Notable Quotables

Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world’s fastest growing luxury yacht markets.

- Wang Jianlin

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

- Warren Buffett

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

- Jack Ma

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

- Thomas Edison

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

- Winston Churchill

Hay una divinidad que forja nuestros fines, por mucho que queramos alterarlos.

- Dale Carnegie

I’ve always thought if we don’t want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don’t enforce them.

- Michael Bloomberg

One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.

- Herb Kelleher

I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.

- Howard Schultz

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that’s really powerful.

- Reid Hoffman

[On Twitter] This company is bigger than any individual.

- Jack Dorsey

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention…. Its their ‘ideas’ that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as ‘more of a sponge than an inventor….’

- Thomas Edison

American running shoes were still made by offshoots of the tire companies, cheap and terrible. They cost five bucks and gave you blood blisters…

- Phil Knight

You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.

- Elon Musk

If you cannot persuade people to do things, you simply will not be a success because you are not an island unto yourself. Everything in life is about persuading people to do what you want them to do.

- David Robinson

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

- Henry Ford

I wanted to be an artist. They see the world in a very different way.

- Jack Dorsey

Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role… I’ve had people come up to me and say, ‘We want to remake ‘The Jerk’ with so and so.’ And I say, ‘Fine.’ It just doesn’t bother me. It’s an honor actually.

- Steve Martin

Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.

- Winston Churchill

Show a real interest in his problem and helping him solve it.

- Jack Nadel

Follow the GOLDEN RULE. Do unto others as you would have them do onto you.

- David Robinson

I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

- Elon Musk

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

- Patrick Soon-Shiong

At the start of each new day, remind yourself: I am talented. I am creative. I am greatly favored by God. I am equipped. I am well able. I will see my dreams come to pass.” Declare those statements by faith and before long, you will begin to see them in reality.

- Joel Olsteen

Those two priceless abilities: first, the ability to think. Second, the ability to do things in the order of their importance.

- Dale Carnegie

What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?

- Sam Walton

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

- Russell Simmons

Saying yes makes you fail to meet expectations of theobligation.

- David Nilssen

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

- Zig Ziglar

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

- Confucius

technology is important—you can’t remain a laggard and hope to be great. But technology by itself is never a primary cause of either greatness or decline.

- James C. Collins

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

- John C. Maxwell

Buoyant consumer confidence will continue to underpin retial spending and hence rental growth for shopping centres. The office market is expected to perform well on the back of tight supply being met by keen demand from companies looking for expansion opportunities.

- Lee Shau Kee

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

- Mark Twain

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

- Peter Drucker

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

- Elon Musk

I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

- Joel Olsteen

The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.

- Elon Musk

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.

- Michael Bloomberg

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

- Zig Ziglar

I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

- Donald Trump

I think the move by Mr. Greenspan was welcomed by everyone here.

- Jack Welch

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

- Donald Trump

Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money

- Warren Buffett

We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what’s happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option – not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others – of movies that are in the theater.

- Reed Hastings

Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

- Napoleon Hill

…The greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

- Seth Godin

Simon received the Nobel Prize in 1978 for his contribution to organizational decision making: It is impossible to have perfect and complete information at any given time to make a decision.

- Timothy Ferriss

Through the wisdom of its government leaders and the entrepreneurship of its private sector, India has rapidly risen to become a major force in the global economy, … Cisco believes that the Internet, and related technologies, will be a key enabler for India to achieve its goal of becoming a developed nation.

- John Chambers

Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.

- Gary Vaynerchuk

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

- Bill Gates

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.

- Richard Branson

If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.

- Gary Vaynerchuk

I’d learned the hard way that when hiring executives, one should follow Colin Powell’s instructions and hire for strength rather than lack of weakness.

- Ben Horowitz

We saw that a thousand results weren’t necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.

- Sergey Brin

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

- Andrew Carnegie

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

- Thomas Carlyle

Perfect target market for a startup is a small group of particular.

- Peter Thiel

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They’re mollycoddled; they’re highly privileged.

- Stephen Wynn

Christopher Colombus’ big mistake was that he was looking for a trade route to China, and accidentally bumped into America, the richest, most powerful country in the world.

- Robert Kiyosaki

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world

- George Washington Carver

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you’ve already figured out, demands initiative.

- Seth Godin

As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

- Thomas Edison

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

- Bill Gates

I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight, it took me 30 years.

- Aliko Dangote

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

Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that’s right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that’s better than television in terms of social connectivity.

- Reid Hoffman

Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

- Dale Carnegie

The oil patch pays good. They’re decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.

- Harold Hamm

Disruption is like an earthquake. Disruption has no purpose. It has not values. It has no organizing principle. It has no direction and it has no leadership… This is not what we want to bring into the world. What we want to bring into the world is revolution.

- Jack Dorsey

That’s what makes death so hard—unsatisfied curiosity.

- Beryl Markham

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

- Winston Churchill

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

- Joel Olsteen

Money has always been in politics. And I’m not sure you’d want money to be completely out of politics.

- Bill Gates

Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don’t know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

- Sam Walton

Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.

- Steve Jobs

If you believe in quality, you can’t just tell everybody We believe in quality! You’ve got to pay bonuses based on quality. You’ve got to let everyone in the organization know that they are being judged on quality.

- Jack Welch

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

- Oprah Winfrey

Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.

- Dale Carnegie

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

- Elon Musk

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

- Thomas Edison

If people look inward, they would see the opportunities for greatness.

- Aliko Dangote

Historians will record 1998 as a time when the impossible happened in Asia

- Cheng Yu-tung

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.

- Zig Ziglar

HE RICH DON’T WORK FOR MONEY The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

- Robert Kiyosaki

God wants us to live consistently, He wants us to enjoy every single day of our lives.

- Joel Olsteen

It encourages you to focus on your work and the generosity that comes from interacting with (and helping) your community.

- Seth Godin

People ask me what’s the most important function when you’re starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values that are going to endure. The discipline I believe so strongly in is H.R., and its the last discipline that gets funded.

- Howard Schultz

while you can buy your way to growth, you absolutely cannot buy your way to greatness.

- James C. Collins

Anyone who wants to change the world should be more humble.

- Peter Thiel

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