Many brilliant people believe that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains, ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
- Peter Drucker
Notable Quotables
One of More of the Six Basic Fears.
- Napoleon Hill
Unwavering courage based upon knowledge of self, and of one’s occupation. No follower wishes to be dominated by a leader who lacks self-confidence and courage. No intelligent follower will be dominated by such a leader very long.
- Napoleon Hill
The Group also continues to be bullish for the long-term prospects for the property market in mainland China…
- Lee Shau Kee
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
- John D. Rockefeller
These two chefs will play an important role in managing the company’s growing appetites.
- Sergey Brin
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Results are gained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
- Peter Drucker
People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
- Elon Musk
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.
- Joel Olsteen
Document in writing every agreement or important conversation with suppliers and customers.
- Jack Nadel
You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‘Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.
- Joel Olsteen
It’s important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
- Sara Blakely
Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
- Reed Hastings
Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic
- Timothy Ferriss
This shows you are never too old to get surprised.
- Jack Welch
Nine out of ten businesses fail, so I came up with a foolproof plan — create ten businesses.
- Robert Kiyosaki
In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
- Bill Gates
If you do not see yourself as a winner, you cannot perform as a winner.
- Zig Ziglar
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known
- Walt Disney
The Group’s performance will continue to improve in future upon return of the local economy on an upward recovery track.
- Lee Shau Kee
The first rule of organizational design is that all organizational designs are bad.
- Ben Horowitz
In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government.
- Alexei Mordashov
When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good, you will not, hmmmm?
- Yoda
That’s an issue dear to my heart, because I was born in the Soviet Union during the communist era.
- Sergey Brin
Stop selling. Start helping.
- Zig Ziglar
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
- Martin Luther King Jr.
We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas Edison
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The challenge is this: training creative, independent, and innovative artists is new to us.
- Seth Godin
Being a CEO is the nuts! A whole jumble of thoughts come to mind: Over the top. Wild. Fun. Outrageous. Crazy. Passion. Perpetual Motion. The give and take. Meetings into the night. Incredible friendships. Fine wine. Celebrations. Great golf courses. Big decisions in the real game. Crises and pressure. Lots of swings. A few home runs. The thrill of winning and the pain of losing. It’s as good as it gets. You get paid a lot, but the real payoff is the fun…
- Jack Welch
Anything you’re interested in the world – whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop – they’re on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
- Jack Dorsey
With sustained recovery of the local economy, marked improvement in consumer spending and increasing tourist arrivals from Mainland China, these led to the expansion of certain local retail trades including cosmetics, audio-visual products and jewellery which in turn boosted the demand for retail shop spaces.
- Lee Shau Kee
Poor people ride the bus, because they value money more than time.
- Robert Kiyosaki
I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.
- Alisher Usmanov
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital – the world’s best talents and greatest ideas.
- Jack Welch
Lay out what you’re doing to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
- David Novak
I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
- Jack Dorsey
Always avoid the acute angle.
- Dale Carnegie
Timid salesmen have skinny kids.
- Zig Ziglar
The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places,
- Peter Thiel
When sales people don’t know what to do, they talk. The ordinary salesperson vomits the presentation onto the Buyer’s desktop.
- Jerry Vass
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
You can abuse me, you can strike me, so long as you let me have my own.
- Ron Chernow
When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.
- Bill Gates
I’m a genetic optimist.
- Jeff Bezos
Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
- Bill Gates
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
The Buck Stops Here
- Harry Truman
About HBO’s “Silicon Valley”: It’s a Good Show.
- Peter Thiel
In this sense, if nothing about our society changes for the next 100 years, then the future is over 100 years away.
- Peter Thiel
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The computer is a moron.
- Peter Drucker
Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.
- John C. Maxwell
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
- Thomas Edison
I don’t believe in saturation. We’re thinking and talking worldwide.
- Ray Kroc
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.
- Jeff Bezos
We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
- Bill Gates
When you expect your employees to act like adults, they generally do. If you treat them like children, then get ready for your company to turn into one big Barney episode.
- Ben Horowitz
It’s the moments where you feel most like hiding or dying that you can make the biggest difference as a CEO.
- Ben Horowitz
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses.
- Dale Carnegie
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I think when I was young, let’s call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That’s really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians.
- Steve Martin
Wanamaker learned this lesson early, but I personally had to blunder through this old world for a third of a century before it even began to dawn upon me that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don’t criticise themselves for anything no matter how wrong it may be.
- Dale Carnegie
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.
- Bill Gates
I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Insulation prevents you from making the change and finding the understanding you set out to achieve in the first place.
- Seth Godin
My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.
- Jerry Seinfeld
There is little success where there is little laughter.
- Andrew Carnegie
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
- Winston Churchill
When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
- Walt Disney
Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.
- Sergey Brin
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.
- Henry Ford
Do it. Try it. Fix it.
- Sam Walton
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
He has always been like this. His mind works ten times faster than everybody’s else’s. I mean he just gets going and stays two or three jumps ahead, and he’s quick to go with what’s on his mind. If he gets something in his mind that needs to be done – regardless of what else might have been planned – the new idea takes priority, and it has to be done now. Everybody has their angenda already scheduled, and then bang! He just calls a meeting on something. (on CEO leadership and management with speed)
- Loretta Boss Parker
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Managers will play every game in the book to avoid identifying their bottom 10. Sometimes they’ll sneak in people who were planning to retire that year or others who already have been told to leave the organization.
- Jack Welch
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.
- Winston Churchill
Statistics doesn’t work when the sample size is one.
- Peter Thiel
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
We got so much better so quickly it was hard to believe. We totally stood Kmart off in those small towns of ours. Almost from the beginning, they weren’t very successful at taking our customers away in Jeff City and Poplar Bluff. Once Kmart arrived, we worked even harder at pleasing our customers, and they stayed loyal. This gave us a great surge of confidence in ourselves. But at that time our sales were 5 percent of Kmart’s. (through competition) Wal-Mart has lowered the gross margin in retailing from around 35 percent in the early 60s to only 22 percent today.
- Sam Walton
I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus’ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.
- Joel Olsteen
It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, This sickness can’t take my life.” This cancer can’t defeat me.” No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.
- Joel Olsteen
I broke into an industry that was completely money-focused. Nobody was paying attention to the women and thinking about how these undergarments felt, or how they fit…All of a sudden I showed up and charged more for one pair than anybody can comprehendand women lined up in droves to buy them. I think I left the industry in show, but I really believed that we needed to make it better not cheaper.
- Sara Blakely
The skill sets it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, a successful marketer, or a relevant celebrity is a different skill set than you needed ten years ago, even though that was the skill set that mattered for decades.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Wrong Selection of A Mate In Marriage.
- Napoleon Hill
The question isn’t ‘What do we want to know about people?’ It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves?
- Mark Zuckerberg
What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
- Larry Page
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
- Ray Dalio
I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What’s the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
- Larry Page
Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.
- Ray Dalio
Make your desires clear and reduce them to writing.
- Napoleon Hill
You may not realize initially how many other opportunities are wrapped up inside the first one. After you go through the first door, you’ll then discover more doors automatically opening behind that one. One door leads you to another door, which leads to another door, and so one. It’s like ten other boxes packed inside one box. The initial door that God opens is your access to more opportunities. But you must be willing to walk through the first one to get to the other good things God has for you.
- George Foreman
Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
- Bill Gates
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
- Azim Premji
Without passion, you don’t have energy; without energy, you have nothing. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
- Donald Trump
Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations.
- Seth Godin
