Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
- Bill Gates
Notable Quotables
The question isn’t ‘What do we want to know about people?’ It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves?
- Mark Zuckerberg
The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
- George Orwell
I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.
- Joel Olsteen
Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw the stars.
- Dale Carnegie
I believe people have to follow their dreams – I did.
- Larry Ellison
When you start a company, it’s a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.
- Howard Schultz
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
- Henry Ford
There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.
- Elon Musk
I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.
- Steve Wozniak
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle and a victory.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
- Zig Ziglar
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
You will find only what you bring in.
- Yoda
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
- Bill Gates
Most of our lives in public are spent papering over, rationalizing, and otherwise denying our fear. We go to war because we’re afraid, and we often go to spiritual events for the very same reason.
- Seth Godin
Half of College Grads Are Working Jobs That Don’t Require A Degree, Forbes 2013 college graduates have are an average of $32,500 in debt.
- CNNMoney
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
- Joel Olsteen
Storytelling is the game. It’s what we all do. It’s why Nike is Nike, it’s why Apple is Apple, it’s why Walt Disney built Disney World and it’s why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It’s no miracle, only day-to-day work in the appropriate way.
- Alexei Mordashov
I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.
- Bill Gates
I DECLARE I will live victoriously. I was created in the image of God. I have the DNA of a winner. I am wearing a crown of favor. Royal blood flows through my veins. I am the head, never the tail, above never beneath. I will live with purpose, passion, and praise, knowing that I was destined to live in victory. This is my declaration.
- Joel Olsteen
the average person is more interested in his or her own name than in all the other names on earth put together.
- Dale Carnegie
Unhappy Barnes & Noble filed a lawsuit three days before Amazon’s IPO, claiming that Amazon was unfairly calling itself a “bookstore” when really it was a “book broker”.
- Peter Thiel
I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.
- Joel Olsteen
You must practically educate yourself, regardless of your accessibility to formal education.
- Abraham Lincoln
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
Don’t Hire People Like Yourself.
- Forrest Ray
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
- Harvey Mackay
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
- Peter Drucker
You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedback, particularly from friends.
- Elon Musk
Since most people have not been taught how to make mistakes and learn from them, they either avoid making mistakes altogether, which is a bigger mistake, or they make a mistake but fail to find the lesson from the mistakes.
- Robert Kiyosaki
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
- Peter Drucker
Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.
- Bill Gates
As Indian companies strive to be globally competitive, they have realized the importance of investing in information technology and networking to adapt quickly to rapidly shifting market transitions.
- John Chambers
Being a winner is much different from having the potential to win. Everyone has the potential, it’s what you do with that potential that really matters.
- Zig Ziglar
You need to live every day like it could be your last.
- Joel Olsteen
It is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.
- Winston Churchill
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
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
Mike suggested that we might want to turn our stockholders’ meetings into an event, and we went along with him.
- Sam Walton
It’s not about size, it’s about your ability to make a difference. At that small size, collaboration is all the more important.
- John Chambers
The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.
- Elon Musk
That’s not a Puma, that’s a Nike. [‘What’s a Nike?’] A new brand.
- Phil Knight
In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
- Mark Zuckerberg
If you think the people you attract could be better, then it’s time for you to improve yourself.
- Napoleon Hill
I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
- Joel Olsteen
It encourages you to focus on your work and the generosity that comes from interacting with (and helping) your community.
- Seth Godin
The breadth and maturity of our own businesses is allowing us to weather the prevailing storms.
- Cheng Yu-tung
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
- John C. Maxwell
Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
- Og Mandino
It is possible to know all there is to know about a subject—medicine, for example—but if you don’t have M.D. at the end of your name, few will listen. The M.D. is what I term a credibility indicator.” The so-called expert with the most credibility indicators, whether acronyms or affiliations, is often the most successful in the marketplace, even if other candidates have more in-depth knowledge. This is a matter of superior positioning, not deception.
- Timothy Ferriss
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
- Winston Churchill
You will never become a category of one if you run with the pack.
- Seth Godin
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
- Richard Branson
If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!
- Michael Gerber
Let us work together to take Hong Kong to new heights.
- Cheng Yu-tung
The most terrifying phrase in the English language is ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’
- Ronald Reagan
Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.
- Sara Blakely
In the old days, Hong Kong was undeveloped, coming from a low base. Now it is on a high base, making it difficult to earn high multiples. We will certainly diversify out of Hong Kong and out of property. [On being asked where?] I don’t know. I haven’t found it yet.
- Lee Shau Kee
By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It’s the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.
- Timothy Ferriss
Luck Is When Preparation Meets Opportunity.
- Seneca
I’m a job creator.
- Stephen Wynn
Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.
- Sergey Brin
In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.
- Harvey Mackay
The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.
- Joel Olsteen
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
- Elon Musk
I think the most important thing that I think everyone in America must have is belief that wherever they live, whatever station they have in life, that the American dream is alive and well. I think the fracturing of trust and confidence is in the American dream.
- Howard Schultz
I’ve never heard of him. I don’t know anything about the speaker so there’s nothing that makes me want to get up early and go to it. I might catch it on TV.
- John Chambers
With vision and foresight, thorough consideration, careful planning and steadfast commitment, the New World Group will continue to maintain its ambitious yet healthy investment strategy to grow together with the nation and strive for greater success in the future.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.
- Harvey Mackay
Great design = getting people to do what you want.
- Seth Godin
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Mark Twain
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Winston Churchill
Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.
- John C. Maxwell
My new favorite word is ‘awkward.’…The reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn’t be worth the effort.
- Seth Godin
I’m a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that’s what I do.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.
- Joel Olsteen
Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls– family, health, friends, integrity– are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered
- Gary Keller
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
- Thomas Edison
I’m not looking for a legacy, and you’ll never shut up the critics. I’ve been around 50 years. When you’re a catalyst for change, you make enemies – and I’m proud of the ones I’ve got.
- Rupert Murdoch
The market … demands a signal from you that you’re serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.
- Seth Godin
The U.S. Treasury prints “In God We Trust” on the dollar, the ECB might as well print “Kick the Can Down the Road” on the euro.
- Peter Thiel
Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don’t think so.
- Dale Carnegie
TECHNIQUES IN HANDLING PEOPLE Principle 1—Don’t criticize, condemn or complain. Principle 2—Give honest and sincere appreciation. Principle 3—Arouse in the other person an eager want.
- Dale Carnegie
The Group has not been deterred by any negative sentiment and will as ever respond to the challenges and opportunities ahead of us with the same spirit of caution, flexibility, determination and dynamism, which have brought much success to us in the past.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.
- Yoda
Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
- Yoda
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
- Robert J. Sawyer
In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
- Jeff Bezos
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
- Donald Trump
If you really believe that you’re making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets – not to have a fair fight.
- Michael Bloomberg
Casualness causes casualties.
- Tim Redmond
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
- Henry Ford
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
