Within the Nasdaq as an example, I do believe that out of the top 100 companies … half of them will not be around five years from now.
- John Chambers
Notable Quotables
In the most minimal sense, the future is simply the set of all moments yet to come.
- Peter Thiel
Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.
- Jack Welch
The other buzzword that epitomizes a bias toward substitution is “big data.” Today’s companies have an insatiable appetite for data, mistakenly believing that more data always creates more value. But big data is usually dumb data. Computers can find patterns that elude humans, but they don’t know how to compare patterns from different sources or how to interpret complex behaviors. Actionable insights can only come from a human analyst (or the kind of generalized artificial intelligence that exists only in science fiction).
- Peter Thiel
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
- Thomas Edison
It’s just not right that so many things don’t work when they should. I don’t think that will change for a long time.
- Steve Wozniak
Your business plan is fluid, not concrete. Once you a build plan, the market place validates what works and what does not. Be flexible and evolve your business strategy.
- David Nilssen
And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret. Concentrate your energy, thoughts and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged in. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line; to lead in it. Adopt every improvement, have the best machinery and know the most about it.
- Andrew Carnegie
The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself.
- Joel Olsteen
Follow these five decision steps when hiring someone: Understand the job, consider three to five people, study candidates performance records to find their strengths, talk to the candidates’ colleagues about them, and once hired, explain the assignment to the new employee.
- Peter Drucker
Safari, so goody.
- Winston Churchill
Life is too short to be small.
- Benjamin Disraeli
An employer has no business with a man’s personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance, and nothing else. Any attempt by an employer to go beyond this is usurpation. It is an immoral as well as illegal intrusion of privacy.
- Peter Drucker
People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.
- Joel Olsteen
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
- Mark Zuckerberg
The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
- Timothy Ferriss
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
- John D. Rockefeller
When you network, your aim is to meet people who are going places in their lives. You want to meet people who are ahead of you in their careers and in their organizations. You want to meet people you can look up to with pride. You want to meet people who can be friends, guides and mentors.
- Brian Tracy
Failing forward” is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.
- John C. Maxwell
We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
- Larry Ellison
I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.
- Reid Hoffman
Doing the wrong thing daily, compounds over time.
- John C. Maxwell
Is it really necessary to work like a slave to live like a millionaire?
- Timothy Ferriss
greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.
- James C. Collins
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
- Oprah Winfrey
Hope is the engine of your attitude, and your attitude determines your altitude.
- Zig Ziglar
If you’re a Wal-Mart of a Meijer you can draw the shoppers without using signs to advertise your specials, … But when you’re a little guy, you really depend on those signs.
- Michael Ward
Winners Evaluate Themselves In A Positive Manner And Look For Their Strengths As They Work To Overcome Weaknesses.
- Zig Ziglar
My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
- Jack Welch
Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
- Bill Gates
The abundance mindset makes it easier to be graceful.
- Seth Godin
Government shouldn’t tell you whom to marry.
- Michael Bloomberg
Making it good at scale means admitting that it must be different and embracing the changes that you’ll need to make to keep things from falling apart.
- Ben Horowitz
People are afraid of failure – they don’t like to work so hard and have people keep saying, ‘No.’ I think that’s what people fear most.
- Russell Simmons
If there’s a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we’ll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we’re going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother’s house that night for dinner.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
- Seth Godin
You simply cannot manage people to better performance if you do not give candid, consistent feedback through a system that is loaded with integrity
- Jack Welch
No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up. God sees your resolve. He sees your determination. And when you do everything you can do, that’s when God will step in and do what you can’t do.
- Joel Olsteen
At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.
- Lakshmi Mittal
Common Core is a big win for education.
- Bill Gates
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
- Og Mandino
What options expensing will determine is job creation and job loss, … This is why we are debating it so strongly and I’m proud to champion it.
- John Chambers
People who are using it to sell things on Craigslist to holding garage sales – campaigns – the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign both used Square to raise funds.
- Jack Dorsey
To be sure, real differences of opinion existed between the groups. Compared to pro-life participants, pro-choice participants had more favorable personal attitudes toward the pro-choice issues and less favorable attitudes toward the pro-life issues, and vice versa.
- John Chambers
I will everyday as just a blow from my blade against a mighty oak…strike until it falls quote.
- Og Mandino
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
- John F. Kennedy
Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.
- Zig Ziglar
Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.
- Bill Gates
Even today few businessmen understand that research, to be productive, has to be the “disorganizer,” the creator of a different future and the enemy of today. In most industrial laboratories, “defensive research” aimed at perpetuating today, predominates.
- Peter Drucker
The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.
- Winston Churchill
Even if we laid off 100 percent of the employees, the infrastructure costs would still kill us without a sharper sales ramp.
- Ben Horowitz
THE MOST CONTENTIOUS question in business is whether success comes from luck or skill.
- Peter Thiel
The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
- Bill Gates
My principal business consists of giving commercial value to the brilliant, but misdirected, ideas of others…. Accordingly, I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
- Thomas Edison
There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
- Bill Gates
Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”, that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
- Peter Drucker
We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas Edison
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.
- Jeff Bezos
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.
- Bill Gates
Americans believe cotton is best, but we’ve invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
- Tadashi Yanai
most cold calls didn’t get to the intended person for one reason: gatekeepers. If I simply made all my calls from 8:00–8:30 A.M. and 6:00–6:30 P.M., for a total of one hour, I was able to avoid secretaries and book more than twice as many meetings.
- Timothy Ferriss
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who’s going to build.
- Larry Ellison
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is interest paid before it’s due.
- Zig Ziglar
Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
- Zig Ziglar
Management will endeavour to actively encourage staff to broaden their experiences and job knowledge for extensive application in the process of improving the Group’s operational and competitive performance. Combined with our strengths in both entrepreneurial spirit and managerial professionalism, this would result in the creation of a leading edge honed in a relentless drive for operational excellence in the Group’s future pursuits.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Don’t sit around depressed and discouraged. Get a new vision for your life.
- Joel Olsteen
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
- John D. Rockefeller
Too often, that solution is nothing more than adding another layer. What you should be doing is going to the source of the problem to fix it, and sometimes that requires shooting the culprit,
- Sam Walton
If You Want to Gather Honey, Don’t Kick Over the Beehive.
- Dale Carnegie
Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you’ll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it’s twice the efficiency of a Prius.
- Elon Musk
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
- Bill Gates
No comment’ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
- Winston Churchill
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs
All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.
- Winston Churchill
If it’s a good idea, someone has already probably thought about it first.
- Jack Nadel
Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? I will speak ill of no man,” he said, … and speak all the good I know of everybody.
- Dale Carnegie
Buddha said: ‘Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love,’ and a misunderstanding is never ended by an argument but by tact, diplomacy, conciliation and a sympathetic desire to see the other person’s viewpoint.
- Dale Carnegie
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
As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies. At my companies, our position is that we hire someone in spite of an MBA, not because of one.
- Elon Musk
I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage — leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.
- Warren Buffett
I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.
- Michael Bloomberg
The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.
- Elon Musk
No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you’ll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.
- Joel Olsteen
Vertical progress is harder to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done.
- Peter Thiel
9 out of ten new businesses fail in the first five years.
- Robert Kiyosaki
You have no ability, if you’re a financial institution and you’re threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
- Warren Buffett
If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business—no matter how good the product.
- Peter Thiel
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. Now I am.
- Elon Musk
I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.
- Larry Ellison
As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
- John C. Maxwell
Actresses are kind of a little crazy.
- Russell Simmons
Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?
- Zig Ziglar
At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn’t matter as much to us. We care about great work.
- Reed Hastings
There is no more important economic policy issue today than helping our nation remain the global innovation leader. To do this, our leadership must focus on an aggressive agenda to support math and science education, patent litigation reform, healthcare information technology, and research and development. We thank President Bush for his leadership and urge all members of Congress to address these issues in a comprehensive fashion to get the job done.
- John Chambers
es it’s thinner, but I wanted storage. I don’t have broadband at home, and you can’t get great broadband connection in hotels, so I carry all my personal media in the iPad. So I was hoping Apple has a 256GB iPad. I was hoping for more storage so I could put every episode of Big Bang Theory on my iPad. So I emailed my wife and said ‘nope, I don’t want one of those.
- Steve Wozniak
You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
- Joel Olsteen
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
Do it. Try it. Fix it.
- Sam Walton
My supply of Scotch caution never has been small; but I was apparently something of a daredevil now and then to the manufacturing fathers of Pittsburgh. They were old and I was young, which made all the difference.
- Andrew Carnegie
