A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Notable Quotables
The foundation of the Germanic system was blood and kin.
- Winston Churchill
Therefore, every startup should start with a very small market. Always err on the side of starting too small. The reason is simple: it’s easier to dominate a small market than a large one. If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is.
- Peter Thiel
Video is emerging as the key strategic application in the service provider triple play bundle of consumer entertainment, communication and online services.
- John Chambers
If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it’s that I don’t understand future mainstream Internet users’ habits.
- Ma Huateng
Everything we do is about getting people to be more open, more creative, more courageous.
- Jack Dorsey
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
- Bill Gates
the expression one wears on one’s face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one’s back
- Dale Carnegie
I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.
- Joel Olsteen
It’s really a full-time job to manage our lives.
- Sara Blakely
I really chess-play culture shifts. I’m really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That’s what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
the average person is more interested in his or her own name than in all the other names on earth put together.
- Dale Carnegie
[Introducing himself to Sony co-founder Akio Morita] I have six of your TVs in my house.
- Phil Knight
We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.”-Bill Gates, Entrepreneur and founder of Microsoft
- Bill Gates
Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw the stars.
- Dale Carnegie
Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
- Reed Hastings
When someone expresses some feeling, attitude or belief, our tendency is almost immediately to feel that’s right,” or that’s stupid,” that’s abnormal,” that’s unreasonable,” that’s incorrect,” that’s not nice.” Very rarely do we permit ourselves to understand precisely what the meaning of the statement is to the other person.
- Dale Carnegie
Sales is a simple conversation where I ask you questions and I relate to your answers.
- Bryan Smith
The alternative to tourism The linchpin, the engaged one, the graceful actor in an unfolding play—these people don’t seek to only inspect. They’re not traveling in order to tick a checkbox. Instead, they open themselves to the world they bought a ticket to, knowing full well that they will be changed.
- Seth Godin
L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it’s just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.
- Steve Martin
If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.
- Elon Musk
Now when I consider investing in a startup, I study the founding teams. Technical abilities and complementary skill sets matter, but how well the founders know each other and how well they work together matter just as much. Founders should share a prehistory before they start a company together—otherwise they’re just rolling dice.
- Peter Thiel
Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
- Zig Ziglar
our skills and talent, but above all, be tenacious. See yourself as victorious–which means never giving up
- Donald Trump
The breadth and maturity of our own businesses is allowing us to weather the prevailing storms.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they’ll be there for you.
- Zig Ziglar
I love great music and art, but I think ‘cubist’ songs and paintings are hideous.
- Thomas Edison
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
We have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good – always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, ‘Don’t be evil’ seems the easiest way to summarize it.
- Sergey Brin
Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.
- Bill Gates
There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It’s fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form.
- Bill Gates
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger, the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
- Winston Churchill
The idea is to have relationships where you make money and the other guy makes money, too. That’s how a business keeps its team together.
- Russell Simmons
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
- Yoda
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
- Sam Walton
Let’s make it easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
- Jack Dorsey
I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, ‘I wish I had more money.’
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Every day were saying, ‘How can we keep this customer happy?’ How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don’t, somebody else will.
- Bill Gates
In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.
- Harvey Mackay
The thing that I’m most passionate about, I’m writing a book called ‘Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,’ and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.
- Bill Gates
Competition is an ideology—the ideology—that pervades our society and distorts our thinking.
- Peter Thiel
Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
- Sam Walton
Thank your opponents sincerely for their interest. Anyone who takes the time to disagree with you is interested in the same things you are. Think of them as people who really want to help you, and you may turn your opponents into friends.
- Dale Carnegie
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
- George Soros
Urm. Put a shield on my saber I must.
- Yoda
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
- Napoleon Hill
Accessible design is good design.
- Steve Ballmer
Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It’s something you have to learn. It’s a very lonely job.
- Ben Horowitz
Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn’t have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.
- Howard Schultz
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
If you are unduly nervous, turn it around make your vulnerability an asset.
- Michael Levine
When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.
- John C. Maxwell
Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
- Bill Gates
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
- Henry Ford
Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that
- Martin Luther King Jr.
There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don’t like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don’t spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.
- Michael Dell
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
- Zig Ziglar
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
- Bill Gates
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- Henry Ford
The single greatest danger for a founder is to become so certain of his own myth that he loses his mind. But an equally insidious danger for every business is to lose all sense of myth and mistake disenchantment for wisdom.
- Peter Thiel
Any colour – so long as it’s black.
- Henry Ford
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
- Russell Simmons
Our leaders in business, politics, research, and the arts are all great salespeople or they have great sales people on their payroll.
- Jerry Vass
You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.
- Joel Olsteen
When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‘Oh, it must be so hard.’ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.
- Jerry Seinfeld
An attributable HK$9,892 million worth of properties in Hong Kong was sold, an increase of 25% as compared with HK$7,895 million for the year before.
- Lee Shau Kee
Every noteworthy achievement met with some sort of temporary setback before success came.
- Napoleon Hill
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.
- Lisa Stone
A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it.
- Seth Godin
It truly levels the playing field and puts all the emphasis on the content. And all the emphasis on the merit of the idea.
- Jack Dorsey
The basis of persistence is the power of will. Men who accumulate, great fortunes are generally known as cold-blooded and sometimes ruthless. Often they are misunderstood. What they have is willpower, which they mix with persistence and place back of their desires to insure that attainment of their objectives. Henry Ford was generally misunderstood to be ruthless and cold-blooded. This misconception grew out of Ford’s habit of following through in all of his plans with PERSISTENCE…few carry on despite all opposition until they attain their goal. Those few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers and Edisons.
- Napoleon Hill
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
- John D. Rockefeller
So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.
- Richard Branson
If we do not have time to do it right the first time when will we have time to come back and do it right again later?
- Lee Cockerell
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
Even if we are right and the other person is definitely wrong, we only destroy ego by causing someone to lose face. The legendary French aviation pioneer and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote: I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.
- Dale Carnegie
The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.
- Bill Gates
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others.
- Dale Carnegie
Initiative = Happiness
- Seth Godin
Who you attract is not determined by what you want. It’s determined by who you are.
- John Maxwell
Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.
- Zig Ziglar
I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration!
- Sara Blakely
I am upset with the effect that both of these issues have had on the public,
- Michael Gerber
My parents were ordinary people, we lived in a small apartment.
- Viktor Vekselberg
Pouring espresso is an art, one that requires the barista to care about the quality of the beverage.
- Howard Schultz
I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
- John Wanamaker
Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.
- John C. Maxwell
We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.
- Michael Bloomberg
Live creatively, friends. . . . Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others” (Galatians 6:1, 4).
- Zig Ziglar
Education is the key to unlock the Golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
Storytelling is the game. It’s what we all do. It’s why Nike is Nike, it’s why Apple is Apple, it’s why Walt Disney built Disney World and it’s why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
