I can become someone’s miracle.
- Joel Olsteen
Notable Quotables
I was so mad I ran a personal record.
- Phil Knight
As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.
- Donald Trump
The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realise in some subtle way that you realise their importance, and recognise it sincerely.
- Dale Carnegie
On an opponent:”He loves the working man. He loves to see him work.
- Winston Churchill
Everything in our society is so purposeful.
- Sara Blakely
Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to other people.
- Zig Ziglar
Don’t sit around depressed and discouraged. Get a new vision for your life.
- Joel Olsteen
I’m pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don’t see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I’m petrified of being wrong.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
They didn’t use discussion as a sham process to let people have their say” so that they could buy in” to a predetermined decision. The process was more like a heated scientific debate, with people engaged in a search for the best answers.
- James C. Collins
‘We are interested in others when they are interested in us.
- Publilius Syrus
One of More of the Six Basic Fears.
- Napoleon Hill
I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.
- Bill Gates
This is Day 1 for the Internet and, if we execute well, for Amazon.com. Today, online commerce saves customers money and precious time. Tomorrow, through personalization, online commerce will accelerate the very process of discovery. Amazon.com uses the Internet to create real value for its customers and, by doing so, hopes to create an enduring franchise, even in established and large markets.
- Jeff Bezos
I don’t make deals for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.
- Donald Trump
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
- Warren Buffett
With an export-driven economy, Hong Kong is unavoidably affected by any hiccup in the outside world.
- Cheng Yu-tung
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
- Warren Buffett
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
- Peter Drucker
I don’t know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.
- James C. Collins
It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous…
- Winston Churchill
In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Discipline is hard–harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can’t even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.
- Atul Gawande
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates
Japan’s biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
- Tadashi Yanai
It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.
- Alisher Usmanov
The only antidote is simplicity. The simplicity of leading through truth and trust. Ceaselessly seeking the former, relentlessly building the latter. In every decision, in every action. Truth is a determined pursuit, a personal and unquenchable fire, burning to know what is really happening inside the company and out.
- Jack Welch
When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you’re allowing that person to control you.
- Joel Olsteen
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards–and living up to them–is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.
- Seth Godin
You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that’s it.
- Mukesh Ambani
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.
- Zig Ziglar
Going the extra mile is the action of rendering more and better service than that for which you are presently paid. When you go the extra mile, the Law of Compensation comes into play.
- Napoleon Hill
Planning is arrogant and inflexible. Instead you should try things out.
- Peter Thiel
I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
- Steve Martin
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
- Winston Churchill
If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself.
- Stephen Wynn
I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.
- Bill Gates
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
- Napoleon Hill
Incineration does not equal human digestion, eating a fireplace log will not store the same number of calories as burning one will produce.
- Timothy Ferriss
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
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love — He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us — nature did it all — not the gods of the religions.
- Thomas Edison
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
- Walt Disney
Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
- Dale Carnegie
ZERO TO ONE EVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.
- Peter Thiel
I don’t generally read a lot of fiction.
- Bill Gates
If you have enough push, you don’t have to worry about the pull.
- Zig Ziglar
Puffery makes you look weak and not very bright. Representation makes you look strong and smart.
- Jerry Vass
I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It’s their work that I’m supporting. So it’s not me doing it.
- George Soros
You simply cannot manage people to better performance if you do not give candid, consistent feedback through a system that is loaded with integrity
- Jack Welch
Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.
- Dale Carnegie
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
- Bill Gates
It’s vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.
- Joel Olsteen
There is no such thing as a good tax.
- Winston Churchill
I wish I could do a lot of things different. I’m not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I’d go, ‘Okay, I’ll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.’ Really. But I’ve made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?
- Steve Martin
The son has not caught me in bed for 50 years.
- Thomas Jefferson
Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.”
- Bill Gates
We had been kicked out of one bank… The second, it was touch and go…
- Phil Knight
I want people to learn what democracy means.
- Jack Ma
What has sustained us through these years? Trust. Dedication. Discipline.
- Cheng Yu-tung
God can do in a split second what might otherwise take you many years.
- Joel Olsteen
My role has been to pick good people and give them the maximum authority and responsibility.
- Sam Walton
So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.
- Sergey Brin
I own my business. My business doesn’t own me.
- Cherie Ve Ard
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
- Winston Churchill
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
- Bill Gates
If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.
- Muhammad Ali
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
- Elon Musk
The reason is that good management itself was the root cause. Managers played the game the way it was supposed to be played. The very decision-making and resource-allocation processes that are key to the success of established companies are the very processes that reject disruptive technologies: listening carefully to customers; tracking competitors’ actions carefully; and investing resources to design and build higher-performance, higher-quality products that will yield greater profit. These are the reasons why great firms stumbled or failed when confronted with disruptive technological change.
- Clayton M. Christensen
One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
- Rupert Murdoch
I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.
- Elon Musk
A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.
- Zig Ziglar
An Enemy Called Average
- Jim Collins
The world is changing… I don’t, as a consumer, want advertising that’s not relevant. If we’re going to take a side, let’s take the side of the consumer.
- Charles Ergen
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
- Walt Disney
It’s hard to make a living when you are in school…
- Michael Dell
My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don’t keep score.
- Harvey Mackay
The secret of being wrong isn’t to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn’t fatal. The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.
- Seth Godin
If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
- Jeff Bezos
Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.
- Lisa Stone
Your best days are not behind you. They’re in front of you.
- Joel Olsteen
I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way—by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
- Richard P. Feynman
I’m a job creator.
- Stephen Wynn
To grow your company explosively you must have leaders, not just efficient managers.
- John Maxwell
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
- Bill Gates
I have the courage to surround myself with people who are smarter than me.
- Andrew Carnegie
The values of life are most important.
- Leonardo Del Vecchio
Superstition of Prejudice.
- Napoleon Hill
Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
- Zig Ziglar
Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
- Bill Gates
Smith never wavered. Twenty-five years later, Kimberly-Clark owned Scott Paper outright and beat Procter & Gamble in six of eight product categories.12 In retirement, Smith reflected on his exceptional performance, saying simply, I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job.
- James C. Collins
Russia is not a homogenous country, it’s a very fragmented country.
- Alexei Mordashov
A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.
- Bill Gates
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.
- Jerry Seinfeld
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
Selling and delivering a product is at least as important as the product itself.
- Peter Thiel
Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.
- Ray Dalio
