail the seas and planes to fly the heavens, so is man created for a purpose.
- Zig Ziglar
Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don’t like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this – it hurts too much.
- Donald Trump
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
- Stephen R. Covey
The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.
- Robin Li
We’re running the company to serve more people.
- Mark Zuckerberg
You can’t win by being more average than average.
- Seth Godin
God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.
- Joel Olsteen
It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, an Inner Temple lawyer, now become a seditious fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceregal Palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor.
- Winston Churchill
If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.
- Ray Kroc
Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.
- Bill Gates
It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.
- Bill Gates
In a poor organization, on the other hand, people spend much of their time fighting organizational boundaries, infighting, and broken processes. They are not even clear on what their jobs are, so there is no way to know if they are getting the job done or not. In the miracle case that they work ridiculous hours and get the job done, they have no idea what it means for the company or their careers. To make it all much worse and rub salt in the wound, when they finally work up the courage to tell management how fucked-up their situation is, management denies there is a problem, then defends the status quo, then ignores the problem.
- Ben Horowitz
Be ‘hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise,’ and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime – repeat them years after you have forgotten them.
- Dale Carnegie
What has sustained us through these years? Trust. Dedication. Discipline.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.
- Dale Carnegie
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
- Henry Ford
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mahatma Gandhi
It was a big momentum deal, so when the bottom comes out from under it, you have to go back to the well and start the whole thing.
- Travis Kalanick
Out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
- Ben Horowitz
The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.
- Joel Olsteen
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
- Winston Churchill
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
- Zig Ziglar
I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.
- George Soros
The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.
- Dale Carnegie
America gets its opinions from advertising.
- Phil Knight
We always try to look three to five years out in the decisions we make and there’s no question that the Cisco brand, our opportunity in the commercial market and the evolution of our leaders are going to take us to the next level.
- John Chambers
Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products – iPod, iPhone, iPad – that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
- Winston Churchill
Know what your brand stands for an exaggerate it in everything you do.
- David Novak
Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, – it largely increases the product.
- P.T. Barnum
Music plays a very important role in my life. I’m a frustrated musician. I play the drums.
- Ronald Perelman
Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Using a two-dollar commission, they really sold.
- Phil Knight
Let’s realise that criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. Let’s realise that the person we are going to correct and condemn will probably justify himself o herself, and condemn us in return.
- Dale Carnegie
Any time is a good time to start a company.
- Ron Conway
If a man’s heart is rankling with discord and ill feeling toward you, you can’t win him to your way of thinking with all the logic in Christendom. Scolding parents and domineering bosses and husbands and nagging wives ought to realize that people don’t want to change their minds. They can’t be forced or driven to agree with you or me. But they may possibly be led to, if we are gentle and friendly, ever so gentle and ever so friendly.
- Dale Carnegie
The thing for you is a burial permit. You have only to speak and I will see that you get it.
- Dale Carnegie
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
- Winston Churchill
The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.
- Azim Premji
The government used to be able to coordinate complex solutions to problems like atomic weaponry and lunar exploration. But today, after 40 years of indefinite creep, the government mainly just provides insurance; our solutions to big problems are Medicare, Social Security, and a dizzying array of other transfer payment programs. It’s no surprise that entitlement spending has eclipsed discretionary spending every year since 1975. To increase discretionary spending we’d need definite plans to solve specific problems. But according to the indefinite logic of entitlement spending, we can make things better just by sending out more checks.
- Peter Thiel
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Don’t settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That’s your location, it’s not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
- Joel Olsteen
It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
- Jack Welch
The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person’s e-mail and every single person’s Twitter @ reply.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
We have a very high churn rate, but as soon as we turn on email marketing to our user base, people will come back.” Yes, of course. The reason that people leave our service and don’t come back is that we have not been sending them enough spam. That makes total sense to me, too.
- Ben Horowitz
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.
- Donald Trump
In reality it is the focus on the first three D’s that ultimately gains you the data, and the dollars you need to become very, very rich…in other words the dollars are derived from having a dream, being dedicated, and having the drive to win.
- Robert Kiyosaki
PR is gift-wrapping. If you package a bracelet in a Tiffany box, it will have a higher perceived value than if you presented it in a Kmart box.
- Michael Levine
Good relations with the Wookiees, I have.
- Yoda
Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.
- Bill Gates
Always deliver more than expected.
- Larry Page
The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That’s a bittersweet ending.
- Timothy Ferriss
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
- Thomas Edison
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
- P.T. Barnum
You have to act and act now.
- Larry Ellison
I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.
- Joel Olsteen
THE MOST CONTENTIOUS question in business is whether success comes from luck or skill.
- Peter Thiel
If you can’t make 40% on your money in Russia, you’re a fool.
- Simon Reuben
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
- Oprah Winfrey
In bad times and good, I have never lost my sense zest for life
- Walt Disney
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
- Winston Churchill
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
- Winston Churchill
Blacksmiths sometimes twist a rope tight around the nose of a horse, and by thus inflicting a little pain they distract his attention from the shoeing process. One way to get air out of a glass is to pour in water. Be Absorbed by Your Subject.
- Dale Carnegie
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you’ve got somebody who’s raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give ’em that shot.
- Jack Welch
Customers have different need states and life experiences.
- Howard Schultz
