We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
- Tadashi Yanai
Notable Quotables
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- Thomas Edison
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been
- Sam Walton
You have in the U.S. around two million new diagnoses of cancer a year, and 13 million survivors, so you have about 10,000 patients that require analysis every day. That’s about five petabytes that need to be transmitted and computed on a daily basis.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
- Mark Twain
Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It’s not a popular position.
- Bill Gates
The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.
- Bill Gates
The reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively – I led the Series A financing for Friendster; I founded a company called Socialnet in 1997; I founded LinkedIn; and I was part of the first round of financing in Facebook – it sounds trivial, but people matter.
- Reid Hoffman
To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
Tip #17 – Perceived value is what sells. Real value is what repeats.
- Jack Nadel
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
- Peter Drucker
For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can’t have privacy without security.
- Larry Page
The more you complain about your problems, the more problems you will have to complain about.
- Zig Ziglar
Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought about some reform. That is how central banking developed.
- George Soros
You need to be around people who know more than you and have more talent than you. Don’t be intimidated by them, be inspired.
- Joel Olsteen
I’ve worked very hard, but my life’s always been fun.
- Reed Hastings
I think many start-ups make mistakes because they are focusing on things that are farther ahead, and they haven’t done the work that has built the foundation to support it.
- Howard Schultz
My priorities are; Family, Church, Business.
- Terry Fischer
When SAP, and, specifically Hasso Plattner, said they’re going to build this in-memory database and compete with Oracle, I said. God, get me the name of that pharmacist, they must be on drugs.
- Larry Ellison
Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.
- John C. Maxwell
When I was a comic in the 1980s, I was on the road somewhere every day, and I’d get back to the hotel, and it was Carson and Letterman, and I looked forward to that all day.
- Jerry Seinfeld
I’m an Urban Scholar.
- Michael Ward
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
- Dale Carnegie
Effective mission statements balance the possible and the impossible.
- Jack Welch
The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
- John C. Maxwell
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep form meddling with them while they do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.
- Elon Musk
My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We’re professionals. That’s what we do. I don’t give a damn about the short-term market implications.
- Stephen Wynn
Education and the Internet must go hand in hand, … It will serve as one of the great equalizers.
- John Chambers
The successful leader must plan his work, and work his plan. A leader who moves by guesswork, without practical, definite plans, is comparable to a ship without a rudder. Sooner or later he will land on the rocks.
- Napoleon Hill
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
- Elon Musk
I don’t know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
- Sam Walton
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
- Bill Gates
Most of the fans have ideas about their perfect phone. But many of them can’t do it because building a phone is tough. So they would give us feedback about the features that they think should be included in our next model. And if we incorporated that in our new phone, they will share the good news with their friends.
- Lei Jun
I’m a pretty conservative guy. But for some reason in business, I have always been pretty driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where we’ve been. On the one hand, in the community, I really am an establishment kind of guy; on the other hand, in the marketplace, I have always been a maverick who enjoys shaking things up and creating a little anarchy. And sometimes the establishments made me mad…
- Sam Walton
Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas Edison
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
- Seth Godin
They must be plans for learning rather than plans for implementation.
- Clayton M. Christensen
It’s about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it’s Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it’s going to be, ‘Storyteller.’
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money
- Warren Buffett
Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.’ That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.
- Dale Carnegie
Colleges are the equivalent of the subprime mortgage lenders who…
- Brian Tracy
Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
- Seth Godin
We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
- Warren Buffett
Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you’re doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they’re hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.
- Seth Godin
The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise – a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.
- Lakshmi Mittal
Role play with yourself to answer questions to a cynic, optimist, and be able play devil’s advocate.
- Maurice Kanbar
This is the day of dramatization. Merely stating a truth isn’t enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship. The movies do it. Television does it. And you will have to do it if you want attention.
- Dale Carnegie
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
- John D. Rockefeller
It’s always darkest before the dawn.
- Anonymous
I’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
- Elon Musk
In short, I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
- Dale Carnegie
Mr. Carnegie’s Master Mind group consisted of a staff of approximately 50 men, with whom he surrounded himself, for the definiteness purpose of manufacturing and marketing steel. He attributed his entire fortune to the POWER he accumulated through this Master Mind…Great POWER CAN BE ACCUMULATED THROUGH NO OTHER PRINCIPLE.
- Napoleon Hill
It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
- Winston Churchill
Successful people are all dreamers quote
- Brian Tracy
They were going to get it all right the first time right… Open to change.
- Jack Dorsey
You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.
- Seth Godin
I’m not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
- Vagit Alekperov
You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.
- Jerry Seinfeld
The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I’m wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.
- Ray Dalio
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill
As an entrepreneur, remove obstacles for your team. If there is anything that is holding the team back, get it out of the way.
- David Nilssen
Weed out the bad fits right away
- Tony Hsieh
We did no designs there, no breadboarding, no prototyping, no planning of products. We did no manufacturing there. The garage didn’t serve much purpose, except it was something for us to feel was our home. We had no money. You have to work out of your home when you have no money.
- Steve Wozniak
I believe we are in at least a two-quarter slowdown.
- John Chambers
I will everyday as just a blow from my blade against a mighty oak…strike until it falls quote.
- Og Mandino
Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.
- Winston Churchill
We’ve got to give people room to have a bad day.
- Joel Olsteen
The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.
- Michael Bloomberg
She said, ‘My family is OK, John, but we lost everything.
- John Chambers
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, and do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
Extraordinary benefits also accrue to the tiny majority with the guts to quit early and refocus their efforts on something new.
- Seth Godin
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
We will be one of the most productive residential developers in China in the next few years.
- Lee Shau Kee
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
- Napoleon Hill
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don’t laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that’s not real laughter.
- Steve Martin
Most companies that are great at something – like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores – do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.
- Reed Hastings
The secret of his success? I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
- Dale Carnegie
As a group, we believe that education is extremely important for ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren. We spend heavily for the educations of our offspring.
- Thomas J Stanley
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
- Bruce Lee
We’ll see how that evolves. Obviously, it doesn’t mean we’ll just be willing to do anything that’s requested of us.
- Sergey Brin
Out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
- Ben Horowitz
The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
He climbs highest who helps another up.
- Zig Ziglar
The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
- Bill Gates
there has never been a better time for testing the uncommon.
- Timothy Ferriss
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn’t exactly been one of moderation.
- Donald Trump
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
Stories let us lie to ourselves. And those lies satisfy our desires.
- Seth Godin
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
- Henry Ford
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
- Seth Godin
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
Most people have ‘one way’ brains—they acquire information and do nothing. Guerillas have ‘two way’ brains—they obtain relevant information and act on it.
- Jay Conrad Levinson
If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you’ll develop skills that other professionals don’t have.
- Steve Wozniak
The trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.
- Peter Thiel
Intentional Dishonesty.
- Napoleon Hill
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
- Charles M. Schwab
My God, these guys don’t even know what the return-on-investment will be on this thing.
- James C. Collins
First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
- Dale Carnegie
