Notable Quotables

Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires.

- Dale Carnegie

Un cambio de actitud Lo que diferencia a los individuos exitosos de aquellos que languidecen es exactamente lo mismo que separa a las organizaciones innovadoras y en crecimiento de aquellas que se estancan y mueren. Los ganadores han convertido la iniciativa en una pasión y en una práctica. Adelante, prepara una lista de las personas y organizaciones a las que admiras. Apuesto a que el séptimo imperativo es lo que las hace destacar. Como ves, el reto no consiste en perfeccionar tu capacidad de saber cuándo empezar o cuándo mantenerte al margen, sino en adoptar la costumbre de empezar.

- Seth Godin

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

- Timothy Ferriss

Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.

- Yoda

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you’re never off the hook.

- Steve Martin

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we’re in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There’s no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.

- Steve Ballmer

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

- Bill Gates

A healthy company culture encourages people to share bad news. A company that discusses its problems freely and openly can quickly solve them.

- Ben Horowitz

Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.

- Fujio Mitarai

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

- Peter Drucker

Do you know what that word reign means? It means, time in power.” God said we’re to reign how long? In life. That means as long as you’re alive that is your time in power.

- Joel Olsteen

A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.

- John D. Rockefeller

Backed by our conviction, we remain committed to investing wholeheartedly to improve the people’s living conditions, regardless of all uncertainties.

- Cheng Yu-tung

The maxim, “Nothing prevails but perfection,” may be spelled PARALYSIS.

- Winston Churchill

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

- Elon Musk

Anyone, even a child, can be taught to develop a positive mental attitude. The method is to repeat positive affirmations such as: Day by day, in every way, through the grace of God, I am getting better and better.

- Napoleon Hill

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

- Joel Olsteen

Every pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, but every optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill

Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean’s, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.

- Donald Bren

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

- Dale Carnegie

I thought ‘Borat’ was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn’t some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

- Steve Martin

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

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn’t allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in – if they could, they would do so.

- Bill Gates

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job – that just doesn’t make any sense to me. That can’t be the right answer.

- Larry Page

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

- George Soros

This shows you are never too old to get surprised.

- Jack Welch

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don’t believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you’re likely to have issues.

- Larry Page

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

- Thomas Edison

Never, give in! Never give in! Never, never, never… In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

- Winston Churchill

When overtaken with the temporay feelings of potential failure, burn all of your bridges of retreat, thus making retreat impossible.

- Napoleon Hill

Velocity and drive comes from your desire to achieve.

- Jim Cathcart

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

- Michael Bloomberg

An attributable HK$9,892 million worth of properties in Hong Kong was sold, an increase of 25% as compared with HK$7,895 million for the year before.

- Lee Shau Kee

Abe Lincoln once remarked that most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Dale Carnegie

What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination.

- Zig Ziglar

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

- Azim Premji

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

- Bill Gates

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 try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

- Joel Olsteen

The challenge is to focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work.

- Seth Godin

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

- Thomas Edison

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

- Steve Jobs

Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.

- Warren Buffett

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

- Dale Carnegie

Here’s to the crazy ones…The ones who see things differently. They push thehuman race forward. And while some may see them as thecrazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

- Jeff Bezos

This approach appeals to the media’s innate curiosity.Whereas a fastball stresses logic over emotion, the curveball stresses emotion over logic.

- Michael Levine

Just because you don’t announce your plan doesn’t mean you don’t have one.

- Herb Kelleher

Use what you have to run toward your best – that’s how I now live my life.

- Oprah Winfrey

CREATIVE MONOPOLY means new products that benefit everybody and sustainable profits for the creator. Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and a struggle for survival.

- Peter Thiel

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

- Peter Drucker

Jobs and businesses are just vehicles to get you from where you are to where you want to be.

- Clay Clark

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

- Confucius

You’re only as good as the people you hire.

- Ray Kroc

To me, this is about preserving history and making it available to everyone.

- Sergey Brin

What is the one sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

- Larry Page

I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.

- Andrew Carnegie

Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

- Oprah Winfrey

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

- Walt Disney

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

- John C. Maxwell

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

- Napoleon Hill

I like to live in the past. I don’t think people are going to get much fun in the future.

- Winston Churchill

Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.

- Yoda

Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas Edison

Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and do not waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal. Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do, and then, as the days go gliding away, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the element it needs. Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual . . . Thought is supreme. Preserve a right mental attitude – the attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer. To think rightly is to create. All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Carry your chin in and the crown of your head high. We are gods in the chrysalis.

- Dale Carnegie

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

- Bill Gates

In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

- Steve Wozniak

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

- Thomas Edison

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

- Oprah Winfrey

We have more than six and one-half times the level of wealth of our non-millionaire neighbors, but, in our neighborhood, these non-millionaires outnumber us better than three to one. Could it be that they have chosen to trade wealth for acquiring high-status material possessions?

- The Millionaire Next Door

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

- Bill Gates

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

- Winston Churchill

If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.

- George Foreman

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

- Bill Cosby

Sam hired me in 1970 as a district manager in charge of new store openings. He had eighteen Wal-Marts and some variety stores doing about $31 million a year. I moved my family and as the van was unloading furniture into our rented house, they called from the office and said, Can you set up this new store in Missouri? My wife, who had three babies and a moving van to deal with, helped me find some clothes and I left. I didn’t see her again for two weeks. Then there was a managers’ meeting so I didn’t see her again for two more weeks. It would be safe to say that in those days we all worked a minimum of 16 hours a day.

- Jack Shewmaker

Assetts put money in your pocket. Liabilities take money out of your pocket.

- Robert Kiyosaki

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

- Winston Churchill

I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last ended.

- Winston Churchill

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?”

- Ben Horowitz

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

- Bill Gates

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

- Winston Churchill

If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them—not that they are working for you.

- Sam Walton

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

- Og Mandino

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

- Albert Einstein

If you spend money on what you want, you’ll beg for what you need.

- T.D Jakes

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