What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We’ve termed this ‘reactionary angiogenesis.’
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Notable Quotables
Extraordinary results are directlydetermined by how narrow you can make your focus.
- Gary Keller
If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.
- Larry Page
To me, this is about preserving history and making it available to everyone.
- Sergey Brin
It’s no fun to protest on an empty stomach.
- Michael Bloomberg
I am pleased with the strides we’ve made in our global equipment business where revenues grew 41 percent this past quarter and 37 percent year-to-date, … The strong dollar continues to negatively impact our European results constant dollar revenues in Europe were up 23 percent in the second quarter.
- Phil Knight
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
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.
- Timothy Ferriss
Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
- Joel Olsteen
When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
- Jack Ma
Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
- Dale Carnegie
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas Edison
About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.
- Reed Hastings
believe God is going before my child lining up the right people to come across his path, taking away the wrong people, breaking every force of darkness, opening his eyes to every deception, and giving him the wisdom to make good choices to fulfill his destiny.” The Scripture tells us that the people of Israel.
- Joel Olsteen
The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.
- Albert Einstein
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
- Zig Ziglar
There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.
- Walt Disney
Polio’s pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it’s just there as a gift for the rest of time.
- Bill Gates
Facing reality sounds simple, but it isn’t. I found it hard to get people to see a situation for what it is and not for what it was, or what they hoped it would be.
- Jack Welch
It is not your aptitude but your ATTITUDE that decides your altitude in life.
- 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 deal with more practical issues of the Bible.
- Joel Olsteen
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
- Henry Ford
There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don’t be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.
- Harvey Mackay
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
- Bill Gates
In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
- Bill Gates
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not to put this plan into action.
- Napoleon Hill
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
- Winston Churchill
I believe it’s less risky long-term to embrace change.
- Charles Ergen
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. It’s an awesome responsibility.
- Zig Ziglar
Small groups of people bound together by a sense of mission have changed the world for the better. The easiest explanation for this is negative: it’s hard to develop new things in big organizations, and it’s even harder to do it by yourself. Bureaucratic hierarchies move slowly, and entrenched interests shy away from risk. In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now).
- Peter Thiel
There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
- Timothy Ferriss
I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Don’t panic.
- David Novak
From wherever you are, you can go anywhere you want to go if you pick the right roads to travel.
- Zig Ziglar
Write your life story as if it has already happened and live it out using your faith in yourself, and in the reality that you are embracing.
- Clay Clark
No one has any idea what’s next… the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it’s delaying the recovery.
- Stephen Wynn
IT’S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward.
- Jack Welch
Much about success is just the result of simply the ability to follow up, follow through, and finish what we started.
- Zig Ziglar
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.
- Elon Musk
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
- Oprah Winfrey
I have ways of making money that you know nothing about…(if you’re firm won’t sell) you will stand alone, Your firm can never make any more money in Cleveland. No use trying to do business in competition with Standard Oil Company. If you do (continue to fight) it will end in your being wiped out.
- John D. Rockefeller
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
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
- Napoleon Hill
Learn to say No to the good so that you can say Yes to your best.
- John Maxwell
Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.
- Herb Kelleher
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
- Napoleon Hill
We all prospect, and don’t even know we’re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you’re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.
- Zig Ziglar
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
- John C. Maxwell
All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.
- Donald Trump
A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!
- Bill Gates
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
- Henry Ford
David Novak CEO of YUM Brands (on crisis management)
- David Novak
Start calling yourself healed, happy, whole, blessed, and prosperous. Stop talking to God about how big your mountains are, and start talking to your mountains about how big your God is!
- Joel Olsteen
People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, ‘Soave,’ and say, ‘Oh, O.K., cool.’
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It’s really counterintuitive.
- Elon Musk
There’s no mystery in business success. If you do each day’s task successfully and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.
- John D. Rockefeller
You can’t worry about the mistakes, because you’re going to make a lot of them. You’ve got to be thinking about your next move.
- Ben Horowitz
I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned so it evens up for me.
- Jay-Z
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
- Bill Gates
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I had already started the learning process by organizing a tour of some of the best companies out there to find out exactly what it was that made them great. I went back to the Partners’ Council and asked them to help me study the best practices of the best companies we could find. We would then use then findings to strengthen our company.
- David Novak
If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.
- Bill Gates
We want to be the most predictable, boring growth company.
- John Chambers
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
- Bill Gates
Even freebies must be delivered with a certain salesmanship or the receiver does not perceived the true value of the gift.
- Jerry Vass
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
- Zig Ziglar
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make
- Donald Trump
What did I do that was right—and in what way could I have improved my performance? What lessons can I learn from that experience?
- Dale Carnegie
I think what we’re lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.
- Howard Schultz
Urm. Put a shield on my saber I must.
- Yoda
The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don’t think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.
- Hugh Jackman
Never forget, the real secret of giving advice is this: Once you’ve given it, don’t concern yourself with whether it is followed or not, and refrain from saying ‘I told you so.’
- Harvey Mackay
China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.
- Bill Gates
Get the right people on the bus and get the wrong people off of the bus.
- Jim Collins
Most good ideas are already out there, and to learn about them, all you have to do is ask the right people.
- David Novak
On all open platforms, regardless of whether it’s Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It’s the largest revenue segment. And it’s the same for Tencent.
- Ma Huateng
It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
- Ronald Reagan
Kickstarter isn’t a profit center, it’s an organizer and an instigator.
- Seth Godin
Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.
- Elon Musk
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
- Andrew Carnegie
Lo que una persona diga de ti no define quién eres. Su opinión de ti no determina tu dignidad propia. Deja que eso te resbale como si fuera agua sobre el plumaje de un pato. Esa persona tiene todo el derecho a tener una opinión, y tú tienes todo el derecho a pasarla por alto.
- Joel Olsteen
Put everything you’ve got into what you’re doing. Be totally focused–nothing should be haphazard.
- Donald Trump
While we remain cautious about the implications of a brief pause in the current 10-year expansion of the U.S. economy, we believe that Cisco has never been better positioned to help our customers solve their two most important business issues: Increasing productivity and creating new sources of revenue.
- John Chambers
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.
- Dale Carnegie
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
- Peter Drucker
God, You said Your favor is not for a season but for a lifetime.
- Joel Olsteen
I like to look for patterns in science and life. It’s what I do.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
- Larry Ellison
The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.
- Jeff Bezos
Where I get my energy is: ‘How can I make it better?’
- Sara Blakely
When my sister and I came along, my father’s political life was completely over. He ran for president the year I was born. So that was the end of it. He had been congressman first, then governor, before all that. So when we came along, he was running the Dayton newspaper.
- Anne Cox Chambers
I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.
- Bill Gates
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they’ve never failed to imitate them.
- Zig Ziglar
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
- Bill Gates
The goal is to be able to live your life the way Michael Jordan played basketball, or Marvin Gaye sang a song. To be able to feel the way you feel when you laugh at a joke, but to feel that way all the time.
- Russell Simmons
Be remarkable Be generous Create art Make judgment calls Connect people and ideas . . . and we have no choice but to reward you.
- Seth Godin
Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.
- Zig Ziglar
I’m not losing any sleep over Dunkin Donuts.
- Howard Schultz
