Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.
- Dale Carnegie
Notable Quotables
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That’s success.
- Zig Ziglar
That’s one of our biggest challenges – getting the people to the product immediately in a consistent way.
- Jack Dorsey
Learn to do common things uncommonly well, we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
It’s not how far you fall. But how high you bounce that counts.
- Zig Ziglar
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I think the move by Mr. Greenspan was welcomed by everyone here.
- Jack Welch
The secret of your success is found in your daily routine
- John Maxwell
At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn’t even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.
- Ma Huateng
I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.
- Lakshmi Mittal
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. …
- Dale Carnegie
Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy
- Chris Humphrey
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
- Joel Olsteen
Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, “Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.
- Winston Churchill
The greatest business people I’ve met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
- Michael Gerber
I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.
- Jeff Bezos
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
There’s this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true.
- Howard Schultz
Allow yourself to get on the same side of the desk and solve the problems together.
- Jack Nadel
Never blindside an employee by firing them without warning.
- Clay Clark
Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
- Jeff Bezos
And well you should not. For my ally in the Force. And a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. It’s energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we…(Yoda pinches Luke’s shoulder)…not this crude matter. (a sweeping gesture) You must feel the Force around you. (gesturing) Here, between you…me…the tree…the rock…everywhere! Yes, even between this land and that ship!
- Yoda
Most poor people live in the poorest countries.
- Bill Gates
Many brilliant people believe that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains, ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
- Peter Drucker
There is no such thing as a good tax.
- Winston Churchill
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
- Walt Disney
Believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
- Seth Godin
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
- Napoleon Hill
A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.
- James C. Collins
The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
- Bill Gates
Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here.” Everyone around the table nodded assent. “Then,” continued Mr. Sloan, “I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
- Peter Drucker
If you can’t be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.
- Seth Godin
Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.
- John C. Maxwell
10% of Americans hold 73% of the country’s wealth.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Worrying is a waste of time. Worrying gets in the way of solving problems.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can’t – you can’t put a wall up around here. We tried that in the ’30s. It didn’t work.
- Jack Welch
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
- Bill Gates
I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm.
- Vince Lombardi
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
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
- Andrew Carnegie
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Stand by your principles and be comfortable with confrontation. So few people are, so when the people with the red tape come, it becomes a negotiation.
- Travis Kalanick
God never promised that we wouldn’t have challenges. In fact, He said just the opposite. His word says, ‘Be truly glad!…these trials are only to test your faith, to see whether or not it is strong and pure…’ so if your faith remains strong after being tried in the test tube of fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day of His return.
- Joel Olsteen
A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.
- Winston Churchill
I DECLARE I have the grace I need for today. I am full of power, strength, and determination. Nothing I face will be too much for me. I will overcome every obstacle, outlast every challenge, and come through every difficulty better off than I was before. This is my declaration.
- Joel Olsteen
I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn’t even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.
- Sara Blakely
That doesn’t mean the opposite ideas are automatically true: you can’t escape the madness of crowds by dogmatically rejecting them. Instead ask yourself: how much of what you know about business is shaped by mistaken reactions to past mistakes? The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.
- Peter Thiel
I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‘There’s nothing good in my future’ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.
- Joel Olsteen
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
the only way to influence people is to talk in terms of what the other person wants.
- Dale Carnegie
You always have to give something when you get something.
- Jack Nadel
Purpose is a soft virtue — but it’s what gives you steel in your spine.
- Rich Karlgaard
You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
- Seth Godin
Perhaps your challenge isn’t finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.
- Seth Godin
Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do.
- Steve Wozniak
If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
- Donald Trump
The general upward trend in residential property prices seems to be continuing, with the luxury end of the residential market poised to show better performance in particular.
- Lee Shau Kee
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
- Og Mandino
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
- Stephen R. Covey
Newspaper readership is still growing in India.
- Bill Gates
Accessible design is good design.
- Steve Ballmer
If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.
- Zig Ziglar
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
- Bob Dylan
We should be able to significantly improve health-care outcomes. The government is needing that. When you look at ACOs [accountable care organizations] and look at what the Obama administration is talking about, in trying to improve quality, that’s exactly what Express Scripts does.
- George Paz
User experience is everything. It always has been, but it’s undervalued and underinvested in. If you don’t know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.
- Evan Williams
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
- Andrew Carnegie
Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.
- Elon Musk
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
- Henry Ford
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Life’s most soothing things are a child’s goodnight and sweet music….
- Thomas Edison
I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I’ve tried to really stress that.
- Larry Page
Part-time employees don’t work. Even working remotely should be avoided, because misalignment can creep in whenever colleagues aren’t together full-time, in the same place, every day. If you’re deciding whether to bring someone on board, the decision is binary. Ken Kesey was right: you’re either on the bus or off the bus.
- Peter Thiel
Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional. We understand that and believe in failing early and iterating until we get it right. When this process works, it means our failures are relatively small in size (most experiments can start small), and when we hit on something that is really working for customers, we double-down on it with hopes to turn it into an even bigger success.
- Jeff Bezos
We’ve all been guilty at one point or another in our careers of boasting of perfect hindsight. It’s a terrible sin. If you don’t make sure your questions and concerns are acted upon, it doesn’t count.
- Jack Welch
If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.
- Rupert Murdoch
Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands for the first time the tools by which it can unfailingly accomplish its own extermination. That is the point in human destinies to which all the glories and toils of men have at last led them. They would do well to pause and ponder upon their new responsibilities. Death stands at attention, obedient, expectant, ready to serve, ready to shear away the peoples en masse; ready, if called on, to pulverise, without hope of repair, what is left of civilisation. He awaits only the word of command. He awaits it from a frail, bewildered being, long his victim, now—for one occasion only—his Master.
- Winston Churchill
In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
- Mark Zuckerberg
I kicked but I also hugged.
- Jack Welch
We need to reinvent food at Starbucks. Less could be more.
- Howard Schultz
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I run a bunch of charities and I say this line to people: ‘I am somebody who has always been helped.’ A little thing like that can make people believe it.
- Russell Simmons
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
- Bill Gates
My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.
- Sara Blakely
Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.
- Bill Gates
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
- Seth Godin
It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.
- Jorge Paulo Lemann
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, ‘Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.’
- Howard Schultz
In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.
- Bill Gates
I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.
- Bill Gates
You must go through the process before you get the product.
- Paul Pressey
While evaluating his future professional opportunities, Gary has chosen to spend some time with his family.
- John Chambers
The question you should be asking isn’t, What do I want? or What are my goals? but What would excite me?
- Timothy Ferriss
I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
- Bill Gates
When you go through enough dark places, you don’t complain about little things. You don’t lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don’t get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You’ve been through too much to let that sour you.
- Joel Olsteen
Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field
- Peter Thiel
Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‘Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.’
- Joel Olsteen
Since all of them overestimated the competition, no one even showed up.
- Timothy Ferriss
