Notable Quotables

I’m a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

- Donald Trump

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

- Thomas J Watson

Failure to deliver on committments is, in the end, unacceptable.

- Jack Welch

Where I get my energy is: ‘How can I make it better?’

- Sara Blakely

When a study was made a few years ago on runaway wives, what do you think was discovered to be the main reason wives ran away? It was lack of appreciation.

- Dale Carnegie

Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.

- Timothy Ferriss

Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.

- Dale Carnegie

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

- Dale Carnegie

Differentiate yourself! Why are you different? What’s important about you? Why does the customer need you?

- Sara Blakely

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn’t affect them.

- Azim Premji

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

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn’t care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

- Steve Martin

The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

- Ben Horowitz

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

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

- Elon Musk

I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump… I like that guy. I’ve been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.

- Jack Ma

The growth of the company and the license that Starbucks has is to participate in other food and beverage opportunities. We have a global business… and in many parts of the world, tea is much, much bigger than coffee, and we’re going to bring tea and bring our capability and our understanding of what we’ve done for coffee to tea.

- Howard Schultz

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.

- Ben Horowitz

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

- Mark Twain

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

- Napoleon Hill

The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.

- Walt Disney

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.’

- Richard Branson

You don’t make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you’re-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don’t know what’s going to happen.

- Michael Bloomberg

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

- Bill Gates

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

- Peter Drucker

With the addition of these volumes, our Gulf Coast region is off to a good start for 2006 in its effort to grow its production. Combined, all regions are now showing growth in both production and reserves which is very attractive, especially considering the organic strategy on which we have predominately focused.

- Dan Dinges

This isn’t stealing this is standing on the shoulders of giants.

- David Novak

I like winning. There’s also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

- Carl Icahn

Contrary to popular belief, the price of real estate does go down on occasion.

- Robert Kiyosaki

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

- Winston Churchill

the world belongs to the man or woman who got up today and did something

- Jim Stovall

Focus on your people – Without employees and customers, your’re going nowwhere.

- David Green

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.

- Thomas Edison

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.

- Arthur Golden

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

- Elon Musk

If your business is not a brand, it is just a commodity.

- Donald Trump

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

As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what’s going on, you’re very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you’re guaranteed to fail.

- Ben Horowitz

So what we do every Monday is review the whole business…I put out an agenda – 80% is the same as it was the last week, and we just walk down it every single week.

- Steve Jobs

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I’d try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, ‘This is the end.’ I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

- Rupert Murdoch

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

- Jeff Bezos

Many brilliant people believe that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains, ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

- Peter Drucker

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

- Henry Ford

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

- Winston Churchill

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

- Bill Gates

If you want to build lifelong, loyal friendships, if you want to build trust, learn to protect your family members and friends even when they make mistakes.

- Joel Olsteen

All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they’re all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul.

- Masayoshi Son

If you can discipline yourself to read, you can free up two years of your life for the good stuff!

- Seth Godin

Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat.

- James C. Collins

One of the things that school is for is to teach our children to understand and relish the idea of intellectualism, to develop into something more than a purpose-driven tool for the industrial state.

- Seth Godin

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

- Dale Carnegie

The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively. Forget “minimum viable products”—ever since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus group feedback or copying others’ successes.

- Peter Thiel

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.

- Thomas Edison

Every one of my positions cuts – out half the country. I’m pro-choice, I’m pro-gay rights, I’m pro-immigration, I’m against guns, I believe in Darwin.

- Michael Bloomberg

A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate

- Seth Godin

We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas Edison

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

- Jerry Seinfeld

Let’s do as General Eisenhower does: let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.

- Dale Carnegie

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

- Joel Olsteen

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

- Seth Godin

At the end of the day … Nexium is Nexium, Lipitor is Lipitor, drugs are drugs, and it shouldn’t matter that much who’s counting to 30.

- George Paz

I didn’t think I would come to this conclusion — but eventually I came to the conclusion that more information is better, even if it is not as full as we would like to see.

- Sergey Brin

If somebody’s going on your board, and you’re going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before.

- Ben Horowitz

Disruptive companies often pick fights they can’t win.

- Peter Thiel

The fastest and best way to build value for your business is to build your people

- Clay Clark

The breadth and maturity of our own businesses is allowing us to weather the prevailing storms.

- Cheng Yu-tung

In bad times and good, I have never lost my sense zest for life

- Walt Disney

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

- Steve Wozniak

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.”

- Sam Walton

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

- Steve Martin

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off.

- Thomas Edison

In my weekly staff meeting, I inserted an agenda item titled “What Are We Not Doing?

- Ben Horowitz

What has sustained us through these years? Trust. Dedication. Discipline.

- Cheng Yu-tung

Success is doing what you want, where you want, when you want, with whom you want and as much as you want.

- Tony Robbins

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. ‘Impeccable credentials’ means you’ve never lived outside the United States.

- Michael Bloomberg

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

- Bill Gates

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

- Elon Musk

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

- John D. Rockefeller

Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.

- Harvey Mackay

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

- Winston Churchill

Mrs. Carnegie and I had dinner at a friend’s house in Chicago. While carving the meat, he did something wrong. I didn’t notice it; and I wouldn’t have cared even if I had noticed it. But his wife saw it and jumped down his throat right in front of us. John,” she cried, watch what you are doing! Can’t you ever learn to serve properly!” Then she said to us: He is always making mistakes. He just doesn’t try.” Maybe he didn’t try to carve; but I certainly give him credit for trying to live with her for twenty years. Frankly, I would rather have eaten a couple of hot dogs with mustard—in an atmosphere of peace—than to have dined on Peking duck and shark fins while listening to her scolding.

- Dale Carnegie

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

- Napoleon Hill

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