One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
- Winston Churchill
Notable Quotables
I don’t yell at people, I don’t mistreat people. I don’t talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.
- Oprah Winfrey
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
- Zig Ziglar
In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice Doggie until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
I think Bible principles are principles for life.
- Joel Olsteen
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
- Jack Welch
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
- Winston Churchill
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
- Dale Carnegie
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.
- Warren Buffett
The Internet will help achieve friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
- Bill Gates
You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.
- Seth Godin
When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America – a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image; a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee.
- Howard Schultz
I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.
- Sara Blakely
No company has a culture, every company is a culture.
- Peter Thiel
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
An Enemy Called Average
- Jim Collins
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
Gain alignment every step of the way. Again, no involvement means no committment. Skip a layer and you will ultimately pay the price.
- David Novak
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
- Dale Carnegie
I’m born into the cycle of giving that we’re all born into, and I recognize it. So just because something is a good business, I’m not a business guy. I’m a creative guy.
- Russell Simmons
My friend didn’t understand what it means to be in the world, to be present and aware.
- Seth Godin
I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
I’m skeptical that the novel will be ‘re-invented.’
- Jeff Bezos
A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
- Nolan Bushnell
Success doesn’t make you and failure doesn’t break you.
- Zig Ziglar
The squeaky wheel always getting the grease.
- James Taylor
Thinking back to old-time computer programming in the days before programming languages supported internationalization, we used to have to “internationalize” our code. We called this internationalization process “I18N” for short (localization was L10N), which meant I followed by eighteen letters followed by N.
- Ben Horowitz
We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
- Winston Churchill
The best ideas in a company are the ones that people come up with themselves because then they really own their ideas and are committed to making them work. – David Novak CEO of YUM Brands
- David Novak
Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I’d do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.
- Steve Martin
It doesn’t hurt to ask Actually, it does hurt. It does hurt to ask the wrong way, to ask without preparation, to ask without permission. It hurts because you never get another chance to ask right.
- Seth Godin
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
- Ray Kroc
Many companies today are reducing hours of full-time people to get under the minimum so they don’t have to pay health care costs. I just shake my head because that’s not going to build long-term value and trust with your people.
- Howard Schultz
In order to become rich, you need to learn to build systems that can work without you. .
- Robert Kiyosaki
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
- Napoleon Hill
it was necessary to bait the hook to suit the fish.
- Dale Carnegie
We’re working toward the ability for all Cisco devices to work together and communicate with each other to stop attacks. The idea is that one device can warn another device of a threat.
- John Chambers
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man’s character.
- Thomas Edison
Humans are distinguished from other species by our ability to work miracles. We call these miracles technology.
- Peter Thiel
The customer reaction to Dell going private has been a lot more positive than I would have ever imagined. Customers see it as – ‘You don’t have to be distracted. Now you can totally focus on your business.’ So they see it as a positive.
- Michael Dell
I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference.
- Russell Simmons
I believe that success can be measured in the number of uncomfortable conversations you’re willing to have.
- Timothy Ferriss
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
My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx.
- Sara Blakely
What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there’s so many moments in your life where you have these dreams, and people are trying to protect you, and they say, perhaps, friends, family, parents sometimes, they don’t agree with it, they think, ‘This is just too high of a hurdle.’ And I don’t agree with that.
- Howard Schultz
You may think you’re getting the short end of the stick, but when it’s all said and done, God will make sure that you don’t lose anything truly valuable. Moreover, He’ll make sure you get your just reward. Your responsibility is to remain calm and peaceable even when those around you are not.
- Joel Olsteen
The problem with common sense is that it’s not really that common. – David Novak CEO of Yum! Brands
- David Novak
On John D. Rockefeller and the ideal entrepreneur: He embodied all its virtues of thrift, self-reliance, hard work, and unflagging enterprise.
- Ron Chernow
Don’t just park money in the bank.
- Lee Shau Kee
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
- Alexander Graham Bell
The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
- Jeff Bezos
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see and who sees before others see.
- Leroy Eimes
I DECLARE that God has a great plan for my life. He is directing my steps. And even though I may not always understand how, I know my situation is not a surprise to God. He will work out every detail to my advantage. In His perfect timing, everything will turn out right. This is my declaration.
- Joel Olsteen
The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.
- John C. Maxwell
God always wants us to be growing.
- Joel Olsteen
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
- Theodore Roosevelt
When you have an understanding of how someone else lives, the less likely it is that you conflict with them.
- Jack Dorsey
If you learn to pray bold prayers… it allows God to do big things in your life.
- Joel Olsteen
Anytime you look at anything that’s considered artistic, there’s a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can’t exist without it.
- Steve Martin
The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn’t thought of before and that aren’t talked about in the news all the time.
- Steve Wozniak
It doesn’t matter how many people you offend, as long as you’re getting your message to your consumers. I say to those people who do not want to offend anybody: You are going to have a very, very difficult time having meaningful advertising.
- Phil Knight
Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.
- Elon Musk
Every day were saying, ‘How can we keep this customer happy?’ How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don’t, somebody else will.
- Bill Gates
To say that there are no secrets left today would mean that we live in a society with no hidden injustices.
- Peter Thiel
Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn’t. It’s just the opposite. What I think is brutal and false kindness is keeping people around who aren’t going to grow and prosper. There’s no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don’t belong – just when the options are limited and they’re putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.
- Jack Welch
I look at Facebook as being more conscientious about operator concerns, we are not 100 percent there, but we are finding consensus.
- Jon Fredrik Baksaas
Quite or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
- Seth Godin
A definite view, by contrast, favors firm convictions. Instead of pursuing many-sided mediocrity and calling it “well-roundedness,” 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. This is not what young people do today, because everyone around them has long since lost faith in a definite world. No one gets into Stanford by excelling at just one thing, unless that thing happens to involve throwing or catching a leather ball.
- Peter Thiel
Hard feelings pass. Don’t suffer fools or you’ll become one.
- Timothy Ferriss
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
- Steve Wozniak
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.
- Steve Ballmer
In the U.S. there are many people willing to work on $9 per hour, which is causing Tasmania to lose its famous apple industry and Australia to import more and more of its fruit and food from lower cost countries. In fact, all over Australia there are warning signs of us killing or restricting our own industries.
- Gina Rinehart
If you want to spend time saying this is cool, you’re going to get your ass kicked.
- Phil Knight
People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
- Bill Gates
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.
- Lakshmi Mittal
A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate
- Seth Godin
Heroes always come from young people.
- Cheng Yu-tung
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
- John C. Maxwell
Man’s only limitation within reason lies in his development and use of his imagination
- Napoleon Hill
Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.
- Bill Gates
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
- Zig Ziglar
Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.
- Nelson Mandela
Try to maximize the number of people that can benefit from an individual contribution.
- Lee Shau Kee
The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
- Bill Gates
Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success.
- Dale Carnegie
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it’s a lie and they’re protected if the person’s famous or it’s a company.
- Steve Wozniak
How can I create something that critics will criticize?
- Seth Godin
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn’t always where you want to use it, and it isn’t always when you want to use it.
- Bill Gates
I felt that it’s best just to be as transparent as possible.
- Rupert Murdoch
God, Family, Country.
- Zig Ziglar
What we want to watch is whether this is a short-term bump or not.
- John Chambers
See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.
- Joel Olsteen
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
- John D. Rockefeller
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
- Reid Hoffman
