The road to comfort is crowded and it rarely gets you there. Ironically, it’s those who seek out discomfort that are able to make a difference and find their footing.
- Seth Godin
Notable Quotables
A definite person determines the one best thing to do and then does it. Instead of working tirelessly to make herself indistinguishable, she strives to be great at something substantive—to be a monopoly of one.
- Peter Thiel
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
- Ben Horowitz
This is the day of dramatization. Merely stating a truth isn’t enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship. The movies do it. Television does it. And you will have to do it if you want attention.
- Dale Carnegie
If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
- Zig Ziglar
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
- Peter Drucker
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. It’s an awesome responsibility.
- Zig Ziglar
The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
- Bill Gates
When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
- Donald Trump
I’m pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don’t see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I’m petrified of being wrong.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
- Lawrence Bossidy
Unleash the power of people. No involvement means no committment.
- David Novak
[Less than a week after founding the forerunner to Nike] I forgot to make it part of the original agreement, but I think it ought to be made explicit: There will be no pissing on partners in the shower.
- Phil Knight
Reckless he is. Matters are worse.
- Yoda
An analysis of several hundred people who had accumulated fortunes well beyond the million dollar mark, disclosed the fact that every one of theme had the habit of reaching decisions promptly, and changing these decisions slowly if and when they were changed…The major weaknes of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of DEFINITE DECISION…Most individuals lack the will-power to reach decisions promptly, and to stand by them after they have been made, even during normal business conditions.
- Napoleon Hill
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
- Peter Drucker
As a businessperson, I don’t have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
- Tadashi Yanai
Anytime you look at anything that’s considered artistic, there’s a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can’t exist without it.
- Steve Martin
Just saying you are better than good won’t make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.
- Zig Ziglar
‘I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’.
- Bill Gates
Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.
- Jerry Seinfeld
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.
- Winston Churchill
Even if you have a world class idea and want to give it away for the good of humanity, you will have to sell the concept. If you can’t sell it, you’ll be stuck with your idea, poorer for your brilliance and generosity.
- Jerry Vass
Its never too late…to start heading in the right direction.
- Seth Godin
I had this very rich sense of how the metropolis was living and breathing.
- Jack Dorsey
Faith doesn’t always instantly deliver you, but it always carries you through.
- Joel Olsteen
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
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston Churchill
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Sooner or later, you will see a China-based company that really has a global impact, and I think Baidu has a chance to become one of those companies. We should be able to compete on a global basis.
- Robin Li
I can become someone’s miracle.
- Joel Olsteen
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I.” And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say “I.” They don’t think “I.” They think “we”; they think “team.” They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but “we” gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
- Peter Drucker
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
- Richard Branson
Put time limits on each item. Set an agenda for your meeting and your trips to Disney World.
- David Robinson
Timid salesmen have skinny kids.
- Zig Ziglar
I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
- Sam Walton
I may be over the top on this, but I just don’t want to like my competitors. I want my people to believe that whenever he and our other competitors succeed, we will be less able to do all the things we want to do.
- Phil Knight
We can consider 140 characters to be the full story, but it’s not. It’s just a caption. A headline for something broader.
- Jack Dorsey
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Some people do really find fault like there’s a reward for it.
- Zig Ziglar
I don’t go down the road of condemning.
- Joel Olsteen
Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect’s mind.
- Zig Ziglar
Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.
- John C. Maxwell
Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.
- Tadashi Yanai
There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‘The government’s corrupt,’ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
- Bill Gates
I aim to be pretty – I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.
- Sara Blakely
This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
- Bill Gates
Whatever you accept your employees will expect.
- Clifton Taulbert
He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.
- Winston Churchill
True success is when you reach back and bring somebody along with you.
- Joel Olsteen
Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding.
- Sara Blakely
just like most nightmares, it’s not that big a deal and is reversible.
- Timothy Ferriss
With limited time or opportunity to experiment, we intentionally narrow our choices to those at the top.
- Seth Godin
To change somebody’s behavior, change the level of respect she receives by giving her a fine reputation to live up to. Act as though the trait you are trying to influence is already one of the person’s outstanding characteristics.
- Dale Carnegie
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
- Seth Godin
The proposed abolishment of estate duty by the Hong Kong Government will contribute to establish Hong Kong as a regional financial centre as well as an asset management hub.
- Lee Shau Kee
I will everyday as just a blow from my blade against a mighty oak…strike until it falls quote.
- Og Mandino
As CEO, you should have an opinion on absolutely everything. You should have an opinion on every forecast, every product plan, every presentation, and even every comment. Let people know what you think. If you like someone’s comment, give her the feedback. If you disagree, give her the feedback. Say what you think. Express yourself.
- Ben Horowitz
None of Us is as Good as All of Us.
- Ray Kroc
I first thought maybe I’d do a banjo presentation record, where I’d play a couple of songs and get a bunch of other players to do the rest. Then I realized I had enough of my own songs to do an album of them.
- Steve Martin
I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.
- Joel Olsteen
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
- Elon Musk
The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.
- Andrew Carnegie
The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business.
- Howard Schultz
There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.
- Henry Ford
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
This is not a book for the wild-haired crazies your company keeps in a corner. It is a book for you, your boss, and your employees, because the best future available to us is a future where you contriubute your true self and your best work. Are you up for that?
- Seth Godin
This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
- John D. Rockefeller
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.
- Seth Godin
Today a grand plan coming from a schoolteacher would be dismissed as crankery, and a long-range vision coming from anyone more powerful would be derided as hubris.
- Peter Thiel
I’ve actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don’t mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.
- Elon Musk
Checklists seem able to defend anyone, even the experienced, against failure in many more tasks than we realized.
- Atul Gawande
I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.
- Zig Ziglar
People shouldn’t have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
- Tadashi Yanai
When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.
- Winston Churchill
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
- Mark Zuckerberg
You can build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.
- Zig Ziglar
Surround yourself with the right people
- Tony Hsieh
Every pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, but every optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
Although it’s admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it’s more desirable to be smart-working.
- John C. Maxwell
Good relations with the Wookiees, I have.
- Yoda
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
- Ray Dalio
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
- Bill Gates
Abe Lincoln once remarked that most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Dale Carnegie
If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.
- Zig Ziglar
We are interested in others when they are interested in us.
- Dale Carnegie
We are making these changes at a time when we are beginning to see signs that our business is stabilizing.
- John Chambers
In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.
- Aliko Dangote
The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
- Bill Gates
Don’t let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That’s a price that’s too high to pay.
- George Foreman
Frank Wells 1888 instruction to his agents: The most polite and gentlemanly treatment of all customers, however insignificant in their business, is insisted upon. Proper respect must be shown to all – let them be men, women or children, rich or poor, white or black – it must not be forgotten, that the company is dependent on these people for its business.
- Frank Wells
However old or young, have a mindset that enables us to capture all the opportunities that changes in the world are bringing to us.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
- Bill Gates
Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don’t turn out as we had hoped. But that’s when we we must a decision that we’re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.
- Joel Olsteen
Doughnuts are a normal part of a healthy, balanced diet.
- Brooke Smith
Strive to make every person feel special. After all, every person you meet is made in the image of God.
- Joel Olsteen
Your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room.
- Jeff Bezos
Possession of Power That Was Not Acquired Through Self Effort.
- Napoleon Hill
Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
- Winston Churchill
The people of Southwest have always been my pride, my joy and my love. Their indomitable dedication and esprit de corps have taken Southwest from a three-airplane dream to a 500-airplane reality.
- Herb Kelleher
