The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
- John D. Rockefeller
Notable Quotables
I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.
- George Soros
Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.
- Howard Schultz
I will study and prepare myself, and someday the opportunity will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
I believe people have to follow their dreams – I did.
- Larry Ellison
Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
- Russell Simmons
Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.
- Reed Hastings
He possessed a sense of calling in both religion and business, with Christianity and capitalism forming the twin pillars of his life.
- Ron Chernow
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
- Steve Martin
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan
If we can get you a car in five minutes, we can get you anything in five minutes.
- Travis Kalanick
The arrival of the 21st century precedes the onslaught of turmoil and tsunami. The business environment has become unpredictable and the global economy even harsher…
- Cheng Yu-tung
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
- Zig Ziglar
A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it.
- Seth Godin
Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.
- Howard Schultz
I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.
- Steve Ballmer
A man has not right to occupy another man’s time unnnecessary
- Ron Chernow
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
- Jeff Bezos
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I think the most important thing that I think everyone in America must have is belief that wherever they live, whatever station they have in life, that the American dream is alive and well. I think the fracturing of trust and confidence is in the American dream.
- Howard Schultz
If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.
- Richard Branson
I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
- Reid Hoffman
We have two turbines in our company: One is engineering, and the other is operations. And so our business people are on equal footing with our engineering and technology culture. Cars are moving because of what we do, so there’s an imperative to go beyond just the technology.
- Travis Kalanick
You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.
- Ronald Perelman
You don’t need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.
- Harvey Mackay
Growth inside fuels growth outside.
- John C. Maxwell
Visionary companies make some of their best moves by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident. What looks in retrospect like brilliant foresight and preplanning was often the result of Let’s just try a lot of stuff and keep what works.
- James C. Collins
It’s not about toughness, it’s not about attitude. Companies don’t fail for lack of cash or attitude. Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.
- Mark Cuban
Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.
- Richard Branson
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
- Oscar Wilde
When you look at the dark side, careful you must be. For the dark side looks back.
- Yoda
Connectors understand the necessity of creating value for others. If you want to be in the middle of the action, you must seek ways to enhance the lives of those surrounding you. The best connectors I know are extremely generous with introductions where they make sense. One of my favorite questions is, What are you most excited about right now? From that answer, I know who I can hook that person up with.
- Forbes
Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
- Joel Olsteen
A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
It is not your aptitude but your ATTITUDE that decides your altitude in life.
- Zig Ziglar
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
- Winston Churchill
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
The order for the seats amounted to $90,000. Who do you suppose got the order—James Adamson or one of his competitors? From the time of this story until Mr. Eastman’s death.
- Dale Carnegie
If you’re in business, first and foremost, you have to be nice. Show your customers that you care.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
God doesn’t look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.
- Mother Teresa
You will find only what you bring in.
- Yoda
Have you ever heard of Gmail? Ever used it? If so, it’s not because Gmail ran a lot of TV ads (they didn’t). It’s because the manifesto of free email got to you.
- Seth Godin
Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.
- Mukesh Ambani
Lack of a well-defined purpose in life.
- Napoleon Hill
Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect’s mind.
- Zig Ziglar
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
- Bill Gates
Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.
- Jeff Bezos
I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
- Richard Branson
If I was down to my last dollar, I would spend it on public relations.
- Bill Gates
Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.
- Joel Olsteen
Dell will participate in tablets and all sorts of client devices. Our main business is helping our customers secure, protect their data and access it from any device they want to.
- Michael Dell
On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We’ve got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers – and there could be a lot of them – will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.
- Howard Schultz
Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I’m going to continue fighting for the end user.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
- Andrew Carnegie
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
- Henry Ford
Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
- Dale Carnegie
To grow your company explosively you must have leaders, not just efficient managers.
- John Maxwell
Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.
- Jerry Seinfeld
God is faithful to His word. All of His promises are Yes” and Amen.” That means if you will do your part and believe even though it looks impossible, and not let your mind, your emotions, or other people talk you out of it, then God promises in due season and at the right time He will bring it to pass. It may not happen the way you expect it or on your timetable, but God is a faithful God. It will happen.
- Joel Olsteen
If you can discipline yourself to read, you can free up two years of your life for the good stuff!
- Seth Godin
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
- Bill Gates
So long as I can stay mentally alert – inquiring, curious – I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don’t want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I’m just not ready to stop, to die.
- Rupert Murdoch
You guarantee a good meal by picking the recipes well, not by following recipes well.
- Timothy Ferriss
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
- Harvey Mackay
I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn’t even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.
- Sara Blakely
Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic
- Timothy Ferriss
A successful manager told me that stopped wearing a watch. She found that the work was so immersive, anchoring it to whatever hour it happened to be was pointless. The watch reminded her of the rigors of appointments and the status quo, while her goal was to be there, right here, right now, in the moment, and to do the work in front of her. The watch had no role in doing that right, so, for now, it’s gone.
- Seth Godin
Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
The thing about the banjo is, when you first hear it, it strikes many people as ‘What’s that?’ There’s something very compelling about it to certain people; that’s the way I was; that’s the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are.
- Steve Martin
What we maybe should’ve realized sooner was that we are running a political campaign and the candidate is Uber. And this political race is happening in every major city in the world. And because this isn’t about a democracy, this is about a product, you can’t win 51 to 49. You have to win 98 to 2.
- Travis Kalanick
I wanted to be an artist. They see the world in a very different way.
- Jack Dorsey
I think there’s plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That’s just not the kind of blog I’m writing, and I’m not the kind of blogger that could do that.
- Seth Godin
I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
- Steve Martin
To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi – that’s what we’re here for.
- Russell Simmons
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill… it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
- Li Ka-shing
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don’t go into government.
- Donald Trump
In the beginning, I thought mobile search was not much different from Web search. It’s just a smaller screen, a slower speed; it’s all the bad things. When I thought about mobile Internet, it’s all the disadvantages.
- Robin Li
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
- Og Mandino
The Minden prospect originated this past summer through a large acreage acquisition from a major oil company and Cabot now controls 3,500 acres over the area. We are pleased with our initial results and will remain active in this area throughout 2006. On forty-acre spacing, the prospect has the potential for 80 plus locations.
- Dan Dinges
The bigger your list, the greater your options. That doesn’t mean you contact everyone on your list each time you send out a press release. You pick and choose who gets what, and block out long-term strategy as you go.
- Michael Levine
The pent-up demand for the good life in China is extraordinary.
- Stephen Wynn
History recalls the remarkable resilience of the territory’s people.
- Cheng Yu-tung
One who knows God is going to bless them, despite the fact that they have no idea how to actually raise capital or solve a real problem that people have in exchange for monetary compensation. They love the idea of business ownership, yet fear working, as though doing any actual work or rendering any tangible service or product might ruin their lives on this planet and for eternity.
- Clay Clark
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
- Harry Truman
It was really an easy decision for me to be a part of the Lakers. It’s priceless. It is one of the few places where I truly get lost in the joy of the moment of that game. All of the stresses and all the responsibilities are gone.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
No one lives long enough to learn it all..
- Brian Tracy
The bottom line is that you need to do follow-up or you will be mediocre.
- Chet Holmes
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- Seneca
They did not die because of sickness or anything but because of hunger. I remember that and how people suffered.
- Lui Che Woo
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
- Zig Ziglar
A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
- Donald Trump
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
- Confucius
President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.
- Harold Hamm
When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.
- Joel Olsteen
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
There are two types of people in the world. One type is known as leaders and the other as followers. Decide at the outset whether you intend to become a leader in your chose calling or remain a follower. The difference in compensation is vast. The follwer cannot reasonably expect the compensation to which a leader is entitled, although many followers make the mistake of expecting such pay.
- Napoleon Hill
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
- Ben Horowitz
