The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
- Napoleon Hill
Notable Quotables
All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.
- Andrew Carnegie
Surround yourself with the right people
- Tony Hsieh
I’m tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
- Steve Martin
Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
- Bill Gates
You need to be better not bitter.
- Nate Waters
The great thing is we’re going to have a lot of new facilities, where the others were 10 years old or older. That’s a plus for the fans. The new State Road 20 is going to open. That’s a huge addition for us, probably one of the biggest things that’s happened since we bought the track in 1990.
- Ed Clark
His strategy would be to subjugate one part of the battlefield, consolidate his forces, then move briskly on to the next conquest. His victory over the Cleveland refiners would be the first but alos the most controversial compaign of his career.
- Ron Chernow
The moment a leader allows himself to become the primary reality people worry about, rather than reality being the primary reality, you have a recipe for mediocrity, or worse. This is one of the key reasons why less charismatic leaders often produce better long-term results than their more charismatic counterparts.
- James C. Collins
We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don’t decide for you.
- Larry Ellison
We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.
- Howard Schultz
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That’s what consumer confidence is.
- Howard Schultz
If somebody’s going on your board, and you’re going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before.
- Ben Horowitz
Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.
- Elon Musk
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
- Steve Martin
About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.
- Reed Hastings
We are fastidious investors. On average, we investnearly 20 percent of our household realized income each year. Most of us invest at least 15 percent. Seventy-nine percent of us have at least one account with a brokerage company. But we make our own investment decisions.
- Thomas J Stanley
Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.
- Joel Olsteen
We will make our products work out of the box.
- Steve Ballmer
It’s not Pinterest where people are putting up pins. You’re changing the way cities work, and that’s fundamentally a third rail. We’re in a political campaign, and the candidate is Uber and the opponent is an as—hole named Taxi.
- Travis Kalanick
Learn to say No to the good so that you can say Yes to your best.
- John Maxwell
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can’t cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.
- Howard Schultz
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
- Walt Disney
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
- Joel Olsteen
Success is about being where we are supposed to be and doing what we need to be doing.
- David Robinson
You cannot underestimate people’s ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It’s a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
The thing for you is a burial permit. You have only to speak and I will see that you get it.
- Dale Carnegie
You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.
- Elon Musk
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
- P.T. Barnum
I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‘There’s nothing good in my future’ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.
- Joel Olsteen
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
- Walt Disney
The future is in green energy, it’s in making steel for energy-efficient cars.
- Alexei Mordashov
The outside of a horse is good for the inside of man.
- Winston Churchill
My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.
- Steve Wozniak
What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.
- Admiral Jim Stockdale
Not victory , Obi- Wan. The shroud of the Dark Side has fallen. Begun, this Clone War has.
- Yoda
Hay una divinidad que forja nuestros fines, por mucho que queramos alterarlos.
- Dale Carnegie
Our minds were freewheeling. We rushed to get things done.
- Sam Walton
Intolerance.
- Napoleon Hill
The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you’re going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.
- Michael Bloomberg
All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
I’m Phil Knight, and I don’t believe in advertising.
- Phil Knight
American running shoes were still made by offshoots of the tire companies, cheap and terrible. They cost five bucks and gave you blood blisters…
- Phil Knight
Choose your customers, choose your future.
- Seth Godin
I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.
- Alisher Usmanov
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
- Andrew Carnegie
Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
- Steven Wright
People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don’t really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.
- Mark Zuckerberg
We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
- Larry Ellison
We believe that it is better to give one a rod to fish rather than just dole out fish to them.
- Henry Sy
Disneyland will never be the completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
- Walt Disney
People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Olsteen
To enjoy peace, a nation must win the confidence and support of its people.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
- James C. Collins
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
The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I’d be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.
- Elon Musk
Get through your fears and the world will open up. Give in to your fears and your world will get smaller every year.
- Robert Kiyosaki
I want people to learn what democracy means.
- Jack Ma
About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
- Bill Gates
This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
- Seth Godin
I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.
- Bill Gates
Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It’s not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious—but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.
- James C. Collins
You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
- Elon Musk
Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don’t recover because trust is broken. And if you’re not honest at the point where you’re breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.
- Ben Horowitz
We beat our expectations in the run up to Christmas and this time last year we had particularly high stock levels leading to a bigger clearance.
- Simon Wolfson
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I’ve operated and launched newspapers all over the world.
- Rupert Murdoch
Stick with the Dips that are likely to pan out, and quit the Cul-de-Sacs to focus your resources.
- Seth Godin
No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
- Seth Godin
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
- Henry Ford
Relaxation and Recreation The most relaxing recreating forces are a healthy religion, sleep, music, and laughter. Have faith in God—learn to sleep well— Love good music—see the funny side of life— And health and happiness will be yours.
- Dale Carnegie
God didn’t create you to be average. You were created to excel You have everything.
- Joel Olsteen
Steve really took over the project when I had a plane crash and wasn’t there. He took over the project, and it was really my own opinion — only my opinion — that he wanted to compete with the Lisa group that had kicked him out.
- Steve Wozniak
No one is guaranteed a job in this.
- Jack Welch
Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It’s more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.
- Bill Gates
I’ve always believed that businesses should be good citizens…
- Phil Knight
A definite person determines the one best thing to do and then does it. Instead of working tirelessly to make herself indistinguishable, she strives to be great at something substantive—to be a monopoly of one.
- Peter Thiel
Owners don’t fire all the players. They fire the leader and bring in someone they hope the players will buy into.
- Napoleon Hill
Don’t be so nervous. It’s not a big deal.
- Lee Shau Kee
This proves our strategy is working in terms of the convergence of voice, video and data.
- John Chambers
I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
- Elon Musk
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge. If the employees fundamentally trust the CEO, then communication will be vastly more efficient than if they don’t.
- Ben Horowitz
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.
- Mark Zuckerberg
If you’re not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it’s almost certain you’re not reaching your potential as a leader.
- Seth Godin
Even freebies must be delivered with a certain salesmanship or the receiver does not perceived the true value of the gift.
- Jerry Vass
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
- Henry Ford
I think so many people are reactive… they see things in a short term way they’re right up against it.
- Ray Dalio
I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
- Russell Simmons
I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‘Molecular Biology of the Gene.
- Bill Gates
You’ve got to listen to what God’s telling you and not to what other people may tell you. People will try to talk you out of the dream in your heart.
- Joel Olsteen
I don’t know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.
- James C. Collins
The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
- John C. Maxwell
I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not achieved what we have, there would have been many regional brands that would have succeeded. But I’m not sure there would have been a national brand of the scope of Starbucks.
- Howard Schultz
The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.
- Winston Churchill
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
- Thomas Edison
In the short term, the market is a popularity contest. In the long term, the market is a weighing machine.
- Warren Buffett
Like acting, sales works best when hidden. This explains why almost everyone whose job involves distribution—whether they’re in sales, marketing, or advertising—has a job title that has nothing to do with those things. People who sell advertising are called “account executives.” People who sell customers work in “business development.” People who sell companies are “investment bankers.” And people who sell themselves are called “politicians.
- Peter Thiel
