The subject of this book is managing oneself for effectiveness.
- Peter Drucker
Notable Quotables
Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
- Sam Walton
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
One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.
- Larry Ellison
I’m a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
- Donald Trump
I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful – it depends on how they’re managed.
- Ray Dalio
[In January 2011] We have built the simplest way to accept credit cards. It’s a little tiny device that we give away for free, and you just download some softwares from the app store and plug it in to your mobile phone or iPad and suddenly you can take credit cards. So if you’re a tax accountant or a lawyer or doctor or even a hair stylist, you can now accept credit cards.
- Jack Dorsey
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
- Dale Carnegie
Superstition of Prejudice.
- Napoleon Hill
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
Today, all arrows point toward the biotech, nanotech, and information technology industries, and the convergence among them.
- Jack Welch
The things you’re not doing are the things you should actually be focused on.
- Ben Horowitz
If you pay people peanuts, you will get monkeys.
- Andy Pearson
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
- Dale Carnegie
Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
- Larry Page
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Do it. Try it. Fix it.
- Sam Walton
My father encouraged me to study something I was interested in, not necessarily the basis for a career.
- Michael Balmuth
Thank your opponents sincerely for their interest. Anyone who takes the time to disagree with you is interested in the same things you are. Think of them as people who really want to help you, and you may turn your opponents into friends.
- Dale Carnegie
Don’t be impatient. It’s not over until God says it’s over.
- Joel Olsteen
I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn’t turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.
- Steve Martin
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
- Andrew Carnegie
People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.
- Mark Zuckerberg
There is no middle ground: either don’t throw any punches, or strike hard and end it quickly.
- Peter Thiel
The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‘Does your teacher use class time well?’ and, ‘When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?
- Bill Gates
It’s not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that’s important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.
- Zig Ziglar
greatness is first and foremost a matter of conscious choice and discipline.
- James C. Collins
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
- Og Mandino
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
- Joel Olsteen
Nike is not about going to a ball game. It’s a business.
- Phil Knight
Delay taking a salary until your business is generating cash flow from sales…by delaying taking a salary, you can reinvest sales to help grow your business.
- Robert Kiyosaki
This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
[On the first twitter tweet] The first tweet that was actually written by a human was by me and it was inviting co-workers.
- Jack Dorsey
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
- Henry Ford
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
- Peter Drucker
Stop selling. Start helping.
- Zig Ziglar
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
Teaching Fire a LessonFire is hot. That’s what it does. If you get burned by fire, you can be annoyed at yourself, but being angry at fire doesn’t do you much good. And trying to teach the fire a lesson so it won’t be hot next time is certainly not time well spent.Our inclination is to give fire a pass, because it’s not human. But human beings are similar, in that they’re not going to change any time soon either.
- Seth Godin
Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.
- Bill Gates
Time has its role to play in one’s behaviour and how one conducts himself in society. With the passage of time, we master our lives better and become more refined and polished, step by step.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success.
- Dale Carnegie
I’ve got some good days, I’ve got some bad. (But my) game has definitely improved.
- Ed Clark
We are continuing to see a number of signs that could be interpreted with the appropriate caveats as optimistic.
- John Chambers
I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.
- Joel Olsteen
Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
- Ray Kroc
There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.
- Michael Bloomberg
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
- Zig Ziglar
Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.
- Winston Churchill
Do you have a real interest in people who work for you? Most good leaders have that – it’s hard to get someone to follow you if they feel like you hate ’em.
- Ben Horowitz
My parents got one bedroom, my three sisters got the other bedroom, and my brother and I made do with a rollaway in the kitchen.
- David Green
On average, our total annual realized income is less than 7 percent of our wealth. In other words, we live on less than 7 percent of our wealth.
- Thomas J Stanley
Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade – and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.
- George Soros
Chinese people, young people, they don’t go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.
- Jack Ma
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
- James C. Collins
We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don’t need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to be a dwindling voice in our culture. For the right librarian, this is the chance of a lifetime.
- Seth Godin
We ride roughshod over the feelings of others, getting our own way, finding fault, issuing threats, criticising a child or an employee in front of others, without even considering the hurt to the other person’s pride. Whereas a few minutes’ thought, a considerate word or two, a genuine understanding of the other person’s attitude, would go so far toward alleviating the sting!
- Dale Carnegie
the only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.
- Dale Carnegie
Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
- Yoda
Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
- Og Mandino
When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.
- Jerry Seinfeld
There’s an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it’s going to spread.
- Jack Dorsey
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
- Timothy Ferriss
I have mentioned before that financial intelligence is a synergy of accounting, investing, marketing and law. Combine those four technical skills and making money with money is easier.
- Robert Kiyosaki
What this industry is about is back to the basics in the new Internet economy; and the basics are profitability, cash flow, productivity and market-share gains.
- John Chambers
Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I’m going to continue fighting for the end user.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe, it feels reliable.
- Seth Godin
My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
- Mark Zuckerberg
In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It’s very expensive.
- Bill Gates
I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
- Elon Musk
Success is determined by your daily agenda
- John Maxwell
In between personal sales (salespeople obviously required) and traditional advertising (no salespeople required) there is a dead zone.
- Peter Thiel
Faith is easy. I think people complicate it.
- Joel Olsteen
In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I’ve ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
- Jack Welch
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
- Seth Godin
My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that’s what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Establish a core value that drives the business and helps promote it in perpetuity.
- Ben Horowitz
Young people in China and Hong Kong are the future of the motherland.
- Cheng Yu-tung
People are more likely to accept an order if they have had a part in the decision that caused the order to be issued.
- Dale Carnegie
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
- Aristotle
If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed.
- Winston Churchill
Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
- Howard Schultz
Poor sales rather than bad product is the most common cause of failure.
- Peter Thiel
the expression one wears on one’s face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one’s back
- Dale Carnegie
Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.
- Winston Churchill
We want Google to be the third half of your brain.
- Sergey Brin
As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.
- Elon Musk
Named must your fear be before banish it you can.
- Yoda
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
- Peter Drucker
It has been almost a decade since the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. Hong Kong has gone through both good times and bad times. During the past decade, Hong Kong has undoubtedly played an increasingly important role in the economic development of China.
- Cheng Yu-tung
You must go through the process before you get the product.
- Paul Pressey
We live in an age where everything is based on the short term.
- Howard Schultz
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
- Jeff Bezos
You’ve got to take a big jump to make it. You’ve got to have great big balls.
- Forrest Ray
As CEO, you should have an opinion on absolutely everything. You should have an opinion on every forecast, every product plan, every presentation, and even every comment. Let people know what you think. If you like someone’s comment, give her the feedback. If you disagree, give her the feedback. Say what you think. Express yourself.
- Ben Horowitz
It’s extremely difficult to find smart people willing to start useful projects. Because sometimes what you start doesn’t work. The fact that it doesn’t work every time should give you confidence, because it means you’re doing something that frightens others.
- Seth Godin
Several families interviewed for this book recommended the oldest persuasive tool known to man: bribery. Each child is given some amounts of virtual cash, 25-30 cents, for each hour of good behaviour. The same amount is subtracted from their accounts for breaking the rules. All purchases for fun – whether souvenirs, ice cream, or otherwise – come out of their own individual accounts. No balance, no goodies. This often requires more self-control on the part of the parents than the children.
- Timothy Ferriss
Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option.
- Howard Schultz
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.
- Winston Churchill
Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
- Winston Churchill
