About 80% of our locations are second-generation. In other words, the building used to be, say, a Wal-Mart that moved out to become a Super Wal-Mart, or a Kmart that closed. It seems that such a site becomes available almost every year in every city.
- David Green
Notable Quotables
I probably have about four or five cups of coffee a day. I make myself an espresso macchiato when I wake, which is a shot of espresso and just a dollop of steamed milk. Then, if I’m going to do some work at home, I would make myself a French press. It’s the best way to make conventional coffee.
- Howard Schultz
When completed the new facility will have the capacity to accommodate approximately 3,000 staff.
- John Chambers
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Key to helping poor is to not be poor.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.
- Napoleon Hill
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
Every crowd has a silver lining.
- P.T. Barnum
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill
Cherish your dreams as they are the children of your soul… –
- Napoleon Hill
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.
- Henry Ford
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
- Thomas Edison
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.
- Winston Churchill
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident…. Almost none of my inventions were derived in that manner. They were achieved by having trained myself to be analytical and to endure and tolerate hard work.
- Thomas Edison
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
- Sam Walton
If you take someone who lacks the experience and the know-how but has the real desire and the willingness to work his tail off to get the job done, he’ll make up for what he lacks. And that proved true nine times out of ten. It was one way we were able to grow so fast.
- Sam Walton
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
If I had to do it over again, I would have done the same but earlier. It is never too early to start something. The sooner you begin, the sooner you get your experience.
- Warren Buffett
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
- Winston Churchill
“Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.”
- Sam Walton
What has sustained us through these years? Trust. Dedication. Discipline.
- Cheng Yu-tung
I’ve traveled around the world, and what’s so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences.
- Howard Schultz
Music plays a very important role in my life. I’m a frustrated musician. I play the drums.
- Ronald Perelman
If you don’t have ambition, you should not be alive.
- Aliko Dangote
First, 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
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
- Napoleon Hill
It took Flickr two years to reach the milestone of 100 million uploaded pictures. It took Instagram eight months
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
- Sam Walton
Marketing is a contest for people’s attention.
- Seth Godin
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.
- Dale Carnegie
You think Yoda stops teaching, just because his student does not want to hear? A teacher Yoda is. Yoda teaches like drunkards drink, like killers kill.
- Yoda
People of excellence go the extra mile to do what’s right.
- Joel Olsteen
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
- Henry Ford
All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
- Ray Kroc
I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.
- Bill Gates
I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am an investor.
- Warren Buffett
If you are a prospective entrepreneur with the desire to start and build a visionary company but have not yet taken the plunge because you don’t have a great idea,” we encourage you to lift from your shoulders the burden of the great-idea myth. Indeed, the evidence suggests that it might be better to not obsess on finding a great idea before launching a company. Why? Because the great-idea approach shifts your attention away from seeing the company as your ultimate creation.
- James C. Collins
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
- Ben Horowitz
Successful heretics create their own religions….You can recognize the need for faith in your idea, you can find the tribe you need to support you, and yes, you can create a new religion around your faith. Steve Jobs did it on purpose at Apple and Phil Knight is famous for doing it at Nike.
- Seth Godin
Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.
- Apostle Paul
When you do more than you’re paid for, eventually you’ll be paid for more than you do.
- Zig Ziglar
So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.
- Peter Drucker
We’re getting hurt, but I’m a long-term investor.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
You have enough people against you… be for yourself.
- Joel Olsteen
I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
- Bill Gates
A friend is a person before whom I may think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
- Larry Ellison
Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
- Joel Olsteen
Successful people think on paper.
- Brian Tracy
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.
- Og Mandino
You will either look back in life and say, I wish I had, or, I’m glad I did.
- Zig Ziglar
Establish a core value that drives the business and helps promote it in perpetuity.
- Ben Horowitz
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
- Thomas Edison
If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.
- Elon Musk
You have no ability, if you’re a financial institution and you’re threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
- Warren Buffett
I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.
- Joel Olsteen
Around the survivors a perimeter create.
- Yoda
From a global CEO and government leader perspective, we remain in a `show- me’ economy.
- John Chambers
The [Henderson] Group continuously strives to upgrade the quality of its development properties by applying new technologies and building materials to improve the efficiency and lower the cost of construction.
- Lee Shau Kee
I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage — leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.
- Warren Buffett
Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.
- Dale Carnegie
It’s clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.
- Seth Godin
Consensus decisions about executives almost always sway the process away from strength and toward lack of weakness.
- Ben Horowitz
She said, ‘My family is OK, John, but we lost everything.
- John Chambers
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
- Joel Olsteen
What you receive is directly connected to what you believe.
- Joel Olsteen
I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was… an arctic wilderness.
- Steve Martin
Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money
- Warren Buffett
If values do not affect daily life, they are not values.
- Marty St. George
While 9:00 to 5:00 and what happens in the job is important… what happens from 5:00 – 9:00 while you’re off the job is INFINITELY more important.
- Zig Ziglar
The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.
- Seth Godin
If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.
- Seth Godin
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
- Dale Carnegie
What’s also missing is a sense of relationship. People suffer in isolation from one another. In a world without purpose, without meaningful values, what have we to share but our emptiness, the needy fragments of our superficial selves? As a result, most of us scramble about hungrily seeking distraction, in music, in television, in people, in drugs. And most of all we seek things. Things to wear and things to do. Things to fill the emptiness. Things to shore up our eroding sense of self. Things to which we can attach meaning, significance, life. We’ve fast become a world of things. And most people are being buried in the profusion. What most people need, then, is a place of community that has purpose, order, and meaning. A place in which being human is a prerequisite, but acting human is essential. A place where the generally disorganized thinking that pervades our culture becomes organized and clearly focused on a specific worthwhile result. A place where discipline and will become prized for what they are: the backbone of enterprise and action, of being what you are intentionally instead of accidentally. A place that replaces the home most of us have lost. That’s what a business can do; it can create a Game Worth Playing.
- Michael Gerber
In the ’30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That’s not going to work today.
- Peter Thiel
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
In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don’t have that in the rocket business. There’s no Foxconn in the rocket business.
- Elon Musk
Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
- Russell Simmons
If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.
- Bill Gates
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino
In a start-up company where there are no processes in place to get things done, then everything that is done must be done by individual people–resources. In this circumstance, it would be risky to draft someone with no experience to do the job–because in the absence of processes that can guide people, experienced people need to lead. But in established companies where much of the guidance to employees is provided by processes, and is less dependent upon managers with detailed, hands-on experience, then it makes sense to hire or promote someone who needs to learn from experience.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
- Napoleon Hill
Focus on your people – Without employees and customers, your’re going nowwhere.
- David Green
When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would’ve had a chance. Because that’s where my real heart was.
- Steve Martin
When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.
- Herb Kelleher
Our goal is not to build a platform, it’s to be cross all of them.
- Mark Zuckerberg
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
- Og Mandino
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
- Oprah Winfrey
Religion is all bunk.
- Thomas Edison
In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.
- Jorge Paulo Lemann
Sales is a simple conversation where I ask you questions and I relate to your answers.
- Bryan Smith
The son has not caught me in bed for 50 years.
- Thomas Jefferson
This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It’s not politically viable; it’s not morally right; it’s just not going to happen.
- Michael Bloomberg
Luck Follows Persistence.
- Jim Collins
I love the presentation from the more flamboyant guy, who excitedly presents his plans.
- Jack Welch
California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks’ largest country, with almost 3,000 stores
- Howard Schultz
Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
- Seth Godin
I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.
- Bill Gates
Entrepreneurial skills and ability for sheer hard work will help Hong Kong re-orient its economy for future growth through a broad variety of strong and promising businesses.
- Cheng Yu-tung
