The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free stamps, and it allows you to create richer and deeper relationships than you’ve ever been able to create before.
- Seth Godin
Notable Quotables
I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.
- Bill Gates
Today, we exaggerate the differences between left-liberal egalitarianism and libertarian individualism because almost everyone shares their common indefinite attitude.
- Peter Thiel
With sustained recovery of the local economy, marked improvement in consumer spending and increasing tourist arrivals from Mainland China, these led to the expansion of certain local retail trades including cosmetics, audio-visual products and jewellery which in turn boosted the demand for retail shop spaces.
- Lee Shau Kee
That is what every successful person loves: the game. The chance for self-expression. The chance to prove his or her worth, to excel, to win. That is what makes foot-races, and hog-calling, and pie-eating contests. The desire to excel. The desire for a feeling of importance.
- Dale Carnegie
Out of clutter, find simplicity.
- Albert Einstein
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
- Thomas Edison
Life is not fair – get used to it!
- Bill Gates
Paper money will suffer. I’d be in mortar, not paper (money). We are in a time when paper investments are riskier than in the past. There is also a great amount of sovereign risk.
- Lee Shau Kee
True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.
- Zig Ziglar
“High expectations are the key to everything.”
- Sam Walton
Building solid relationships in business is about helping others succeed and moving their efforts forward. This benefits both parties. Relationships are built easily, naturally, and profitably when you focus on helping the other party…
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We are each responsible for our own life – no other person is or even can be.
- Oprah Winfrey
But there seems to be little correlation between a man’s effectiveness and his intelligence, his imagination or his knowledge.
- Peter Drucker
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
When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.
- Jerry Seinfeld
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
- Stephen King
The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‘Oh nom it’s on the house.’
- Richard Branson
Sales were limited by how many shoes we had, shoes were limited by how many dollars we had to order them.
- Phil Knight
So you need two professions: the one you have studied all this time, and your other profession the profession of persuasion that allows you to make good use of all those years of education, practice and dues-paying.
- Jerry Vass
Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
- Brian Tracy
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
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
- Mark Twain
We have the best flat land, you can grow anything in the cheapest possible way; turning Nigeria around is not really that difficult. Nigeria is really the best place to invest, it is one of the places to make money; all over the world it (Nigeria) is the best kept secret actually in terms of investment.
- Aliko Dangote
It’s only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.
- Harvey Mackay
The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it’s a job.Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.I call the process of doing your art ‘the work.’ It’s possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that’s how you become a linchpin.The job is not the work.
- Seth Godin
It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.
- Dale Carnegie
I’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
- Elon Musk
I support Democrats and Republicans. And I’m telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he’s gone, everybody’s going to be sitting on their thumbs.
- Stephen Wynn
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE’s diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation.
- Jack Welch
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win — essential to success.
- Napoleon Hill
The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.
- Andrew Carnegie
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
Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
- Donald Trump
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong questionl
- Peter Drucker
Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don’t want.
- Timothy Ferriss
Most people have never thought through how they’re going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Successful storytelling builds brand equity, and businesses with high brand equity don’t need to draw as much attention to themselves and their achievements as those that are still establishing their value to the customer.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.
- Zig Ziglar
For Starbucks, there will be no shortage of the highest-quality arabica beans. I suspect that for some others there could potentially be a problem, not in the near term, but over time.
- Howard Schultz
Comedy may be big business but it isn’t pretty.
- Steve Martin
Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
- Vida D. Scudder
I am upset with the effect that both of these issues have had on the public,
- Michael Gerber
You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Get your fire back.
- Joel Olsteen
I’ve never been one to dwell on reverses.
- Sam Walton
Disruptive technology should be framed as a marketing challenge, not a technological one.
- Clayton M. Christensen
The only way to solve the problem of Boko Haram is to create jobs.
- Aliko Dangote
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
- Og Mandino
Have you ever heard of Gmail? Ever used it? If so, it’s not because Gmail ran a lot of TV ads (they didn’t). It’s because the manifesto of free email got to you.
- Seth Godin
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
- Peter Drucker
Names are the sweetest, most important sound in any language.
- Dale Carnegie
Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda’s A Separate Peace: “The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse.
- Michael Gerber
We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Litigation is the basic legal right which guarantees every corporation its decade in court.
- David Porter
One day, I’d like to write a book about the worst ads ever run, but my fear is that it would be too long.
- Seth Godin
The Internet economy continues to create unprecedented growth opportunities for people, companies and countries on a global basis.
- John Chambers
My relationship with money is that it’s a tool to be self-sufficient, but it’s not something that is a part of who I am.
- Laurene Powell Jobs
Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! … How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care … We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end … Hitler’s fate was sealed. Mussolini’s fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.
- Winston Churchill
IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they’re working on, what they’re doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
- Jack Dorsey
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
- John C. Maxwell
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
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.
- Warren Buffett
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Strong is Vader. Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.
- Yoda
Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.
- Phil Knight
The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.
- Bill Gates
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
- Winston Churchill
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
- Zig Ziglar
If Google Books is successful, others will follow.
- Sergey Brin
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
- Wayne Gretzky
A factory demands a compliant workforce in order to succeed.
- Seth Godin
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
- Zig Ziglar
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
- Napoleon Hill
I believe great people to be those who know how they got where they are, and what they need to do to get where they’re going. Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives. Their lives are spent living out the vision they have of their future, in the present. They compare what they’ve done with what they intended to do. And where there’s a disparity between the two, they don’t wait very long to make up the difference.
- Michael Gerber
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
We’re seeing an explosion in new approaches, new models and new forms of interaction. This growth comes from change, insight and exploration, not obedience.
- Seth Godin
I think so many people are reactive… they see things in a short term way they’re right up against it.
- Ray Dalio
It’s Almost Impossible to Overinvest in Becoming the Market Leader.
- Seth Godin
This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
- Winston Churchill
(In reference to one of his first advertising sales mentors Howard Davis)… He was 6 foot 4 with silver hair…the quintessential advertising guy. He had a glass topped desk in his office because, as he put it, he like to be able to look down and see his Guccis while he worked. Howard taught me to get things done. He was very smart but he was also an animal. He exuded power and he could be very intimidating, and he knew how to use his power to get results while still managing to be a good guy. Howard’s personal style was very different from my own, but what he did teach me was how to create a sense of urgency, how to motivate performance by getting everyone’s heart pounding.
- David Novak
Our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read.
- Harvey Mackay
If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you’ll develop skills that other professionals don’t have.
- Steve Wozniak
How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is let’s make this a true land of opportunity.
- Laurene Powell Jobs
A product is viral if its core functionality encourages users to invite their friends to become users too.
- Peter Thiel
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
- John D. Rockefeller
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.
- Winston Churchill
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
- Peter Drucker
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
- Bill Gates
And I think the more money you put in people’s hands, the more they will spend. And if they don’t spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.
- Michael Bloomberg
Hong Kong still offers the best value.
- Lee Shau Kee
Checks should be endorsed immediately: FOR DEPOSIT ONLY.
- Robert Kiyosaki
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
- Elon Musk
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.
- Dave Barry
Be willing to make the mistakes and realizing that something can happen later – the patience are some of the things I would advise.
- Jack Dorsey
Stones of judgment, discouragement or doubt may be thrown at you. You can’t stop them, but you can make the choice to keep your walls up and not let them affect you.
- Joel Olsteen
