It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it.
- Herb Kelleher
Notable Quotables
Consumers are spontaneous and if you can catch their attention, that’s going to increase the chance that they will look at your product.
- Jack Taylor
Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good
- Ron Chernow
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Thomas Edison
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
- Bill Gates
Teams only succeed when the players have a unified vision, no matter how much talent or potential there is.
- John Maxwell
For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.
- Elon Musk
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
- Harvey Mackay
Pick the best people, face the reality (the way it is), speak with candor to everything, never lose sight of the relationship with the constituency.
- Jack Welch
I’ve traveled around the world, and what’s so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences.
- Howard Schultz
Nine out of ten businesses fail, so I came up with a foolproof plan — create ten businesses.
- Robert Kiyosaki
No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
- Harvey Mackay
The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn’t affect them.
- Azim Premji
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.
- Elon Musk
California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks’ largest country, with almost 3,000 stores
- Howard Schultz
Most of a tech company’s value will come at least 10 to 15 years in the future.
- Peter Thiel
I don’t feel under-taxed in any way at all.
- Jack Welch
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill
Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‘Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.’ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.
- Bill Gates
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
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
That’s an issue dear to my heart, because I was born in the Soviet Union during the communist era.
- Sergey Brin
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
- Zig Ziglar
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
- Richard Branson
What is closest to my heart is our education program.
- Henry Sy
This is the city of dreamers and time and again it’s the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.
- Michael Bloomberg
The biggest cowards are managers who don’t let people know where they stand.
- Jack Welch
When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.
- Steve Wozniak
Revolution has values, revolution has purpose. Revolution has direction. Revolution has leaders. Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing. And it doesn’t always have to be loud. It doesn’t always have to be violent. It’s just as powerful in it’s stillness.
- Jack Dorsey
It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
- Zig Ziglar
I had a disc giving me a lot of trouble, and I had four surgeries. Then I had a staph infection, so they had to open me up five times in four months… It was in the bottom of my back, the same incision. They should have put a zipper on it.
- Stephen Wynn
If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.
- Jeff Bezos
You can’t build any kind of organization if you’re not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.
- Howard Schultz
The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
- Dale Carnegie
There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.
- Bill Gates
What options expensing will determine is job creation and job loss, … This is why we are debating it so strongly and I’m proud to champion it.
- John Chambers
The idea is to have relationships where you make money and the other guy makes money, too. That’s how a business keeps its team together.
- Russell Simmons
It’s not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
- Zig Ziglar
Young people in China and Hong Kong are the future of the motherland.
- Cheng Yu-tung
The single reason for a salesperson’s existence is to get the Buyer’s commitment. Just how poor are salespeople at their jobs? In a study of professional sales people (those who sell full time), 50% failed to ask for the buyer’s commitment to buy.
- Jerry Vass
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
- Winston Churchill
Make your desires clear and reduce them to writing.
- Napoleon Hill
What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.
- Henry Ford
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
- Winston Churchill
If we don’t allow ourselves to make mistakes, we will never invest in things that are radical.
- Jeff Clavier
Sometimes God gives instructions that go against conventional wisdom, such as treating people kindly when they’re hateful. Who really wants to do that? Instructions like that my not always make sense, so that’s why I need to trust and obey the One who inspired them.
- George Foreman
Our improvement and innovative ideas have never been hindered by our proven record, which instead has paved the way for determined, practical development and new directions.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Allow endings.
- Jack Dorsey
If you can’t be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.
- Seth Godin
More people will yell and wave at you to tell you that you forgot to close the gas cap than the amount of people who will stop to tell you that you are going the wrong direction with your life.
- Clay Clark
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
- Andrew Carnegie
Never fear to negotiate, but never negotiate out of fear.
- Jack Nadel
When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
- Walt Disney
My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We’re professionals. That’s what we do. I don’t give a damn about the short-term market implications.
- Stephen Wynn
Another noteworthy aspect is the strong free cash flow of more than €2 billion. This enabled us to reduce net indebtedness to its lowest level since 2006.
- Elmar Degenhart
Its obvious that we don’t know one millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas Edison
We just want to have great people working for us.
- Sergey Brin
I have many children, as you seek you may find that this the last one till he must die before he must reach the becoming of mankind. Many men have failed but i have surpassed their expectation of being a Jedi master.
- Yoda
My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don’t keep score.
- Harvey Mackay
There is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
After all God doesn’t want you to be an imitation of someone else. You should be the original you were created to be. There is an anointing on your life, an empowerment. Not to be somebody else, but to be you. If you let people squeeze you into their molds and you bow down to their pressure to try to please your critics, it not only takes away your uniqueness, but it also lessens the favor on your life.
- Joel Olsteen
Leadership qualities of Effective Leaders:
- Jack Welch
Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
- Jack Welch
The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.
- Elon Musk
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.
- Steve Ballmer
In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history.
- Michael Dell
Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can’t control.
- Michael Bloomberg
When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.
- Sergey Brin
The secret of your success is found in your daily routine
- John Maxwell
It’s Almost Impossible to Overinvest in Becoming the Market Leader.
- Seth Godin
I’m glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That’s cool.
- Elon Musk
The [Henderson] Group adopted a conservative approach in replenishing its land bank and focused its resources to convert agricultural land holdings in hand into development land in the past year with a view to bringing down the cost of land replenishment and good progress has been made in this respect.
- Lee Shau Kee
It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
- Joel Olsteen
our skills and talent, but above all, be tenacious. See yourself as victorious–which means never giving up
- Donald Trump
America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you’ll be valued highly.
- Tadashi Yanai
Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct. Today, the differences have blurred between these customer segments and Cisco is in a unique position to provide the industry’s broadest family of products united under a consistent architecture designed to help our customers improve productivity and profitability.
- John Chambers
When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn’t let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I’d read something like, you know, ‘Subtle hints of cassis.’
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Fear is one of the worst things in business.
- Jack Nadel
If you treat them like children, then get ready for your company to turn into one big Barney episode.
- Ben Horowitz
You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.
- Elon Musk
Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
- Larry Page
Casualness causes casualties.
- Tim Redmond
Competition is a sin.
- John D. Rockefeller
I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
- Donald Trump
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Obviously I knew it was a great opportunity but I wasn’t expecting something as big as right now, what we see in Macau.
- Lui Che Woo
The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.
- Walt Disney
I have worked at Nike and its predecessor company for 48 years. Some might call me a short timer.
- Phil Knight
Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
- Steve Martin
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to gain mighty triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither gain much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Humans are distinguished from other species by our ability to work miracles. We call these miracles technology.
- Peter Thiel
Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
- Bill Gates
It’s true that every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer.
- Peter Thiel
I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.
- Elon Musk
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gaining confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control. They’re in the control.
- Tom Landry
Simply put, your job is to prepare yourself and your business for growth.
- Michael Gerber
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
- George Soros
My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn’t have any impact on the company.
- Alexei Mordashov
