Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
- Zig Ziglar
Notable Quotables
You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It’s easy.
- Dale Carnegie
If any of my competitors were drowning, I’d stick a hose in their mouth
- Ray Kroc
The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don’t think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.
- Hugh Jackman
Don’t count the things you do. Do the things that count.
- Zig Ziglar
We all know now that the 747 became the flagship jumbo jet of the airline industry, but the decision looks much different from the perspective of the late 1960s. Yet—and this is the key point—Boeing was willing to make the bold move in the face of the risks. As in Boeing’s case, the risks do not always come without pain.
- James C. Collins
Every moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.
- Peter Thiel
This is indicative of how quickly CEO caution can put the foot on the brake.
- John Chambers
Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed, A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden of weeds.
- John D. Rockefeller
Make youself necessary to someone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The construction arm of the Group always firmly adheres to the principle of ‘People is our priority’ and deploys a vast amount of resources to quality facilities and training of staff to ensure a safe and good working environment.
- Lee Shau Kee
If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you’re going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to ‘be different’.
- Larry Ellison
Fulfilling the vision of the Irvine Ranch master plan has been a lifetime dedication and lifetime passion, and I am hopeful the heritage of our Irvine stewardship will live on in many new ways.
- Donald Bren
Don’t sit around depressed and discouraged. Get a new vision for your life.
- Joel Olsteen
Branding is what people think about you before they even know you.
- Bryan Smith
I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that’s in my head.
- Steve Martin
Businesses often forget the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliever good service from unhappy employees.
- Tony Hsieh
Networking is one of the most valuable uses of your time in terms of return—and not just in monetary terms.
- Business Insider.com
I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I’ll come out of it refreshed and centered and that’s how I’ll feel and it’ll carry through the day.
- Ray Dalio
Stopped they must be; on this all depends. Only a fully-trained Jedi Knight, with the Force as his ally, will conquer Vader and his Emperor.
- Yoda
Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems before returning home.
- Aliko Dangote
The Internet will help achieve friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
- Bill Gates
By combining broadband Internet, phone and video services over a single cable line, we are taking a major step towards implementing future integrated data, voice and video telecommunications on a mass market scale.
- John Chambers
You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you’ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.
- Joel Olsteen
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
- Henry Ford
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth. Not going all the way, and not starting.
- Siddhartha Gautama
People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don’t like change. A bunch of people don’t like the Olympics now because we’ve added skateboarding… We’re modernizing the sport.
- Larry Ellison
With the right pitch, you’ll get no argument. This is where the salesmanship comes in…It requires of you a substantial degree of self-confidence to pull it off, but your belief in your own project will help you muster that.
- Michael Levine
After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.
- Steve Wozniak
I love building technology, I love programming. I love building teams. And I also love building beautiful things.
- Jack Dorsey
Today, and I’m very strongly against tax increases.
- Donald Trump
Not good — great.
- Jack Welch
I’m not panicking, and I’m not scared, I’ve been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
- Napoleon Hill
[On a company founder.] A founder is not a job, it’s a role, it’s an attitude. And it’s something that can happen again, and again, and again. In fact it has to happen, again and again and again. Otherwise we would not move forward.
- Jack Dorsey
If you complain you will remain, if you praise you will be raised.
- Joel Olsteen
That was annoying but not entirely unexpected. It’s not a huge shock, given what’s going on down there.
- Ed Clark
Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
- Zig Ziglar
Feel the force!
- Yoda
Well… I graduated from the business school of Northumberland University in Newcastle.
- Alexei Mordashov
The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.
- Bill Gates
Assetts put money in your pocket. Liabilities take money out of your pocket.
- Robert Kiyosaki
There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Have the humility to learn from those around you.
- John C. Maxwell
There is no sure path to success, but the surest path to failure is trying to please everyone.
- Timothy Ferriss
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
- Walt Disney
In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.
- Bill Gates
When you start a company, you’re basically jumping off a cliff. You don’t have any sense of where you’re going to land, what to do when you land, or what you should be doing inmidair. It’s very very scary. But it’s much easier when you have somebody to commiserate with you who knows what you’re going through, and who you know will always be on your side.
- Seth Goldman
Even working remotely should be avoided, because misalignment can creep in whenever colleagues aren’t together full-time, in the same place, every day.
- Peter Thiel
You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
- Tadashi Yanai
Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.
- Jerry Seinfeld
We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
- Russell Simmons
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
- Russell Simmons
Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.
- Winston Churchill
I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it’s time America was run like a business.
- Donald Trump
The Pitch is your mechanism for persuasion. Persuasion is the goal. You’re trying to convince them of someone or something, and they might initially be resistant. This isn’t a nice casual conversation; it’s the Guerrilla P.R. version of a first strike.
- Michael Levine
What is measured improves.
- Peter Drucker
We gradually came to the realization that we were hurting not just ourselves but the Chinese people.
- Sergey Brin
Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don’t want.
- Timothy Ferriss
Connectors understand the necessity of creating value for others. If you want to be in the middle of the action, you must seek ways to enhance the lives of those surrounding you. The best connectors I know are extremely generous with introductions where they make sense. One of my favorite questions is, What are you most excited about right now? From that answer, I know who I can hook that person up with.
- Forbes
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligent and honest purpose as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
- Thomas Edison
I have ways of making money that you know nothing about…(if you’re firm won’t sell) you will stand alone, Your firm can never make any more money in Cleveland. No use trying to do business in competition with Standard Oil Company. If you do (continue to fight) it will end in your being wiped out.
- John D. Rockefeller
My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.
- Steve Wozniak
Hold on to that new, enlarge vision of victory that God has given you. Start expecting things to change in your favor. Dare to boldly declare that you are standing strong against the forces of darkness.
- Joel Olsteen
If your temper is aroused and you tell ’em a thing or two, you will have a fine time unloading your feelings. But what about the other fellow? Will he share your pleasure? Will your belligerent tones, your hostile attitude, make it easy for him to agree with you? If you come at me with your fists doubled, said Wood row Wilson, I think I can promise you that mine will double as fast as yours; but if you come to me and say, ‘Let us sit down and take counsel together, and, if we differ from one another, understand why it is that we differ from one another, just what the points at issue are,’ we will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.
- Dale Carnegie
Monopoly is therefore not a pathology or an exception. Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.
- Peter Thiel
I’m a voracious reader.
- Howard Schultz
I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.
- Jerry Seinfeld
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
- Walt Disney
Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
- Zig Ziglar
Be friendly, but not so friendly, it’s creepy.
- Michael Levine
Be fair. You have to be able to see their point of view.
- Michael Levine
Don’t save it all for the end. There is every reason not to.
- Timothy Ferriss
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
- John F. Kennedy
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter Drucker
My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.
- Bill Gates
When you’re building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can’t have two sets of information for two sets of people.
- Howard Schultz
A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.
- Harvey Mackay
Three hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Disruptive technologies typically enable new markets to emerge.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Lightening is something which, again, we would rather avoid.
- Richard Branson
Life is actually far better than it is in the movies. And it takes longer.
- Seth Godin
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- Albert Einstein
I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.
- Mukesh Ambani
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
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
- Harvey Mackay
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
- Jeff Bezos
Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.
- Joel Olsteen
Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to other people.
- Zig Ziglar
Unfavorable Environment Influences During Childhood.
- Napoleon Hill
Save your first bucket of gold… then use it for investments.
- Lee Shau Kee
Puffery makes you look weak and not very bright. Representation makes you look strong and smart.
- Jerry Vass
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
- Warren Buffett
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
- Walt Disney
Put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
- Andrew Carnegie
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 think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.
- Seth Godin
I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter how many times you failed…You only have to be right once…I was an idiot lots of times, and I learned from them all.
- Mark Cuban
