The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning, and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.
- Og Mandino
Notable Quotables
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda
Soon is not as good as now.
- Seth Godin
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
- Steve Martin
A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
- Donald Trump
I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.
- Elon Musk
Success is doing what you want, where you want, when you want, with whom you want and as much as you want.
- Tony Robbins
People are always coming up to me and saying, ‘I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.’ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.
- Bill Gates
The smartest business decision you can make is to hire qualified people. Bringing the right people on board saves you thousands, and your business will run smoothly and efficiently.
- Brian Tracy
I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.
- Jack Dorsey
Do what you want to do. Do what you like to do.
- Lei Jun
My two primary areas of focus have been open-space conservation and education, and I expect those to remain my priorities in the future. The Irvine open space and parklands provide serenity and balance to our unique Orange County lifestyle.
- Donald Bren
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.
- Andrew Carnegie
God is a good God, and He gives good things to his children. No matter who has denigrated you or how much pain you’ve experienced in life, no matter how many setbacks you have suffered, you cannot allow yourself to accept that as the way life is supposed to be. No, God has better things in store for you. You must reprogram your mind with God’s word; change that negative, defeated self-image, and start seeing yourself as winning, coming out on top. Start seeing that marriage as restored. See your business as flourishing. See your children as enjoying the good things of God. You must see it through your eyes of faith, and then it will begin to happen.
- Joel Olsteen
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
- Dale Carnegie
The breadth and maturity of our own businesses is allowing us to weather the prevailing storms.
- Cheng Yu-tung
It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
- Jack Welch
I’m not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
- Vagit Alekperov
Well, it’s the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
- Russell Simmons
The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability… When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.
- Howard Schultz
I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was… an arctic wilderness.
- Steve Martin
Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.
- Bill Gates
Who you are, is who you attract.
- John Maxwell
Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
- Winston Churchill
That was a great day in my life! Your time is too valuable to worry about pleasing everyone else or making them happy. I know people who spend more time worrying about what others think about them than they do focusing on their own dreams and goals. You’ve got to get free from that.
- Joel Olsteen
I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.
- Joel Olsteen
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
- Dale Carnegie
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
- Winston Churchill
The polar opposite business cliché warns that “the best product doesn’t always win.
- Peter Thiel
Any great founders need to get out of the way of the company.
- Jack Dorsey
When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies.
- Ben Horowitz
What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn’t matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn’t matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method.
- Timothy Ferriss
I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
- Donald Trump
I’m born into the cycle of giving that we’re all born into, and I recognize it. So just because something is a good business, I’m not a business guy. I’m a creative guy.
- Russell Simmons
The economy is like a machine.
- Ray Dalio
Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.
- Peter Thiel
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
- Bill Gates
A smart, motivational good manager can work what some outsiders call Wal-Mart magic with folks everywhere. It make take more time. You may have to sift through more people, and you may have to become more skilled with your hiring practices. But I truly believe that people anywhere will eventually respond to the same sorts of motivational techniques we use, if they are treated right and are given the opportunities to be properly trained. If you are good to people, and fair with them, and demanding of them, they will eventually decide you’re on their side.
- Sam Walton
It’s easy to dream about it … Much harder to execute it ….Work!
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Legacy is greater than currency.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
You have to learn to follow your heart. You can’t let other people pressure you into being something that you’re not. If you want God’s favor in your life, you must be the person He made you to be, not the person your boss wants you to be, not even the person your parents or your husband wants you to be. You can’t let outside expectations keep you from following your own heart.
- Joel Olsteen
The Overseas Chinese habit is to save a lot and make a lot of friends.
- Lee Shau Kee
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
- Napoleon Hill
Ebooks had to happen.
- Jeff Bezos
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love — He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us — nature did it all — not the gods of the religions.
- Thomas Edison
It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
- Warren Buffett
You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.
- Oprah Winfrey
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- General George S. Patton
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
- Jeff Bezos
The customer reaction to Dell going private has been a lot more positive than I would have ever imagined. Customers see it as – ‘You don’t have to be distracted. Now you can totally focus on your business.’ So they see it as a positive.
- Michael Dell
Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.
- Joel Olsteen
If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you—like a fever.
- Sam Walton
So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
- Oprah Winfrey
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
- Peter Drucker
When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
- Bill Gates
I can’t imagine a day without coffee. I can’t imagine!
- Howard Schultz
Trust but Verify.
- Ronald Reagan
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
Well, yes, I’ve fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it’s always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
- Donald Trump
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they’re having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we’re doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
- Larry Page
The Group is rapidly increasing its activities in Mainland China, where it now has projects ranging from landmark commercial developments in the major cities of Beijing and Shanghai to massive residential schemes in the second-tier cities.
- Lee Shau Kee
I never wanted to be an entrepreneur. I actually wanted to be Bruce Lee.
- Jack Dorsey
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
Getting over the war was biggest adversity I have ever faced.
- Jack Nadel
Technological advance seemed to accelerate automatically, so the Boomers grew up with great expectations but few specific plans for how to fulfill them.
- Peter Thiel
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
- Napoleon Hill
A business that looks orderly says to your customer that your people know what they’re doing.
- Michael Gerber
I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort.
- Sergey Brin
Would you believe that in 2011 and 2012, Nigeria paid $30 billion in subsidy, money which would have been used to build at least 20 refineries?
- Aliko Dangote
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
- Thomas Edison
Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
- Winston Churchill
If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are … a different game you should play.
- Yoda
The definition of commerce is the activity between buyers and sellers.
- Jack Dorsey
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- Winston Churchill
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
- Arnold Glasow
When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.
- Steve Wozniak
Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life…do that.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don’t believe in climate change – they think oil will last forever.
- Elon Musk
You spend so much time in the world of virtual that the actual – which nothing is more actual than stand-up – it’s a painful experience for the audience, and the comedian a lot of time – we miss that.
- Jerry Seinfeld
You are here today because of a decision you made yesterday.
- Bryan Smith
Apple has a complex suite of proprietary technologies, both in hardware (like superior touchscreen materials) and software (like touchscreen interfaces purpose-designed for specific materials).
- Peter Thiel
It’s no fun to protest on an empty stomach.
- Michael Bloomberg
It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.
- Joel Olsteen
I’ve worked very hard, but my life’s always been fun.
- Reed Hastings
Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You’re the only one who can do it permanently.
- Zig Ziglar
I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.
- Steve Wozniak
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
- Bill Gates
Fact is, the first 100 years of our country’s history were about who could build the biggest, most efficient farm. And the second century focused on the race to build factories. Welcome to the third century, folks. The third century is about ideas.
- Seth Godin
Level 5 leaders display a workmanlike diligence – more plow horse than show horse.
- James C. Collins
Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don’t like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this – it hurts too much.
- Donald Trump
Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
- Seth Godin
Our economy now rewards artists far more than any other economy in history ever has.
- Seth Godin
It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.
- Joel Olsteen
We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that’s the easiest part of the game,
- Jack Welch
I’m bored with it all.
- Winston Churchill
There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.
- Michael Bloomberg
Write like you talk. Often.
- Seth Godin
