According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
- Bill Gates
Notable Quotables
There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.
- Elon Musk
And we know that in ALL things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:28
About half of our wives do not work outside the home. The number-one occupation for those wives who do work is teacher.
- Thomas J Stanley
This is why so many small and medium-sized businesses don’t use tools that bigger firms take for granted. It’s not that small business proprietors are unusually backward or that good tools don’t exist: distribution is the hidden bottleneck.
- Peter Thiel
A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
- John C. Maxwell
The reason is that good management itself was the root cause. Managers played the game the way it was supposed to be played. The very decision-making and resource-allocation processes that are key to the success of established companies are the very processes that reject disruptive technologies: listening carefully to customers; tracking competitors’ actions carefully; and investing resources to design and build higher-performance, higher-quality products that will yield greater profit. These are the reasons why great firms stumbled or failed when confronted with disruptive technological change.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Cows, after you’ve seen them for a while, are boring. They may be perfect cows, attractive cows, cows with great personalities, cows lit by beautiful light, but they’re still boring.
- Seth Godin
I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.
- Sara Blakely
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
- Harry Truman
Let’s find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. …When Darwin completed the manuscript of his immortal book The Origin Of Species he realized that the publication of his revolutionary concept of creation would rock the intellectual and religious worlds. So he became his own critic and spent another 15 years checking his data, challenging his reasoning, and criticizing his conclusions.
- Dale Carnegie
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
- Peter Drucker
The new information technology… Internet and e-mail… have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
- Peter Drucker
And if I were the president, I’d go out there and I’d emphasize the things I have done, and I’d say, ‘Some things haven’t worked, and I’m sorry about that, but I keep trying.’ And I’m – and I think the president is a very viable candidate, and you’re going to have a real horse race here no matter who the Republican nominee is.
- Michael Bloomberg
Most businesses get zero distribution channels to work: poor sales rather than bad product is the most common cause of failure. If you can get just one distribution channel to work, you have a great business. If you try for several but don’t nail one, you’re finished.
- Peter Thiel
Its obvious that we don’t know one millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas Edison
The best entrepreneurs I’ve ever met are all good communicators. It’s perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.
- Timothy Ferriss
An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
- George Soros
We found that for leaders to make something great, their ambition has to be for the greatness of the work and the company, rather than for themselves.
- James C. Collins
Let us work together to take Hong Kong to new heights.
- Cheng Yu-tung
I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.
- Warren Buffett
You hit what you aim at, and if you aim at nothing you will hit it every time.
- Zig Ziglar
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Innovation could impact everything…
- Jack Dorsey
I… had no need for cheering dreams,” he wrote. Facts are better than dreams.
- James C. Collins
If you’re not one or two in the market, you don’t make money. The market leaders make the money.
- Jack Welch
Start where you stand and with what you have
- George Washington Carver
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
- Thomas Edison
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as ‘community entrepreneurship.’
- Donald Bren
On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
- Joel Olsteen
This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It’s not politically viable; it’s not morally right; it’s just not going to happen.
- Michael Bloomberg
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
- Winston Churchill
In the short term, the market is a popularity contest. In the long term, the market is a weighing machine.
- Warren Buffett
The subject of this book is managing oneself for effectiveness.
- Peter Drucker
Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.”
- John C. Maxwell
Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be.
- Sam Walton
Mr. Morgan buys his partners. I grow my own.
- Andrew Carnegie
This is not the end its only the beginning
- Winston Churchill
Tip 29 – A good Accountant is not just a scorekeeper.
- Jack Nadel
Rockefeller’s supreme insight was that he could solve the oil industry’s problems by solving the railroad’s problems at the same time, creating a double cartel in oil and rails. One of Rockefeller’s strength in bargaining situations was that he figured out what he wanted and what the other party wanted and then crafted mutually advanteous terms. Instead of ruining the railroads, Rockefeller tried to help them prosper, albeit in away that fortified his own position.
- Ron Chernow
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
- Winston Churchill
You’ve got to eat while you dream. You’ve got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
- Jack Welch
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Peter Drucker
If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.
- Zig Ziglar
We are continuing to see a number of signs that could be interpreted with the appropriate caveats as optimistic.
- John Chambers
People easily confuse skill with personality.
- Jerry Vass
Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.
- Bill Gates
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
- Henry Ford
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
Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
- Jim Collins
You don’t ever want to sell, you want customers to sell.
- Clay Clark
If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.
- Elon Musk
Accessible design is good design.
- Steve Ballmer
I’ve come too far to stop now. I may be knocked down, but I’m not knocked out. I’m going to get back up again. I know I’m a victor, not a victim.
- Joel Olsteen
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
- Thomas Edison
Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, “Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.
- Winston Churchill
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
- Bill Gates
I am results-oriented.
- Bill Gates
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
- Dale Carnegie
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
- Bill Gates
When you supervise something, it is one thing. When you are in the middle of something, there is a different pace of life.
- Vladimir Potanin
I like to look for patterns in science and life. It’s what I do.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
There is no such thing as a good tax.
- Winston Churchill
Visionary companies are so clear about what they stand for and what they’re trying to achieve that they simply don’t have room for those unwilling or unable to fit their exacting standards.
- James C. Collins
Perfect is an illusion, one that was created to maintain the status quo. The Six Sigma charade is largely about hiding from change, because change is never perfect. Change means reinvention, and until something is reinvented, we have no idea what the spec is.
- Seth Godin
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.
- Timothy Ferriss
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
Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
- Bill Gates
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
- Henry Ford
Think of social media as the Internet. I can’t think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Henceforth, I will consider each day’s effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak. The first blow may cause not a tremor in the wood, nor the second, nor the third. Each blow, of itself, may be trifling, and seem of no consequence. Yet from childish swipes the oak will eventually tumble. So it will be with my efforts of today. I will be likened to the raindrop, which washes away the mountain; the ant who devours a tiger; the star which brightens the earth; the slave who builds a pyramid. I will build my castle one brick at a time for I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. I will persist until I succeed.
- Og Mandino
But if you expect an indefinite future ruled by randomness, you’ll give up on trying to master it.
- Peter Thiel
The doctors actually told my family there was a five percent chance of me living.
- Ed Clark
The microprocessor is a miracle.
- Bill Gates
Simply put, your job is to prepare yourself and your business for growth.
- Michael Gerber
Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale’s here in the United States.
- Sara Blakely
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
That’s the hard thing about hard things—there is no formula for dealing with them.
- Ben Horowitz
It’s really a full-time job to manage our lives.
- Sara Blakely
Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
- Bill Gates
During the past financial year, development properties sold by the Group amounted to approximately HK$3,592 million in total attributable sales proceeds, representing around 1,700 units…
- Lee Shau Kee
We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun together.
- Walt Disney
Being a CEO is the nuts! A whole jumble of thoughts come to mind: Over the top. Wild. Fun. Outrageous. Crazy. Passion. Perpetual Motion. The give and take. Meetings into the night. Incredible friendships. Fine wine. Celebrations. Great golf courses. Big decisions in the real game. Crises and pressure. Lots of swings. A few home runs. The thrill of winning and the pain of losing. It’s as good as it gets. You get paid a lot, but the real payoff is the fun…
- Jack Welch
Culture manages when management is not there.
- Joe Jordan
The point is that you can’t be too greedy.
- Donald Trump
Many entrepreneurs focus only on short-term growth. They have an excuse: growth is easy to measure, but durability isn’t.
- Peter Thiel
Cherish your dreams as they are the children of your soul… –
- Napoleon Hill
Options – the ability to choose – is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money – a lot more money – by doing half of what you are doing now.
- Timothy Ferriss
I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship… it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.
- Azim Premji
Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.
- Phil Knight
Kickstarter isn’t a profit center, it’s an organizer and an instigator.
- Seth Godin
How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is let’s make this a true land of opportunity.
- Laurene Powell Jobs
If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn’t do anything unless you do it right.
- George Foreman
Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
- Joel Olsteen
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
- Seth Godin
When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
- Zig Ziglar
Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.
- Howard Schultz
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
- Napoleon Hill
The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Get mad, then get over it.
- Colin Powell