All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Notable Quotables
I have lots of sources of information about what’s going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.
- Steve Ballmer
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
- Dave Barry
Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
- George Washington Carver
Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!
- Joel Olsteen
It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can’t make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.
- Michael Otto
[On an American taking second place in the Olympics] He didn’t win the silver, he lost the gold
- Phil Knight
If the employees come first, then they’re happy….A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy, so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It’s not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.
- Herb Kelleher
If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?
- Brian Tracy
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
- Henry Ford
Inability to Cooperate With Others.
- Napoleon Hill
The internet population is going up and up. I am confident that this will be a huge market.
- Robin Li
Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas Edison
Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people.
- Russell Simmons
One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..
- Joel Olsteen
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
- Norman Vincent Peale
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
I worry about losing a real talent. I hate losing a great leader more than anything. I also hate it when I have to manager out a good person for poor performance or for simply doing something that is not in sync with our values. One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do in my life and I’ve had to do it more than once, is fire a friend.
- David Novak
The habit of doing more than paid for. One of the penalties of leadership is the necessity of willingness upon the part of the leader to do more than he requires of his followers.
- Napoleon Hill
It’s the next opportunity that keeps us motivated.
- Zig Ziglar
Today our challenge is to both imagine and create the new technologies that can make the 21st century more peaceful and prosperous than the 20th.
- Peter Thiel
(after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can’t hang with eagles.
- Joel Olsteen
Your thoughts about your circumstances have you down. On the other hand, you can be in one of the biggest battles of your life, and still be filled with joy and peace and victory – if you simply learn how to choose the right thought. It’s time to think about what you’re thinking about.
- Joel Olsteen
I had learned that for any big idea you had to sell, sell, sell to move the needle at all.
- Jack Welch
Cooperativeness in conversation is achieved when you show that you consider the other person’s ideas and feelings as important as your own.
- Dale Carnegie
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
- Ben Horowitz
Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
- Thomas Edison
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It’s not a popular position.
- Bill Gates
In 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming found that a mysterious antibacterial fungus had grown on a petri dish he’d forgotten to cover in his laboratory: he discovered penicillin by accident. Scientists have sought to harness the power of chance ever since. Modern drug discovery aims to amplify Fleming’s serendipitous circumstances a millionfold: pharmaceutical companies search through combinations of molecular compounds at random, hoping to find a hit.
- Peter Thiel
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
- Thomas Edison
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
- Peter Drucker
Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
- Jack Ma
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
- Dale Carnegie
I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
- Jeff Bezos
One of the first things you learn when you run an engineering organization is that a good quality assurance organization cannot build a high-quality product, but it can tell you when the development team builds a low quality product. Similarly, a high quality human resources organization cannot make you a well-managed company with a great culture, but it can tell you when you and your managers are not getting the job done.
- Ben Horowitz
Would you believe that in 2011 and 2012, Nigeria paid $30 billion in subsidy, money which would have been used to build at least 20 refineries?
- Aliko Dangote
Within the Nasdaq as an example, I do believe that out of the top 100 companies … half of them will not be around five years from now.
- John Chambers
The librarian isn’t a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
- Seth Godin
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
- Warren Buffett
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
Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‘Hey, I did my religious duty.’ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.
- Joel Olsteen
I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.
- Joel Olsteen
We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
- Alexei Mordashov
I’m not a businessman — I’m a business, man.
- Jay-Z
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
- Winston Churchill
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
- Ben Horowitz
I’m enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that’s considered artistic, there’s a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can’t exist without it.
- Steve Martin
The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
- Li Ka-shing
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
- John D. Rockefeller
Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.
- Winston Churchill
Fear itself is quite fear-inducing. Most intelligent people in the world dress it up as something else: optimistic denial.
- Timothy Ferriss
The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.
- Dale Carnegie
Laughter is America’s most important export.
- Walt Disney
For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.
- Vladimir Potanin
This has been a very positive test for Kawasaki.
- Yoda
When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don’t know what you are going to do.
- Larry Ellison
I’ve gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Winston Churchill
You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.
- Ronald Perelman
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
- Thomas Edison
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
- Winston Churchill
I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.
- Jerry Seinfeld
In the middle of that process four power plants just tripped off all at once in unison.
- Ed Clark
We are in turbulent times.
- Lee Shau Kee
There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it.
- Napoleon Hill
Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
- Ben Horowitz
It’s not how far you fall. But how high you bounce that counts.
- Zig Ziglar
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
- John Lennon
[On Howard White] Rather than say to young people that they should have a goal and focus on it, he reverses it: ‘Any road will get you there if you don’t know where you’re going.’ Most often, on reflection, you will grow to understand that what had passed for a funny commnet of the moment has a good deal of wisdom behind it.
- Phil Knight
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
- Napoleon Hill
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
- Napoleon Hill
As long as a person doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, he doesn’t grow.
- John Maxwell
I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
- Robert J. Sawyer
For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.
- James C. Collins
Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.”
- Sam Walton
If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.
- Harvey Mackay
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
- Donald Trump
The reason that I have Global Grind is to communicate ideas to people who might otherwise not be listening.
- Russell Simmons
It’s better to be a pirate than to join the navy.
- Steve Jobs
And the pathetic part of it is that frequently those who have the least justification for a feeling of achievement bolster up their egos by a show of tumult and conceit which is truly nauseating. As Shakespeare put it: … man, proud man, / Drest in a little brief authority, / … Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven / As make the angels weep.
- Dale Carnegie
They did not die because of sickness or anything but because of hunger. I remember that and how people suffered.
- Lui Che Woo
It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.
- John C. Maxwell
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
- Andrew Carnegie
The lesson for business is that we need founders. If anything, we should be more tolerant of founders who seem strange or extreme; we need unusual individuals to lead companies beyond mere incrementalism.
- Peter Thiel
When plans appear into your mind, they will probably flash into your mind through the sixth sense, in the form of an inspiration. This inspiration may be considered a direct telegram, or message from infinite intelligence. Treat it with respect, and act upon it as soon as you receive it. Failure to do this is fatal to your succeess.
- Napoleon Hill
CREATIVE MONOPOLY means new products that benefit everybody and sustainable profits for the creator. Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and a struggle for survival.
- Peter Thiel
If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
- Jeff Bezos
By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.
- Bill Gates
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 believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
- Bill Gates
I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.
- Bill Gates
It’s quite complicated and sounds circular, but we’ve worked out a way of calculate a Web site’s importance.
- Larry Page
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
- Elon Musk
A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
- Steve Wozniak
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they’re having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we’re doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
- Larry Page
Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets
- Steve Jobs
I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.
- Mark Zuckerberg
What products in the marketplace are similar? Who else in the marketplace is doing this successfully? How big is the market?
- Jack Nadel
