The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simply. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out, the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish, the other selfish. One is universally admired, the other universally condemned.
- Dale Carnegie
Notable Quotables
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
- Thomas Edison
What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination.
- Zig Ziglar
Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.
- Phil Knight
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
- Dale Carnegie
Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.
- Bill Gates
Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.
- Jack Welch
Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.
- Zig Ziglar
(Physics is) a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
- Elon Musk
This is indicative of how quickly CEO caution can put the foot on the brake.
- John Chambers
Success is one thing you can’t pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments every day.
- Zig Ziglar
I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.
- Joel Olsteen
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
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 problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
- Seth Godin
The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
- Bill Gates
I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best.
- Winston Churchill
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
- Bill Gates
The lizard brain is hungry, scared, angry, and horny.The lizard brain only wants to eat and be safe.The lizard brain will fight (to the death) if it has to, but would rather run away. It likes a vendetta and has no trouble getting angry.The lizard brain cares what everyone else thinks, because status in the tribe is essential to its survival.A squirrel runs around looking for nuts, hiding from foxes, listening for predators, and watching for other squirrels. The squirrel does this because that’s all it can do. All the squirrel has is a lizard brain.The only correct answer to ‘Why did the chicken cross the road?’ is ‘Because it’s lizard brain told it to.’ Wild animals are wild because the only brain they posses is a lizard brain.The lizard brain is not merely a concept. It’s real, and it’s living on the top of your spine, fighting for your survival. But, of course, survival and success are not the same thing.The lizard brain is the reason you’re afraid, the reason you don’t do all the art you can, the reason you don’t ship when you can. The lizard brain is the source of the resistance.
- Seth Godin
The interview process takes twelve to fifteen hoursof your team’s time. This process is expensive for your team, so you should vet people in advance. A technique I use is to email the references and say, Rate this person one to ten. No one’s going to reply a five or a three by email; that means they hate the candidate. Call me is usually the response for a sub-seven rating. At the same time, nobody is going to reply with a ten. What you’re really looking for is a bunch of eights and nines. This is an exceptionally quick referencing system when you’re trying to triage a list.
- Reid Hoffman
The future of the world’s film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.
- Wang Jianlin
Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.
- Michael Dell
I’m an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.
- Thomas Edison
Every day were saying, ‘How can we keep this customer happy?’ How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don’t, somebody else will.
- Bill Gates
I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.
- Sara Blakely
My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.
- Donald Trump
It’s absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.
- Zig Ziglar
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.
- John C. Maxwell
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Dale Carnegie
Out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
- Ben Horowitz
Extraordinary benefits also accrue to the tiny majority with the guts to quit early and refocus their efforts on something new.
- Seth Godin
Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.
- Winston Churchill
Even god doesn’t propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?
- Dale Carnegie
This could easily end up one of the driest winters ever, unless things switch around.
- Ed Clark
Today, we’ve begun to make the extraordinary historic films of the National Archives available to the world for the first time online. Students and researchers whether in San Francisco or Bangladesh can watch remarkable video such as World War II newsreels and the story of Apollo 11 — the historic first landing on the Moon.
- Sergey Brin
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
- Wayne Gretzky
Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work.
- Aliko Dangote
The Group adopts a two-pronged strategy in its business development in mainland China. In the prime cities, the Group targets those prime sites with heavy pedestrian flow and easy access for development into large-scale complexes of exceptional design and quality. In the second-tier cities, which are mostly provincial capitals or municipalities with a preponderance of middle class residents, the Group focuses on large-scale developments so as to achieve an efficient use of land as well as long-term appreciation in property value.
- Lee Shau Kee
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
- Winston Churchill
Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren’t as early as Tencent.
- Ma Huateng
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
- George Soros
Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that’s fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
- Bryan Adams
When launching something new, you have to go for it—“playing not to lose” can never be an option.
- Jack Welch
Purpose is a soft virtue — but it’s what gives you steel in your spine.
- Rich Karlgaard
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grandmaster José Raúl Capablanca put it well: to succeed, “you must study the endgame before everything else.
- Peter Thiel
Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
- Bill Gates
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- Zig Ziglar
You can’t just let nature run wild.
- Walt Disney
Everything rises and falls on leadership.
- John C. Maxwell
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817–1862)
- Timothy Ferriss
It would be nice to design a real briefcase – you open it up and it’s your computer but it also stores your books.
- Steve Wozniak
Consensus decisions about executives almost always sway the process away from strength and toward lack of weakness.
- Ben Horowitz
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
- Thomas Edison
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
- Elon Musk
Zero to One is about how to build companies that create new things. It draws on everything I’ve learned directly as a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir and then an investor in hundreds of startups, including Facebook and SpaceX.
- Peter Thiel
Mr. Ford’s most rapid strides became noticable from the time he became a personal friend of Thomas A. Edison, and you will begin to understand what the influence of one mind upon another can accomplish.
- Napoleon Hill
I like winning. There’s also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
- Carl Icahn
I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there – a project a week.
- Seth Godin
The fallout from the US sub-prime issue, turbulence on global financial markets and the resulting credit tightening, slow-down in the global economies and increasing inflationary pressure all threaten to pose a drag on the economic growth in Hong Kong.
- Lee Shau Kee
The world is still in deleveraging.
- Ray Dalio
I focus on giving specific, real-time coaching so my teammates can benefit immediately. Larry Senn taught me a very effective tool that works in both individual and team settings. Start out by sharing, here’s what you appreciate about a person’s work. By showing appreciation, you are setting the stage for acceptance of constructive suggestions. Then offer suggestions by saying, and you can be even more effective if you do such and such. And is a much better word than but because it’s additive by buillyng on a positive versus the usually negative but everyone is expecting to hear.
- David Novak
One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded.
- Ben Horowitz
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
- Warren Buffett
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
- Bill Gates
America’s leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.
- Howard Schultz
Indeed, if there is any one secret” to an enduring great company, it is the ability to manage continuity and change—a discipline that must be consciously practiced, even by the most visionary of companies.
- James C. Collins
Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.
- Phil Knight
Become genuinely interested in other people.
- Dale Carnegie
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.
- Winston Churchill
People’s favorite topic is themselves.
- Dale Carnegie
The problem with common sense is that it’s not really that common. – David Novak CEO of Yum! Brands
- David Novak
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
- Peter Drucker
When you walk in God’s favor, His blessings will chase you down and overtake you.
- Joel Olsteen
Hay dos errores que podemos cometer en el camino hacia la verdad. No recorrer todo el camino, y no empezar.
- Siddhartha Gautama
Good action today will produce good living tomorrow.
- Zig Ziglar
We sold ‘Seinfeld’ all over the world but it was a very specific kind of show. In some countries it went down really well, in others they hated it.
- Jerry Seinfeld
One who starts a business without written plans of any kind, without a pro-forma or any concept of their overall profitability per customer, yet believes that if they work hard enough and give enough money away to those in need that eventually they will not be in need.
- Clay Clark
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
- Elon Musk
I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk.
- Oprah Winfrey
If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
- Donald Trump
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
- Andrew Carnegie
It’s no fun to protest on an empty stomach.
- Michael Bloomberg
We’re all working together, that’s the secret.
- Sam Walton
Great companies are built on great products.
- Elon Musk
Our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read.
- Harvey Mackay
Superstition of Prejudice.
- Napoleon Hill
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
- Joel Olsteen
The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we’re just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.
- Tadashi Yanai
Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
- Steve Wozniak
Success doesn’t make you and failure doesn’t break you.
- Zig Ziglar
In my experience, an effective mission statement basically answers one question: How do we intend to win in this business?
- Jack Welch
I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
- Elon Musk
It certainly wasn’t where we were planning to be.
- Simon Wolfson
I think people will walk into the Starbucks store and overnight recognize the significant difference between what Starbucks represents day-in and day-out and all the other coffee companies that have been serving coffee in India for so many years.
- Howard Schultz
The Overseas Chinese habit is to save a lot and make a lot of friends.
- Lee Shau Kee
