If you are nervous about making the jump or simply putting it off out of fear of the unknown, here is your antidote. Write down your answers to these questions, and keep in mind that thinking a lot will not prove as fruitful or as prolific as simply brain vomiting on the page. Write and do not edit – aim for volume. Spend a few minutes on each answer.1. Define your nightmare, the absolute worst that could happen if you did what you are considering.2. What steps could you take to repair the damage or get things back on the upswing, even if temporarily?3. What are the outcomes or benefits, both temporary and permanent, of more probably scenarios?4. If you were fired from your job today, what would you do to get things under financial control?5. What are you putting off out of fear?6. What is it costing you – financially, emotionally, and physically – to postpone action?7. What are you waiting for?
- Timothy Ferriss
Notable Quotables
The problems forced us to take a hard look at what we were doing, what was going wrong, what we were good at, and where we wanted to go.
- Phil Knight
What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.
- Bill Gates
Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.
- Bart Conner
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Abundance and scarcity In a society where value is created by the manufacture of goods or the allocation of limited resources, it’s not a surprise that organizations seek scarcity. We hesitate to share, because if I give you this, then I don’t have it any more. We erect barriers and create rules to make it difficult for some people to have access to these limited resources. While we don’t set out to become miserly, it’s an economic instinct, because what’s yours is no long mine. Even though we give lip service to sharing when kids show up for kindergarten classes, most of school is organized around the same ideas. We rank students, we cut players from the roster, we grade on a curve. Success, we teach, is scarce. Our new economy, though, is based on abundance, the abundance that comes from ideas and access. If I benefit when everyone knows my idea, then the more people I give the idea to, the better we all do. If I benefit when I earn a reputation leading, connecting and creating positive change, then I’ll benefit if I can offer these insights to anyone who can benefit from them. With an abundance mindset, we intentionally create goods that can be shared. It’s not based on our traditional factory-based economy, but it works now (in fact, it’s just about all that works)… engaging with the mesh, building communities that benefit from sharing resources instead of destroying them is a strategy that scales. With an abundance mindset, we create ideas and services that do better when people share.
- Seth Godin
The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
- Napoleon Hill
I do think – as self-serving as it sounds – that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company.
- Howard Schultz
We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
- Winston Churchill
Most good ideas are already out there, and to learn about them, all you have to do is ask the right people.
- David Novak
Don’t fight change; embrace it, and you will step into the fullness of what God has in store.
- Joel Olsteen
To all of us comes that moment in life when we are literally tapped on the shoulder to do a very special thing unique to ourselves and our talents. What a pity if that moment finds us unprepared.
- Winston Churchill
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- Steve Jobs
Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.
- Harvey Mackay
Rich is my word for someone who can afford to make choices, who has enough resources to do more than merely survive.
- Seth Godin
On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, ‘What God do you pray to?’ What beliefs do you hold?’
- Michael Bloomberg
Its never too late…to start heading in the right direction.
- Seth Godin
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
- Howard Schultz
My parents got one bedroom, my three sisters got the other bedroom, and my brother and I made do with a rollaway in the kitchen.
- David Green
If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.
- Ben Horowitz
In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can’t you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that’s different from a California textbook that’s different from a Massachusetts textbook. That’s very expensive.
- Bill Gates
I’ve always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they’re just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
- Steve Martin
You need to live every day like it could be your last.
- Joel Olsteen
Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.
- Ben Horowitz
To be willing to do new things you don’t think you’ll like requires you to prefer the unknown. Not just to tolerate it, but to prefer it. One way to achieve that is to set out to experience things you’re sure you won’t like. To have conversations that are frightening. Becoming generous beyond measure, just to see what happens. And most of all, setting out to fail. Failing helps you see how far is too far, failing helps remind you that failing isn’t fatal, and most of all, failing opens you up to succeeding.
- Seth Godin
Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.
- Donald Trump
As God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days.Why should you and I?
- Dr. Spencer Johnson
Never fear to negotiate, but never negotiate out of fear.
- Jack Nadel
Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it. “ 14. “Many of our best opportunities were created out of necessity.
- Sam Walton
Specifically, the following things that cause no trouble when you are small become big challenges as you grow: Communication Common knowledge Decision making.
- Ben Horowitz
Use what you have to run toward your best – that’s how I now live my life.
- Oprah Winfrey
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Intentional Dishonesty.
- Napoleon Hill
You can’t win an argument. You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.
- Dale Carnegie
Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
- Henry Ford
As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.
- Ben Horowitz
A startup is a team of people on a mission, and a good culture is just what that looks like on the inside.
- Peter Thiel
Just as ships are built to sail the seas and planes to fly the heavens, so is man created for a purpose.
- Zig Ziglar
America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
- Elon Musk
It’s the power of the brand. We’ve never formally advertised.
- Sara Blakely
We can schedule for it. Thursday, April 3rd, 3:05…start something. We can train for it, plan for it, announce it, and even hire for it. If initiating is as essential to the modern organization as it appears, we better be doing all of that and more.
- Seth Godin
I own my business. My business doesn’t own me.
- Cherie Ve Ard
We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.
- Michael Bloomberg
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.
- Dale Carnegie
Be a victor , not a victim.
- Joel Olsteen
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Success always demands a greater effort.
- Winston Churchill
We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.
- Walt Disney
There are things money can’t buy and hard work can’t win. One of them is happiness.
- Ray Kroc
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
- Bill Gates
Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
- Timothy Ferriss
The responsibility of the leader is to define reality and create hope.
- David Novak
I think Tim being in the Guard is great. I hope all of my kids join the military. It teaches them discipline and respect.
- Michael Ward
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
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
- Jack Welch
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
- Og Mandino
We all know now that the 747 became the flagship jumbo jet of the airline industry, but the decision looks much different from the perspective of the late 1960s. Yet—and this is the key point—Boeing was willing to make the bold move in the face of the risks. As in Boeing’s case, the risks do not always come without pain.
- James C. Collins
How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.
- Winston Churchill
Make your desires clear and reduce them to writing.
- Napoleon Hill
Lost time is never found again.
- Benjamin Franklin
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
- Napoleon Hill
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Victorious leaders, share an inability to accept defeat.
- Napoleon Hill
God can take what was meant for my harm and turn it around and use it to my advantage.
- Joel Olsteen
I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
- Jack Dorsey
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn – which is what life is all about.
- Oprah Winfrey
The problem with New Year’s resolutions – and resolutions to ‘get in better shape’ in general, which are very amorphous – is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn’t work. I don’t care if you’re a world-class CEO – you’ll quit.
- Timothy Ferriss
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader
Use money to make money. Save your ‘first bucket of gold.’ or small fortune – but then use it for investments. Don’t just park money in the bank.
- Lee Shau Kee
You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
- Warren Buffett
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
- Sam Walton
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
- Winston Churchill
Tip 29 – A good Accountant is not just a scorekeeper.
- Jack Nadel
Worrying about the past or the future isn’t productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.
- Harvey Mackay
Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.
- Elon Musk
In the early days, I really felt the pain of not being able to find information easily. I guess that helped me to develop an urge to write things like a search engine.
- Robin Li
If you are going to be successful, you must develop persistence. How do you do that? It is not easily condensed in one simple statement, but one thing you can be sure of is that your must define your purpose.
- Zig Ziglar
Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business – and you can leverage that knowledge.
- Harvey Mackay
ZERO TO ONE 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 local property market witnessed a slowdown following the 9-11 incident in the United States, under an environment of high unemployment and sustained deflation in Hong Kong. On the whole, property prices showed a slight decline as compared with the price levels recorded in the previous financial year.
- Lee Shau Kee
Put all of your eggs in one basket, watch that basket.
- Andrew Carnegie
we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.
- Joel Olsteen
Be friendly, but not so friendly, it’s creepy.
- Michael Levine
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.
- Ray Kroc
People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.
- Howard Schultz
If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.
- Jeff Bezos
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
- Napoleon Hill
People use so much more health care when they live longer.
- Michael Bloomberg
I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there’s one or two people and they say, ‘Great job, Mayor,’ that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn’t find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling – I think they should see the doctor.
- Michael Bloomberg
Quality is a cornerstone of the [Henderson] Group underpinning all our activities.
- Lee Shau Kee
A company is like a shark, it either has to move forward or it dies.
- Larry Ellison
Many a false step was made by standing still.
- Timothy Ferriss
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.
- Dale Carnegie
What one does easily, one does well.
- Andrew Carnegie
Business Coach Quotes: A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs
- Seth Godin
