It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
- Larry Page
Notable Quotables
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
- Winston Churchill
Don’t treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.
- Chris Brogan
Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It’s more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.
- Bill Gates
Team Together / Team Apart means you respect the final decision even if you would do something diffently, and make it happen with positive energy.
- David Novak
[Medco] had a different culture with respect to spending money. I believe health care demands that we be as frugal as possible and pay money for things that matter. We’re pretty frugal. Everybody has the same size offices. Everybody has the same size cube. There are no perks.
- George Paz
It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you’re doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.
- Ray Dalio
While evaluating his future professional opportunities, Gary has chosen to spend some time with his family.
- John Chambers
It sounds awful, but a crisis rarely ends without blood on the floor. That’s not easy or pleasant. But sadly, it is often necessary so the company can move forward again.
- Jack Welch
Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.
- Tony Dungy
Mine, or I will help you not!
- Yoda
Records are made to be broken. It is in man’s nature to continue to strive to do just that.
- Richard Branson
As the Readers’s Digest once said: ‘Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.
- Dale Carnegie
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.
- Bill Gates
Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn’t know where you are. It doesn’t know what you’re doing. It doesn’t know what you know.
- Larry Page
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
- Dale Carnegie
What you sow you reap. What you give.
- Zig Ziglar
I enjoy the hunt much more than the ‘good life’ after the victory.
- Carl Icahn
People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you’re going to lose. You’re just going to. Even if you get the money, you’re not going to be happy.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
- Steve Ballmer
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
- Richard Branson
Nobody in the heavens above or on the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth will ever object to your saying: ‘I may be wrong. Let’s examine the facts.
- Dale Carnegie
In order to become rich, you need to learn to build systems that can work without you. .
- Robert Kiyosaki
To my mind the old masters are not art, their value is in their scarcity.
- Thomas Edison
All marketers are storytellers. Only the losers are liars.
- Seth Godin
It’s pretty chilly by southern California standards.
- Ed Clark
It’s about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it’s Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it’s going to be, ‘Storyteller.’
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
- Zig Ziglar
You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
- Elon Musk
If the merit of the idea is strong, it spreads really quickly no matter who you are or where you are from.
- Jack Dorsey
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
- Winston Churchill
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
- Seth Godin
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don’t laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that’s not real laughter.
- Steve Martin
When the economy does pick up, … so will … spending.
- John Chambers
The words Think and Thank are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: Think and Thank. Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.
- Dale Carnegie
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
- Zig Ziglar
You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.
- Andrew Carnegie
Sometimes, we’re so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing.
- Seth Godin
the major fears of modern man could be boiled down to two things: too much e-mail and getting fat.
- Timothy Ferriss
The abundance mindset makes it easier to be graceful.
- Seth Godin
All bibles are man-made.
- Thomas Edison
The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.
- Winston Churchill
I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
- Jack Dorsey
Many people who want to be great aren’t willing to do the work to make it possible!
- Zig Ziglar
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
- Napoleon Hill
Make good decisions based on facts.
- David Novak
It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
- Warren Buffett
[That was the case Wednesday night, when Cisco executives talked about results for the fiscal second quarter (which closed on Jan. 26). Chambers and chief financial officer Larry Carter spoke only about the next quarter, when revenue growth from the second fiscal quarter is expected to be nil or in the low single digits.] Our visibility is still very limited, … If there’s one lesson we’ve learned over the past year, it’s how quickly things can change.
- John Chambers
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream – and by tuning into one another’s secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.
- Oprah Winfrey
We believe the competitive and economic environment will remain very challenging in the year ahead. Whilst we think we have the opportunity to make improvements to some of our ranges, we are still budgeting on the basis of negative like-for-like retail sales for the year.
- Simon Wolfson
People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
- Bill Gates
The fatal temptation is to describe your market extremely narrowly so that you dominate it by definition.
- Peter Thiel
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
- Walt Disney
I already told you that it is 100% outside buyers.
- Lee Shau Kee
The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That’s the question to be worried about.
- Ray Dalio
Anatomy of a MovementSenator Bill Bradley defines a movement as having three elements: (1) A narrative that tells a story about who we are and the future we’re trying to build. (2) A connection between and among the leader and the tribe. (3) Something to do – the fewer limits the better. Too often organizations fail to do anything but the third.
- Seth Godin
People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.
- John C. Maxwell
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
- Bill Gates
Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people’s stories, it’s easier to understand their demeanor.
- Joel Olsteen
Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.
- Joel Olsteen
When overtaken with the temporay feelings of potential failure, burn all of your bridges of retreat, thus making retreat impossible.
- Napoleon Hill
As Google CEO Larry Page put it in his 2014 TED talk: “The main thing that has caused companies to fail, in my view, is that they missed the future.
- Jack Welch
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
Founding Fathers of U.S. set up processes, checks and balances designed to insure that their values lived on long after their passing.
- Jim Collins
If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says: I’m beaten. It is fate. I haven’t got a chance. Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of selfpity. But when the wise man is handed a lemon, he says: What lesson can I learn from this misfortune? How can I improve my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade?
- Dale Carnegie
our skills and talent, but above all, be tenacious. See yourself as victorious–which means never giving up
- Donald Trump
My message is that God is a good God.
- Joel Olsteen
Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money, it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?
- Joel Olsteen
The Chinese government still would like to see U.S. Internet companies explore the Chinese market, providing they are willing to abide by Chinese law. I think companies like Facebook should think about the Chinese market.
- Robin Li
Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
- Russell Simmons
It is expected that Mainland China’s entry to the World Trade Organisation will materialise in the near future and the country will see further growth in its economy unfolding at a faster pace.
- Lee Shau Kee
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
- Dale Carnegie
With limited time or opportunity to experiment, we intentionally narrow our choices to those at the top.
- Seth Godin
Wal-Mart’s leaders had obviously made a point of educating and informing everyone at all levels about all aspects of the company, and that shows a real respect for their people.
- David Novak
His friends, drunk to the point of speaking in tongues, were asleep.
- Timothy Ferriss
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
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
- Joel Olsteen
Be a coach, not a cheerleader
- Stacy Thorn
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
- John C. Maxwell
If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
- Bill Gates
There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.
- Rupert Murdoch
If there is any one secret of success,’ said Henry Ford, ‘it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
- Dale Carnegie
We beat our expectations in the run up to Christmas and this time last year we had particularly high stock levels leading to a bigger clearance.
- Simon Wolfson
If you want to be inventive — you have to be willing to fail.
- Jeff Bezos
Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.
- Peter Thiel
We were trading things before we were using language to communicate.
- Jack Dorsey
Don’t let what you don’t know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you’re guaranteed to do them differently.
- Sara Blakely
I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.
- Warren Buffett
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.
- Timothy Ferriss
Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.
- Lisa Stone
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win — you’re still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
- Steven Spielberg
I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.
- Bill Gates
We hate bureaucracy and all the nonsense that comes with it.
- Jack Welch
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
- Andrew Carnegie
The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
- Wang Jianlin
We saw strength across our core switching and routing businesses, as well as traction in our advanced technologies. The service provider and public sector segments, in particular, continue to be solid markets for our products.
- John Chambers
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
