Notable Quotables

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

- Winston Churchill

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, ‘I’d like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?’

- Larry Ellison

It’s really complex to make something simple…

- Jack Dorsey

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

- Zig Ziglar

I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people–don’t tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment, it is the most vulnerable–one negative comment could knock you off course.

- Sara Blakely

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

- Bill Gates

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

- Seth Godin

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

- Napoleon Hill

Poker is a game where you don’t have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.

- Charles Ergen

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

- Jeff Bezos

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

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

- Bill Gates

I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.

- Sara Blakely

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

- Dale Carnegie

If your thinking is limited, then your life is going to be limited.

- Joel Olsteen

To say that there are no secrets left today would mean that we live in a society with no hidden injustices.

- Peter Thiel

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Edison

Be willing to make the mistakes and realizing that something can happen later – the patience are some of the things I would advise.

- Jack Dorsey

Our history is based on extending the brand to categories within the guardrails of Starbucks.

- Howard Schultz

You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.

- Elon Musk

We’ll be watching as the storm approaches. If we see a service area is about to be hit by high winds, we will literally have crews loaded and sitting in trucks, ready to go.

- Ed Clark

Success is doing what you want, where you want, when you want, with whom you want and as much as you want.

- Tony Robbins

We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.

- Gary Vaynerchuk

The third way is less common and certainly less of a layup—a culture of integrity, meaning a culture of honesty, transparency, fairness, and strict adherence to rules and regulations. In such cultures, there can be no head fakes or winks. People who break the rules do not leave the company for “personal reasons” or to “spend more time with their families.” They are hanged—publicly—and the reasons are made painfully clear to everyone.

- Jack Welch

Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

- Larry Page

When you look at the dark side, careful you must be. For the dark side looks back.

- Yoda

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

- Richard Branson

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

- Joel Olsteen

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

- Bill Gates

The constraint of 140 characters is easy to approach and consume, without a great deal of barriers to entry. One message and suddenly the whole world has access to that Tweet.

- Jack Dorsey

You will need to find ways to do less and less to make more and more.

- Robert Kiyosaki

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

- Joel Olsteen

Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.

- Richard Branson

I’d say it’s been my biggest problem of my life…it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

- Walt Disney

I have lots of sources of information about what’s going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.

- Steve Ballmer

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

- Warren Buffett

Your first projects aren’t the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn – you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.

- Steve Wozniak

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir ’em up, but you can’t do that on television. It’s just not on.

- Rupert Murdoch

Thus far then have we travelled along the terrible road we chose at the call of duty. The mood of Britain is wisely and rightly averse from every form of shallow or premature exultation. This is no time for boasts or glowing prophecies, but there is this: A year ago our position looked forlorn, and well nigh desperate to all eyes but our own. To-day we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: ‘We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls.

- Winston Churchill

We’d love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.

- Richard Branson

What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It’s about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it’s something that people have wanted forever.

- Seth Godin

Even though people are under economic pressure, they still want to support those brands with values that are compatible with their own.

- Howard Schultz

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

- John C. Maxwell

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.

- Steve Martin

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

- Sergey Brin

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

- Joel Olsteen

Andrew Carnegie believed the formula (of Think & Grow Rich) should be taught in all public schools and colleges, and expressed the opinion that if it were properly taught it would so revolutionize the entire education system that the time spent in school could be reduced to less than half….As far as (formal) schooling is concerned, many of the (great american business) men had very little.

- Napoleon Hill

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

- John C. Maxwell

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

- Joel Olsteen

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who’s going to build.

- Larry Ellison

For example, a world without secrets would enjoy a perfect understanding of justice. Every injustice necessarily involves a moral truth that very few people recognize early on: in a democratic society, a wrongful practice persists only when most people don’t perceive it to be unjust. At first, only a small minority of abolitionists knew that slavery was evil; that view has rightly become conventional, but it was still a secret in the early 19th century. To say that there are no secrets left today would mean that we live in a society with no hidden injustices.

- Peter Thiel

Art has no right answer. The best we can hope for is an interesting answer.

- Seth Godin

Before you can be sure of your ability to transmute DESIRE into its monetary equivalent, you will require SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE of the service, merchandise or profession which you intend to offer in return for fortune.

- Napoleon Hill

If geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

- Bill Gates

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

- Bill Gates

Surely, we all can look back and see things in our lives that we wish we would have done differently. But the Bible says, Make the most of each day.”4 Yesterday is gone; tomorrow may not come. You must live for today. Start right where you are. You can’t do anything about what’s gone, but you can do a great deal about what remains.

- Joel Olsteen

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

- Napoleon Hill

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

- Bill Gates

I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

- Mark Zuckerberg

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

- Napoleon Hill

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

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

- Bill Gates

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

- Peter Drucker

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

- John C. Maxwell

Stop doing things that waste time. Don’t replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that’s something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.

- Gary Vaynerchuk

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.

- Dale Carnegie

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

- John C. Maxwell

Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

- Ben Horowitz

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

- Og Mandino

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it’s hard to get them out on the air.

- Steve Martin

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

- Dale Carnegie

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

- Steve Ballmer

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

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

- Napoleon Hill

People say that what we are seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive.

- Joseph Campbell

The habit of doing more than paid for. One of the penalties of leadership is the necessity of willingness upon the part of the leader to do more than he requires of his followers.

- Napoleon Hill

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

- Joel Olsteen

I think what we’re lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

- Howard Schultz

Monopoly is therefore not a pathology or an exception. Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.

- Peter Thiel

[In January 2011] There are so many features Twitter could build. There’s so many features that Square can build. But there is only one or two going to bring us to the next level.

- Jack Dorsey

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.

- Bill Gates

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.

- Viktor E. Frankl

When launching something new, you have to go for it—“playing not to lose” can never be an option.

- Jack Welch

It’s not sufficient that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

- Larry Ellison

Simply stated, the value of a business today is the sum of all the money it will make in the future.

- Peter Thiel

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