The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
- Anthony Robbins
Notable Quotables
I always follow 4E’s wrapped in a ‘P’.
- Jack Welch
Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I’d put myself in the latter category. But I’d never call myself a normal designer of anything.
- Steve Wozniak
This isn’t stealing this is standing on the shoulders of giants.
- David Novak
Every pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, but every optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.
- Sara Blakely
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
- Peter Drucker
Don’t manage – lead change before you have to.
- Jack Welch
Well, sometimes you just don’t like somebody.
- Henry Ford
Resposibility is the price of greatness.
- Winston Churchill
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn’t matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn’t matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method.
- Timothy Ferriss
What is measured improves.
- Peter Drucker
Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.
- Tadashi Yanai
The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
- Bill Gates
When you own your choices, you own their consequences.
- Jack Welch
The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
- George Soros
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
- Walt Disney
We think we’re going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java.
- Larry Ellison
Separate performance from people.
- David Robinson
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
- Peter Drucker
You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
- Zig Ziglar
My God, these guys don’t even know what the return-on-investment will be on this thing.
- James C. Collins
The market’s going to move with tremendous speed. If there is such a thing as a killer app, video is it.
- John Chambers
If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.
- John C. Maxwell
I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It’s basically a mini-country unto itself.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
In a vacuum of feedback, there is almost no chance that your company will perform optimally.
- Ben Horowitz
Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.
- Steve Wozniak
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
- Warren Buffett
Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.
- Reid Hoffman
The better at communicating you are, and the more people you communicate to, the better your cash flow will be.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Differentiation (rating and evaluating people) Develops Great Organizations. Differentiation is hard, anybody who finds it easy doesn’t belong in the organization, and anyone who can’t do it falls in the same category…It is important for companies to continually remove the bottom 10 percent of their employees anually.
- Jack Welch
With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.
- Elon Musk
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
- Peter Drucker
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle…
- Napoleon Hill
At the start of any business, keeping the cash flowing in is the entrepreneur’s most IMPORTANT JOB.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The way of the warrior: keep death in mind at all times. If a warrior keeps death in mind at all times and lives as though each day might be his last, he will conduct himself properly in all his actions.
- Principle of the Bushido
IT’S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward.
- Jack Welch
God will never ask you for something without first depositing it within you. If you will dare to take a step of faith, you will discover gifts inside that you never before realized were there.
- Joel Olsteen
Perhaps the most important thing that I learned as an entrepreneur was to focus on what I needed to get right and stop worrying about all the things that I did wrong or might do wrong.
- Ben Horowitz
I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.
- Rupert Murdoch
…The greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.
- Seth Godin
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
- Bill Gates
We, we – as I say, ,we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that indutjrises are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.
- Richard Branson
When I was growing up my dad would encourage my brother and me to fail. We would be sitting at the dinner table and he would ask, so what did you guys fail at this week? If we didn’t have something to contribute, he would be disappointed. When I did fail at something, he’d high-five me. What I didn’t realize at the time was that he was completely reframing my definition of failure at a young age. To me, failure means not trying; failure isn’t the outcome. If I have to look at myself in the mirror and say, I didn’t try that because I was scared, that is failure.
- Sara Blakely
If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
- Zig Ziglar
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
- Dale Carnegie
Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don’t think so.
- Dale Carnegie
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
I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned so it evens up for me.
- Jay-Z
One reason to buy a watch (or a book) is because you want to possess it, show it off, give it to your grandchildren. Holding a book is a luxury, one for which you pay a premium.
- Seth Godin
You don’t ever want to sell, you want customers to sell.
- Clay Clark
Look, I’m a passionate entrepreneur. I’m like fire and brimstone sometimes. And so there are times when I’ll go—I’ll get too into the weeds and too into the debate, because I’m so passionate about it.
- Travis Kalanick
A startup is a team of people on a mission, and a good culture is just what that looks like on the inside.
- Peter Thiel
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
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
Nobody in the heavens above or on the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth will ever object to your saying: ‘I may be wrong. Let’s examine the facts.
- Dale Carnegie
Successful storytelling builds brand equity, and businesses with high brand equity don’t need to draw as much attention to themselves and their achievements as those that are still establishing their value to the customer.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still.
- Dale Carnegie
Make it easy to believe.
- Seth Godin
To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.
- Vladimir Potanin
The problem with New Year’s resolutions – and resolutions to ‘get in better shape’ in general, which are very amorphous – is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn’t work. I don’t care if you’re a world-class CEO – you’ll quit.
- Timothy Ferriss
When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.
- Joel Olsteen
There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.
- Winston Churchill
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
- Thomas Edison
Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It’s not a popular position.
- Bill Gates
I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It’s got the market. It’s got consumer confidence and it’s got banks throwing – I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
- Jack Welch
The Buck Stops Here
- Harry Truman
For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.
- Bill Gates
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
- Benjamin Franklin
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability you have.
- Zig Ziglar
MOMENT IN BUSINESS happens only once.
- Peter Thiel
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
The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.
- Peter Drucker
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
- Og Mandino
I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same – they give the exact same advice. It’s like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.
- Ben Horowitz
The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
- Rupert Murdoch
But no parties could live under such labels as Petitioners and Abhorrers. Instead of naming themselves they named each other. The term “Whig” had described a sour, bigoted, canting, money-grubbing Scots Presbyterian. Irish Papist bandits ravaging estates and manor-houses had been called “Tories”.
- Winston Churchill
Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding.
- Sara Blakely
When you are committed to doing what’s right, you are sowing seeds for God’s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.
- Joel Olsteen
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
- Ben Horowitz
We are each responsible for our own life – no other person is or even can be.
- Oprah Winfrey
My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.
- Howard Schultz
Consumers, we’re too busy to pay attention to advertising, but we’re desperate to find good stuff that solves our problems.
- Seth Godin
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best….”
- Thomas Edison
I’m not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
- Vagit Alekperov
[Luke:] I can’t believe it. [Yoda:] That is why you fail.
- Yoda
When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
- Jack Ma
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
I’ve always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.
- Sara Blakely
Capitalism works.
- Michael Bloomberg
The 1990s have a good image. We tend to remember them as a prosperous, optimistic decade that happened to end with the internet boom and bust. But many of those years were not as cheerful as our nostalgia holds. We’ve long since forgotten the global context for the 18 months of dot-com mania at decade’s end.
- Peter Thiel
Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.
- Bill Gates
He climbs highest who helps another up.
- Zig Ziglar
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
- Yoda
You can expect what you accept.
- Anonymous
Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.
- Bill Gates
When you start a company, you’re basically jumping off a cliff. You don’t have any sense of where you’re going to land, what to do when you land, or what you should be doing inmidair. It’s very very scary. But it’s much easier when you have somebody to commiserate with you who knows what you’re going through, and who you know will always be on your side.
- Seth Goldman
Save someone’s face once and your influence with him rises. Save his face every time you can, and there is practically nothing he won’t do for you.
- Dale Carnegie
