Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
- Andrew Carnegie
Notable Quotables
I am very optimistic about china’s growth.
- Dhanin Chearavanont
My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.
- Sara Blakely
Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.”
- Bill Gates
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
Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If not in corporate life, then perhaps in making your church great. If not there, then perhaps a nonprofit, or a community organization, or a class you teach. Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.
- James C. Collins
When life gives you lemons make lemonade!!
- Dale Carnegie
We’re trying to identify the key influencers and make them distribution points.
- Jack Dorsey
You know the funny thing, I don’t get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.
- Donald Trump
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London
We should remember it wasn’t so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.
- Michael Bloomberg
Challenges will present us a good opportunity to improve productivity.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Apart from consolidating our position as a major property developer in Hong Kong, we have also been diversifying into other activities such as hotel businesses, construction and engineering, container terminal services and television industry…
- Cheng Yu-tung
The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
- Zig Ziglar
How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world?
- Reed Hastings
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
- Michael Bloomberg
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
The garden gleams with summer jewelry. We live vy simply—but with all the essentials of life well understood & well provided for—hot baths, cold champagne, new peas, & old brandy.
- Winston Churchill
The beauty of this deal is bringing a clinical expertise. Medco had developed therapeutic resource centers, where they got their pharmacist to have specialties in things like diabetes, heart problems and asthma. Express Scripts took a different approach. We tried to understand why people do what they do with behavioral economics, which is: What drives human behaviors? What drives people to do what they did? By combining those two pieces, we get that much stronger.
- George Paz
A man may be poor; he may have nothing at all except his labour to sell; he may be a manual worker for a weekly wage, but in a free commonwealth he must enjoy as good a right as any lord, or prelate, or capitalist in the country to the integrity of his own political convictions.
- Winston Churchill
From a global CEO and government leader perspective, we remain in a `show- me’ economy.
- John Chambers
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
- Napoleon Hill
A business with a good definite plan will always be underrated in a world where people see the future as random.
- Peter Thiel
When a study was made a few years ago on runaway wives, what do you think was discovered to be the main reason wives ran away? It was lack of appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.
- Elon Musk
If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that’s not going to promote healthiness.
- Larry Page
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
- Zig Ziglar
Save your first bucket of gold… then use it for investments.
- Lee Shau Kee
I don’t think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.
- Richard Branson
The guerrilla is obsessed with benefits. Whenever offering a product or service, she focuses on how it will benefit the consumer and builds everything—the product, the delivery, the marketing—around that benefit.
- Jay Conrad Levinson
Market the change; be bold. Remember don’t be a bad ad, be a good one.
- David Novak
At the end of the day, the Irvine Co. is slowly being transformed. Our long-term goal is to transform what was once an agricultural company to a development company, and to that, the next, final step is to create a large real estate investment company.
- Donald Bren
I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
- Jack Dorsey
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
- Norman Vincent Peale
When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.
- Steve Wozniak
I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.
- Harvey Mackay
Today a grand plan coming from a schoolteacher would be dismissed as crankery, and a long-range vision coming from anyone more powerful would be derided as hubris.
- Peter Thiel
The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.
- Michael Bloomberg
If you don’t have a voice that forces you back to basics, you’re a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You’re at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I’m not a daredevil. I don’t fly without a safety net.
- Stephen Wynn
The bigger your list, the greater your options. That doesn’t mean you contact everyone on your list each time you send out a press release. You pick and choose who gets what, and block out long-term strategy as you go.
- Michael Levine
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
- Napoleon Hill
If there’s a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we’ll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we’re going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother’s house that night for dinner.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.
- Joel Olsteen
The dollar has lost 90% of its value in the last century.
- Robert Kiyosaki
There is no middle ground: either don’t throw any punches, or strike hard and end it quickly.
- Peter Thiel
After the decline in the past few years, the worst moment in the economy of Hong Kong is now behind us. The local property market is expected to show a steady upward trend as from this point.
- Lee Shau Kee
By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Practice is simply preparation for success.
- Zig Ziglar
Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
- Steven Wright
Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.
- Winston Churchill
Since we happened to be good at shoes, we thought we could be successful with casual shoes. But we got our brains beat out.
- Phil Knight
I don’t know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
- Bill Gates
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
- Steve Jobs
In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
- John C. Maxwell
When my partners and I meet with entrepreneurs, the two key characteristics that we look for are brilliance and courage. In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
- Ben Horowitz
Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt.
- Seth Godin
I told [John Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted ‘Mary had a little lamb’, etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly.
- Thomas Edison
Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.
- Mark Zuckerberg
The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
- Bill Gates
Don’t let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That’s a price that’s too high to pay.
- George Foreman
My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.
- Marc Benioff
if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.
- Dale Carnegie
I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, ‘I wish I had more money.’
- Gary Vaynerchuk
The first thing I would do for anyone who’s trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.
- Timothy Ferriss
My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.’
- Richard Branson
About the only thing ordinary salespeople agree upon is the idea that you must sell yourself first.
- Jerry Vass
We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don’t decide for you.
- Larry Ellison
India has rapidly risen to become a major force in the global economy.
- John Chambers
If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.
- Seth Godin
The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.
- Jeff Bezos
Everything happens for a reason, doesn’t it? Even if you don’t consciously agree with that statement, your brain sure does.
- Seth Godin
I love the presentation from the more flamboyant guy, who excitedly presents his plans.
- Jack Welch
The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
- Zig Ziglar
IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they’re working on, what they’re doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
- Jack Dorsey
There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
- Brian Tracy
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
- Harvey Mackay
We teach every young person the same subjects in mostly the same ways, irrespective.
- Peter Thiel
You have to be responsible when you’re running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.
- Ben Horowitz
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
- Dale Carnegie
On many long journeys have I gone. And waited, too, for others to return from journeys of their own. Some return; some are broken; some come back so different only their names remain.
- Yoda
This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock, or an “opportunity” clock?
- Zig Ziglar
For any Silicon Valley company, the most important thing is the company. And any great founders need to get out of the way of the company. We presented a spark with an idea.
- Jack Dorsey
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
- Napoleon Hill
Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It’s about building a global brand – not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
The foundation of the Germanic system was blood and kin.
- Winston Churchill
People will always blame the poets for society’s ills. But these are the true artists.
- Russell Simmons
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 reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively – I led the Series A financing for Friendster; I founded a company called Socialnet in 1997; I founded LinkedIn; and I was part of the first round of financing in Facebook – it sounds trivial, but people matter.
- Reid Hoffman
Henceforth, I will consider each day’s effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak. The first blow may cause not a tremor in the wood, nor the second, nor the third. Each blow, of itself, may be trifling, and seem of no consequence. Yet from childish swipes the oak will eventually tumble. So it will be with my efforts of today. I will be likened to the raindrop, which washes away the mountain; the ant who devours a tiger; the star which brightens the earth; the slave who builds a pyramid. I will build my castle one brick at a time for I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. I will persist until I succeed.
- Og Mandino
I’ve never been one to dwell on reverses.
- Sam Walton
I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.
- Joel Olsteen
I like the fact that I can meet anyone now and have a conversation.
- Larry Page
God always wants us to be growing.
- Joel Olsteen
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
- Zig Ziglar
Bell took the opposite approach, building multiple restaurants in a single neighborhood to eliminate the competition. It’s a strategy that’s widely used today by many companies like Starbuck’s, Barnes & Noble, and many others, and it worked for Bell.
- David Novak
