Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn’t at least two of the four. I read the front-page headlines through.
- Timothy Ferriss
Notable Quotables
Present my story and the difficulties that I have faced. As an entrepreneur, a CEO.
- Ben Horowitz
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Peter Drucker
There are no longer any great jobs where someone else tells you precisely what to do.
- Seth Godin
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other opinions drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.
- Zig Ziglar
No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you’re perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
- Abigail Johnson
In periods of stress and grief, not only does your mind do funny things, you say things that surprise you.
- Phil Knight
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
- Winston Churchill
The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.
- Dale Carnegie
In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn’t get that job unless you were really worth it.
- Vagit Alekperov
My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars – this is very important – so you don’t have to carry the return fuel when you go there.
- Elon Musk
Poor people ride the bus, because they value money more than time.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The new information technology… Internet and e-mail… have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
- Peter Drucker
America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.
- Michael Bloomberg
tends to rivet our attention on the Icarus companies.
- James C. Collins
EVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.
- Peter Thiel
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
- Henry Ford
Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you’re asking for money!
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
I have ways of making money that you know nothing about…(if you’re firm won’t sell) you will stand alone, Your firm can never make any more money in Cleveland. No use trying to do business in competition with Standard Oil Company. If you do (continue to fight) it will end in your being wiped out.
- John D. Rockefeller
Polio’s pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it’s just there as a gift for the rest of time.
- Bill Gates
Why settle for the ‘get by’ when in the long run the good costs less?
- Zig Ziglar
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
- Andrew Carnegie
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
- Jack Welch
We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.
- Winston Churchill
The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
- Zig Ziglar
Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn’t.
- Ben Horowitz
They want good stories. They aren’t paid to say, no. They’re paid to say yes to the right stories.
- Michael Levine
Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
- W. Clement Stone
A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
- Howard Schultz
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
Some of the biggest failures I’ve ever met, are people that have never failed.
- Robert Kiyosaki
When you are unbalanced you can launch things
- Rachel Faucett
Dreamline Questions:What are you good at?What could you be the best at?What makes you happy?What excites you?What makes you feel accomplished and good about yourself?What are you most proud of having accomplished in your life? Can you repeat this or further develop it?What do you enjoy sharing or experiencing with other people?
- Timothy Ferriss
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
- Elon Musk
Nonetheless, that know-how is often unmanageable. Avoidable failures are commmon and persistent, not to mention demoralizing and frustrating, across many fields – from medicine to finance, business to government. And the reason is increasingly evident: the volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely, or reliably. Knowledge has both saved us and burdened us. That means we need a different strategy for overcoming failure, one that builds on experience and takes advantage of the knowledge people have but somehow also makes up for our inevitable human inadequacies. And there is such a strategy – though it will seem almost ridiculous in its simplicity, maybe even crazy to those of us who have spent years carefully developing ever more advanced skills and technologies. It is a checklist.
- Atul Gawande
[On American running shoes] They cost five bucks and gave you blood blisters after five miles. Adidas was taking advantage. And at $30 a pair, Adidas was making a killing.
- Phil Knight
Well… I graduated from the business school of Northumberland University in Newcastle.
- Alexei Mordashov
I do limit my exposure to the public. You only have so much time.
- Donald Bren
People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.
- Joel Olsteen
I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.
- Bill Gates
The problems forced us to take a hard look at what we were doing, what was going wrong, what we were good at, and where we wanted to go.
- Phil Knight
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people’s lives.
- Oprah Winfrey
The soul of business is not making money but making people happy.
- Aliko Dangote
Humans are distinguished from other species by our ability to work miracles. We call these miracles technology.
- Peter Thiel
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
This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.
- Bill Gates
I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
- Wang Jianlin
Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
- Larry Ellison
Good action today will produce good living tomorrow.
- Zig Ziglar
Statistics doesn’t work when the sample size is one.
- Peter Thiel
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
- Stephen R. Covey
Write like you talk. Often.
- Seth Godin
If you pay that price daily by planning and preparing and working to become the right kind of person, then you can legitimately expect to have all that life has to offer.
- Zig Ziglar
When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.
- Steve Wozniak
Life’s a journey. It’s a journey about discovering limits.
- Larry Ellison
Leadership is influence.
- John C. Maxwell
Historians will record 1998 as a time when the impossible happened in Asia
- Cheng Yu-tung
We saw – we conducted the experiment. I mean, it’s been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we’re gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
- Larry Ellison
Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there’s an education level that plays into the mix and so if it’s inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.
- Ray Dalio
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
- Warren Buffett
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
- Peter Drucker
Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field
- Peter Thiel
The most impressive person I’ve ever met? Elaine Wynn is no slouch. She’s a much better person than me. But I’ve got her. Finders keepers, losers weepers. And it’s been forty-seven years.
- Stephen Wynn
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.
- Michael Bloomberg
Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
- Jack Ma
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
I love art, I love design, and I love seeing that intersection of technology and the teams that work on it.
- Jack Dorsey
I am not a best-writing author. I am a best-selling author.
- Robert Kiyosaki
If you concentrate on what you have, you will always end up having more. If you focus on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
It’s no secret that we were sticking just above every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
- Walt Disney
Allow endings.
- Jack Dorsey
I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.
- Joel Olsteen
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
- Ray Kroc
Globalization replaced technology as the hope for the future. Since the ’90s migration “from bricks to clicks” didn’t work as hoped, investors went back to bricks (housing) and BRICs (globalization). The result was another bubble, this time in real estate.
- Peter Thiel
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence…. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
- Thomas Edison
It’s Almost Impossible to Overinvest in Becoming the Market Leader.
- Seth Godin
It’s always good to be underestimated.
- Donald Trump
Don’t sling mud at others or soon you will find yourself in a deeper hole than when you started.
- Clay Clark
Remember that tomorrow when you are trying to get somebody to do something. If, for example, you don’t want your children to smoke, don’t preach at them, and don’t talk about what you want; but show them that cigarettes may keep them from making the basketball team or winning the hundred-yard dash.
- Dale Carnegie
There’s a sucker born every minute.
- P.T. Barnum
By the end of the war (the civil war) John D. Rockefeller had established the foundations of his personal and professional life and was set to capitalize on the extraordinary opportunities beckoning him in postwar America. From this point forward, there would be no zigzags, or squandered energy, only a single-minded focus on objectives that would make him both the wonder and terror of American business.
- Ron Chernow
In those days he was wiser than he is now, he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson.
- Winston Churchill
A startup is a team of people on a mission, and a good culture is just what that looks like on the inside.
- Peter Thiel
We’d love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.
- Richard Branson
A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy, so (he keeps) coming back, which pleases the shareholder.
- Herb Kelleher
Freedom does not come automatically, it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound
- Rollo May
You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years
- Sara Blakely
Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.
- Joel Olsteen
Today is the tommorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Dale Carnegie
The average occupancy rate of the core investment properties of the group was maintained at a high level of 96%.
- Lee Shau Kee
We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
- Alexei Mordashov
You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.
- Steve Case
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
- Seth Godin
Then he fell on his knees and cried out, Lord do not hold this sin against them. When he said this, he fell asleep (he died).
- Acts 7:60
If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.
- Rupert Murdoch
