Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
- Henry Ford
Notable Quotables
Man’s only limitation within reason lies in his development and use of his imagination
- Napoleon Hill
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
- Og Mandino
My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.
- Mukesh Ambani
Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can’t say, ‘Let’s just go back to where we were pre-9/11.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
I do limit my exposure to the public. You only have so much time.
- Donald Bren
And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.
- Winston Churchill
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
- James C. Collins
Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy – as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. That is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur. It was intended as a manifesto and as a declaration of dissent: the entrepreneur upsets and disorganizes. As Joseph Schumpeter formulated it, his task is “creative destruction.
- Peter Drucker
The best way to be missed when you’re gone,Is to stand for something when you’re here.
- Seth Godin
If you end your training now — if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did — you will become an agent of evil.
- Yoda
I think so many people are reactive… they see things in a short term way they’re right up against it.
- Ray Dalio
Underneath, you would surely see that the best care passionately about their people—about their growth and success. And you would see that they themselves are comfortable in their own skins. They’re real, filled with candor and integrity, optimism and humanity.
- Jack Welch
The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
- Zig Ziglar
You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.
- Oprah Winfrey
It is not your aptitude but your ATTITUDE that decides your altitude in life.
- Zig Ziglar
Appreciation – Learn to give flowers while people are still living.
- Joel Olsteen
Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.”
- John C. Maxwell
Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good
- Ron Chernow
We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.
- Michael Bloomberg
People that call old leads, drive old cars.
- Jason Bailey
I will study and prepare myself, and someday the opportunity will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.
- Russell Simmons
The lower and individual’s ability to lead, the lower the lid on his potential.
- John Maxwell
I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.
- Joel Olsteen
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
- Napoleon Hill
Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.
- Jerry Seinfeld
There comes a time in every company’s life where it must fight for its life. If you find yourself running when you should be fighting, you need to ask yourself, “If our company isn’t good enough to win, then do we need to exist at all?
- Ben Horowitz
Life is not a portfolio: not for a startup founder, and not for any individual. An entrepreneur cannot “diversify” herself: you cannot run dozens of companies at the same time and then hope that one of them works out well. Less obvious but just as important, an individual cannot diversify his own life by keeping dozens of equally possible careers in ready reserve.
- Peter Thiel
I watch mostly independent films.
- Reed Hastings
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The future is already here—it is just unevenly distributed.
- William Gibson
Definite planning even went beyond the surface of this planet: NASA’s Apollo Program began in 1961 and put 12 men on the moon before it finished in 1972.
- Peter Thiel
This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.
- Seth Godin
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
Almost everything is like a machine.
- Ray Dalio
All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
- Walt Disney
I like the book. Do you have a problem with that? … I just think it’s a great story of somebody who stood up for what they believe in.
- Travis Kalanick
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
- Zig Ziglar
We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.
- Michael Bloomberg
I haven’t failed,I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- Zig Ziglar
Fascinatingly, as companies begin to struggle, the third category always seems to grow much faster than the first. In addition, the sudden wave of “semi-performance-related attrition” usually happens in companies that claim to have a “super-high talent bar.” How do all these superstar employees suddenly go from great to crap?
- Ben Horowitz
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
- Winston Churchill
Talk in terms of the other person’s interests.
- Dale Carnegie
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
- Peter Drucker
Control has to be by feedback from the work done. The work itself has to provide the information. If it has to be checked all the time, there is no control.
- Peter Drucker
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn’t have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
- Jack Welch
The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.
- Seth Godin
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
- Zig Ziglar
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.
- Winston Churchill
Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.
- Ray Kroc
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
- Thomas Edison
Creating a sense of urgency around change initiatives is especially hard to do. Human nature seems to be hardwired to adhor change, and people will do everything in their power to resist it. I once heard this explained to another Pepsi consultant. His philosophy was that in order to drive change, you need to create what he called, the burning platform. This burning-platform image was an oil rig in the North Sea that has caught fire and the only way to save yourself is to jump into the frigid water and swim to the lifeboat. You know the jump might kill you, but you jump anyway, not because you think it might be a good idea, but because you had no choice. That’s creating a sense of urgency.
- David Novak
It’s absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.
- Zig Ziglar
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
- Og Mandino
Effective people know when to stop assessing and make a tough call, even without total information. Little is worse than a manager who can’t cut bait.
- Jack Welch
I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it’s useless. It’s meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
- Jack Dorsey
We modeled our employee stock ownership plan after Sam’s, and it worked well for us.
- Bernie Marcus
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.
- Matthew 7:12
thoughtless reliance on technology is a liability.
- James C. Collins
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
- W. Clement Stone
Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.
- A. G. Buckham
We don’t live in a normal world, we live under a power law.
- Peter Thiel
Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
- Sam Walton
Feel the force!
- Yoda
Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
- Elon Musk
To me, this is about preserving history and making it available to everyone
- Sergey Brin
If you’re only willing to do what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you’re willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.
- T. Harv Eker
God would not have put a dream in your heart if He had not already given you everything you need to fulfill it.
- Joel Olsteen
If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
- Zig Ziglar
Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
- Zig Ziglar
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
- Andrew Carnegie
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
Let’s not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember Life is too short to be little.
- Dale Carnegie
I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
- Elon Musk
Unless you have perfectly conventional beliefs, it’s rarely a good idea to tell everybody everything that you know. So who do you tell? Whoever you need to, and no more. In practice, there’s always a golden mean between telling nobody and telling everybody—and that’s a company. The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside.
- Peter Thiel
I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.
- Sergey Brin
Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.
- Bill Gates
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.
- Winston Churchill
Life’s a journey. It’s a journey about discovering limits.
- Larry Ellison
Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.
- Bill Gates
Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
- Dale Carnegie
Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
- Dale Carnegie
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
- Thomas Edison
Desire is the catalyst that enables a person with average ability to compete and win against others with more natural talent.
- Zig Ziglar
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
- Rupert Murdoch
For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.
- Timothy Ferriss
If you let pride stop you, you will hate life.
- Timothy Ferriss
Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.
- Reed Hastings
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
- Zig Ziglar
Surround yourself only with those that uplift you.
- Oprah Winfrey
Our job as founders as entrepreneurs is to distribute the future that’s already here.
- Jack Dorsey
The Dip creates scarcity, scarcity creates value.
- Seth Godin
Apple has a complex suite of proprietary technologies, both in hardware (like superior touchscreen materials) and software (like touchscreen interfaces purpose-designed for specific materials).
- Peter Thiel
Today, we’ve begun to make the extraordinary historic films of the National Archives available to the world for the first time online. Students and researchers whether in San Francisco or Bangladesh can watch remarkable video such as World War II newsreels and the story of Apollo 11 — the historic first landing on the Moon.
- Sergey Brin
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
- Napoleon Hill
If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive good.
- Russell Simmons
The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.
- Ray Kroc
Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.
- James C. Collins
