It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can’t make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.
- Michael Otto
Notable Quotables
When one person yells the other should listen. When two people yell, there’s no communication.
- Dale Carnegie
Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
- Napoleon Hill
When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.
- Michael Bloomberg
Some people do really find fault like there’s a reward for it.
- Zig Ziglar
Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.
- Zig Ziglar
Don’t kill competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you – the entrepreneur – on your toes.
- Aliko Dangote
All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
I’d get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It’s a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.
- Sara Blakely
When you’ve got a strong enough why, you can always find the how.
- Zig Ziglar
Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you’re doing because you believe it’s right.
- Steve Wozniak
Media companies focused on things like creating great stories whereas technology companies focused on creating a better way of doing things. We began to think about new ideas and about forming a new company.
- Ben Horowitz
Surely, we all can look back and see things in our lives that we wish we would have done differently. But the Bible says, Make the most of each day.”4 Yesterday is gone; tomorrow may not come. You must live for today. Start right where you are. You can’t do anything about what’s gone, but you can do a great deal about what remains.
- Joel Olsteen
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
- John D. Rockefeller
The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.
- Zig Ziglar
What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
- Jack Welch
To make a ton of steel on and half tons of iron stone has to be mined, transported by rail a hundred miles to the Lakes, carried by boat hundreds of miles, transferred to cars, transported by rail 150 miles to Pittsburgh; one and a half tons of coal must be mined and manufactured into coke and carried 50 (odd) miles by rail; and one ton of limestone mined and carried 150 miles to Pittsburgh. How then could steel be manufactured and sold without loss at 3 pounds for 2 cents. This, I confess seemed to me incredible, and little less than miraculous, but it was so.
- Andrew Carnegie
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you’ll be valued highly.
- Tadashi Yanai
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit.
- Bill Gates
I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?’
- Elon Musk
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.
- Elon Musk
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
- Peter Drucker
Nobody kicks a dead dog.
- Dale Carnegie
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
- Napoleon Hill
Hmm. In the end, cowards are those who follow the dark side.
- Yoda
But iteration without a bold plan won’t take you from 0 to 1.
- Peter Thiel
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
- Steve Wozniak
I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997. That was my first professional online play
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Everybody has a product to sell.
- Peter Thiel
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’ You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
- Timothy Ferriss
What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.
- Dave Thomas
A disagreement or incident involving someone who’s not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.
- Joel Olsteen
true love is always backed up with actions.
- Joel Olsteen
I hate nobody except Hitler–and that is professional.
- Winston Churchill
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
- Thomas Edison
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
If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.
- Richard Branson
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit
- Napoleon Hill
If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
- Russell Simmons
I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful – it depends on how they’re managed.
- Ray Dalio
Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‘Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.’
- Joel Olsteen
For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can’t have privacy without security.
- Larry Page
At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then… we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
- Tadashi Yanai
Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.
- John C. Maxwell
No question about it, alot of my attitude towards money stems from growing up during a pretty hardscrabble time in our country’s history: the Great Depression.
- Sam Walton
People need to buy homes.
- Cheng Yu-tung
The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.
- Harvey Mackay
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.
- Sara Blakely
We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything that the first two have built up, and I certainly hope my family are different because I’ve worked too hard and my father has worked too hard for it to be given away.
- Gina Rinehart
What kind of business world are we living in?
- Jack Ma
We expected that good-to-great leaders would begin by setting a new vision and strategy. We found instead that they first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats – and then they figured out where to drive it.
- James C. Collins
A Timid Trapeze Artist Is a Dead Trapeze Artist.
- Seth Godin
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
- Wayne Gretzky
Three out of four of us who are self-employed consider ourselves to be entrepreneurs. Most of the others are self-employed professionals, such as doctors and accountants.
- Thomas J Stanley
I’ve always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
- Hakeem Olajuwon
There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.
- Elon Musk
Every dream I’ve ever had in life has come true ten times over.
- Steve Wozniak
If you spend money on what you want, you’ll beg for what you need.
- T.D Jakes
Seek Criticism Not Praise.
- Paul Arden
The missing ingredient for nearly all of the 1,000-plus clients I have worked with directly to improve their businesses is pigheaded discipline and determination. We all get good ideas at seminars and from books, radio talk shows and business-building gurus. The problem is that most companies do not know how to identify and adapt the best ideas to their businesses. Implementation, not ideas, is the key to real success.
- Chet Holmes
If you had to boil down the Wal-Mart system to one single idea, it would porbably be communication, because it is one of the real keys to our success…Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
- Sam Walton
I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat.
- Winston Churchill
I’m an Urban Scholar.
- Michael Ward
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
- Mark Zuckerberg
David Novak CEO of YUM Brands (on crisis management)
- David Novak
The commercial segment produced the best results.
- John Chambers
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
- Napoleon Hill
Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy
- Chris Humphrey
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
- Ray Kroc
My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.
- Sara Blakely
I tell my employees that we’re in the service business, and it’s incidental that we fly airplanes.
- Herb Kelleher
Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.
- Bill Gates
I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it’s coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.
- Howard Schultz
I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky
- Oprah Winfrey
I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.
- Richard Branson
The noblest art is that of making others happy.
- P.T. Barnum
We are focusing on the increasing need for mobility and growing demand from our industrial customers. The production volume for vehicles weighing up to six tons is expected to rise to between 100 million and 105 million vehicles. Furthermore, installation of electronics and software will continue to grow substantially, driven by growing demands from end-users and increasingly strict legal requirements for safety and energy consumption. It is partly on this basis that we are aiming for profitable sales of over €50 billion in 2020.
- Elmar Degenhart
Every noteworthy achievement met with some sort of temporary setback before success came.
- Napoleon Hill
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
- Steve Martin
Our road to success has included its shares of ups and downs, as we have had to cope with the often volatile nature of our chosen fields of specialisation. Yet, thanks to the strong foundations established by the dedication and hard work of our employees, we have always been able to weather the storms.
- Cheng Yu-tung
I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.
- Bill Gates
Excellence isn’t achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You’ve got to have both.
- George Foreman
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
- Oprah Winfrey
The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage
- Warren Buffett
[In January 2011] I think Twitter is so unique that we must stay independent.
- Jack Dorsey
What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.
- Oprah Winfrey
My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
If you can discipline yourself to read, you can free up two years of your life for the good stuff!
- Seth Godin
This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock, or an “opportunity” clock?
- Zig Ziglar
An employer has no business with a man’s personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance, and nothing else. Any attempt by an employer to go beyond this is usurpation. It is an immoral as well as illegal intrusion of privacy.
- Peter Drucker
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
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
- Elon Musk
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
- Henry Ford
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That’s the question to be worried about.
- Ray Dalio
There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won’t stand for that.
- Steve Martin
If You Want to Gather Honey, Don’t Kick Over the Beehive.
- Dale Carnegie
