The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
- Dale Carnegie
Notable Quotables
New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.
- Zig Ziglar
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill
The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country’s future. We are becoming a high-cost and high-risk nation for investment.
- Gina Rinehart
We survive the market volatility and political changes. We cater for the actual need of the people and keep pace with the country.
- Cheng Yu-tung
I start where the last man left off.
- Thomas Edison
I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
- Russell Simmons
Every other country is afraid that China is going to take over the world. China is the only country afraid that it won’t.
- Peter Thiel
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
- Thomas Edison
A road that leads to nowhere is hard to build.
- David Novak
I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.
- Joel Olsteen
It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.
- Richard Harroch
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
- Napoleon Hill
I really believed that fear is contagious.
- Joel Olsteen
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures
- Sam Walton
I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.
- Joel Olsteen
For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn boat.
- Tony Hsieh
Life is a classroom — only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.
- Zig Ziglar
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it’s being implemented is a disaster.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines wont make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa and its about getting a balance.
- Richard Branson
All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.
- Peter Thiel
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
- Henry Ford
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. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.
- George Soros
Ultimately you want to have the entire world’s knowledge connected directly to your mind
- Sergey Brin
People development should be a daily event, integrated into every aspect of your regular goings-on.
- Jack Welch
I’m just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Let’s make it easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
- Jack Dorsey
You can start from where you are with what you’ve got and go to where it is you want to go.
- Zig Ziglar
It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.
- Joel Olsteen
In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.
- Reed Hastings
Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.
- Tadashi Yanai
Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The Statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
- Winston Churchill
Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
- George Washington Carver
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Leadership qualities of Effective Leaders:
- Jack Welch
Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?
- Zig Ziglar
Education is the key to unlock the Golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver
The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.
- Marc Benioff
In fact, stories only magnify the need to have something remarkable (and honest) to say.
- Seth Godin
What I know is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
- Oprah Winfrey
Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
- Dale Carnegie
The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.
- Bill Gates
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
- Winston Churchill
Start believing today that things are going to change for the better. Your best days are still out in front of you.
- Joel Olsteen
Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.
- James C. Collins
I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.
- Elon Musk
In business, equilibrium means stasis, and stasis means death.
- Peter Thiel
I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
- Russell Simmons
Winning is better than losing, but everybody loses when the war isn’t one worth fighting.
- Peter Thiel
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
- Napoleon Hill
It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.
- Bill Gates
You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.
- Jerry Seinfeld
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
- Brian Tracy
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Culture is one of the most precious things a company has…So you must work harder on it than anything else.
- Herb Kelleher
In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It’d be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.
- Steve Martin
Not good — great.
- Jack Welch
With the addition of these volumes, our Gulf Coast region is off to a good start for 2006 in its effort to grow its production. Combined, all regions are now showing growth in both production and reserves which is very attractive, especially considering the organic strategy on which we have predominately focused.
- Dan Dinges
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
- Peter Drucker
I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.
- Joel Olsteen
What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.
- Warren Buffett
When we think about online learning, it’s such ‘early days.’ Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like, ‘Who’s every going to need more than 640K of memory?’
- Reed Hastings
Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
hombre que conozco es superior a mí en algún sentido. En ese sentido, aprendo de él.
- Dale Carnegie
If you are a prospective entrepreneur with the desire to start and build a visionary company but have not yet taken the plunge because you don’t have a great idea,” we encourage you to lift from your shoulders the burden of the great-idea myth. Indeed, the evidence suggests that it might be better to not obsess on finding a great idea before launching a company. Why? Because the great-idea approach shifts your attention away from seeing the company as your ultimate creation.
- James C. Collins
I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it’s a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.
- Sara Blakely
Dr. Carl Jung said: During the past thirty years, people from all the civilized countries of the earth have consulted me. I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among all my patients in the second half of hie, that is to say, over thirty-five, there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
- Dale Carnegie
This the real world, homie, school finished They done stole your dreams, you dunno who did it.
- Kanye West
After putting economics aside, I found that there were two primary reasons why people quit: They hated their manager; generally the employees were appalled by the lack of guidance, career development, and feedback they were receiving. They weren’t learning anything: The company wasn’t investing resources in helping employees develop new skills.
- Ben Horowitz
We will make our products work out of the box.
- Steve Ballmer
Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
- Jack Ma
Insulation prevents you from making the change and finding the understanding you set out to achieve in the first place.
- Seth Godin
Talk in terms of the other person’s interests.
- Dale Carnegie
When I was growing up, I always knew I’d be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
- Sergey Brin
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
- Bill Gates
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
- Aldous Huxley
But there seems to be little correlation between a man’s effectiveness and his intelligence, his imagination or his knowledge.
- Peter Drucker
What is closest to my heart is our education program.
- Henry Sy
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
- Andrew Carnegie
Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing remains permanent in the world, change is just the eternal fact.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Practice is simply preparation for success.
- Zig Ziglar
I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that’s like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.
- David Reuben
You must have a vision and not just a vision but you must have a plan that would make you fulfil that vision.
- Aliko Dangote
Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done. That would be you.
- Seth Godin
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is a buzzer box. Poke it.
- Seth Godin
If you cannot persuade people to do things, you simply will not be a success because you are not an island unto yourself. Everything in life is about persuading people to do what you want them to do.
- David Robinson
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
- John D. Rockefeller
When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?
- Ray Kroc
Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
- Steven Wright
There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
- Andrew Carnegie
I don’t need you to be funny. I don’t want to be entertained.
- Jerry Seinfeld
I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.
- Elon Musk
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into smaller manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
If any of my competitors were drowning, I’d stick a hose in their mouth
- Ray Kroc
