The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.
- Elon Musk
Notable Quotables
It’s Almost Impossible to Overinvest in Becoming the Market Leader.
- Seth Godin
It’s harder, but we’re still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That’s the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
- Harold Hamm
You will give birth to more in the future than you’ve lost in the past.
- Joel Olsteen
Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
- Steve Jobs
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
- Malcolm X
The real estate market in mainland China, however, experienced a dramatic change during the past year. In the second half of 2007, transacted prices in many cities had been repeatedly bid up to all time highs as a result of fierce competition at land auctions. The subsequent upsurge in housing prices, which were beyond the affordability of the general public, resulted in an overheated property market.
- Lee Shau Kee
Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
- Dale Carnegie
One of the most distinguished psychiatrists living, Dr. Carl Jung, says in his book Modern Man in Search of a Soul (*): During the past thirty years, people from all the civilised countries of the earth have consulted me. I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life-that is to say, over thirty-five-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
- Dale Carnegie
If a person makes a statement that you think is wrong—yes, even that you know is wrong—isn’t it better to begin by saying: Well, now, look. I thought otherwise, but I may be wrong. I frequently am. And if I am wrong, I want to be put right. Let’s examine the facts.” There’s magic, positive magic, in such phrases as: I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let’s examine the facts.
- Dale Carnegie
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
All bibles are man-made.
- Thomas Edison
Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.
- Rupert Murdoch
Marketing knits the whole organization together.
- Phil Knight
Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.
- Richard Branson
You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’
- Jerry Seinfeld
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
- Winston Churchill
Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.
- Joel Olsteen
You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying. Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
- Napoleon Hill
If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.
- Zig Ziglar
For every sale you miss because you were too enthusiastic, you’ll miss a hundred because you weren’t enthusiastic enough.
- Zig Ziglar
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
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.
- Elon Musk
If you’re single and you want to get married, put an empty photo album on your table. That’s where you’re going to put your wedding photos. When you see it, you’re moving toward it.
- Joel Olsteen
The [Henderson] Group adopted a conservative approach in replenishing its land bank and focused its resources to convert agricultural land holdings in hand into development land in the past year with a view to bringing down the cost of land replenishment and good progress has been made in this respect.
- Lee Shau Kee
When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big.
- Aliko Dangote
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
- Ben Horowitz
Exercise is overrated.
- Timothy Ferriss
Too often, that solution is nothing more than adding another layer. What you should be doing is going to the source of the problem to fix it, and sometimes that requires shooting the culprit,
- Sam Walton
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
- Peter Drucker
If any of my competitors were drowning, I’d stick a hose in their mouth
- Ray Kroc
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.
- Bill Gates
Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world’s fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
- Wang Jianlin
It’s not time,” “Take it easy,” “Wait and see,” “It’s someone else’s turn” – none of these stalls are appropriate for a leader in search of change. There’s a small price for being too early, but a huge penalty for being too late. The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.
- Seth Godin
Leanness is a methodology, not a goal. Making small changes to things that already exist might lead you to a local maximum, but it won’t help you find the global maximum.
- Peter Thiel
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
- Bill Gates
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded.
- Ben Horowitz
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is.
- Donald Trump
Projects undreamed of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants, comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts will ache and their lives will be barren, if they have not a vision above material things.
- Winston Churchill
I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.
- Joel Olsteen
There is little success where there is little laughter.
- Andrew Carnegie
It was the right thing to do.
- Phil Knight
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
- Oprah Winfrey
More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that’s more like a spice.
- Tadashi Yanai
Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.
- John C. Maxwell
Velocity and drive comes from your desire to achieve.
- Jim Cathcart
Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.
- Zig Ziglar
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
- Steve Wozniak
When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, He’s offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that person’s life. You must learn to follow that love. Don’t ignore it. Act on it. Somebody needs what you have.
- Joel Olsteen
No comment’ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
- Winston Churchill
Christopher Colombus’ big mistake was that he was looking for a trade route to China, and accidentally bumped into America, the richest, most powerful country in the world.
- Robert Kiyosaki
True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.
- Zig Ziglar
In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government.
- Alexei Mordashov
We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.
- Richard Branson
Do not swallow anything Satan is trying to ram down your throat. Jesus comes first.
- Joel Olsteen
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm.
- Vince Lombardi
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
- Bill Gates
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
- Winston Churchill
Don’t ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
- Wang Jianlin
You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It’s easy.
- Dale Carnegie
Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.
- John C. Maxwell
China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand.
- Mukesh Ambani
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
- Peter Drucker
Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
- Bill Gates
Learn to speak God’s favor over every area of your life. Remember, the more favor-minded you are, the more of God’s favor you’re going to experience.
- Joel Olsteen
Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.
- Seth Godin
Economic recovery in the United States has been taking place at a slow pace at a time of uncertainty in the Middle East. However, Mainland China was able to show steady sustained growth. Hong Kong, being right at the southern gateway of Mainland China, is able to benefit from its growth.
- Lee Shau Kee
For any business to grow, individuals must be accountable for each of the systems, and a general overall director must be in charge of making sure all the systems operate at the highest capacity.
- Robert Kiyosaki
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
We believe our growth rate indicates that Cisco continues to gain market share against our traditional competitors in most product sectors.
- John Chambers
One of the first things you learn when you run an engineering organization is that a good quality assurance organization cannot build a high-quality product, but it can tell you when the development team builds a low quality product. Similarly, a high quality human resources organization cannot make you a well-managed company with a great culture, but it can tell you when you and your managers are not getting the job done.
- Ben Horowitz
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
- Thomas Edison
People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don’t believe globalisation is bad. It’s criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
- Tadashi Yanai
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
- Seth Godin
Esta es la clave: las únicas promesas que se avivarán en su vida y terminarán convirtiéndose en realidad son las promesas en las que usted se levanta y dice: Sí, eso es para mí”. Tiene que entrar en acuerdo con Dios y permitir que eso eche raíz.
- Joel Olsteen
AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.
- Bill Gates
Eventually you won’t think of ‘the Internet business.’ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.
- Bill Gates
Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson – from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.
- Sara Blakely
Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
- Paula Poundstone
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
- Winston Churchill
I am results-oriented.
- Bill Gates
I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.
- Bill Gates
My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.
- Jerry Seinfeld
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
- Warren Buffett
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.
- Bill Gates
Success is…knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.
- John C. Maxwell
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
- Reid Hoffman
Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
- Confucius
I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.
- Bill Gates
I believe in motivating with humor. … – David Novak CEO OF Yum! Brands
- David Novak
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.
- Abraham Lincoln
I just am a Democrat. I could never, never be a Republican.
- Anne Cox Chambers
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
- Zig Ziglar
In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.
- Aliko Dangote
The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don’t bring presents.
- Zig Ziglar
