Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.
- Winston Churchill
Notable Quotables
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
- Aristotle
In order to sell a product or a service, a company must establish a relationship with the consumer. It must build trust and rapport. It must understand the customer’s needs, and it must provide a product that delivers the promised benefits.
- Jay Conrad Levinson
If you end your training now — if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did — you will become an agent of evil.
- Yoda
What kind of business world are we living in?
- Jack Ma
The potential financial reward for building the ‘next Windows’ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.
- Bill Gates
I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And they were incredibly moving.
- Steve Martin
I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.
- Joel Olsteen
I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
- Michael Bloomberg
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.
- Bill Gates
I’ve found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that’s where many people cultivate inspiration.
- Herb Kelleher
NO PURCHASE SHOULD EVER BE MADE IN A BUSINESS UNLESS IT IS JUSTIFIED BY AN INCREASE IN SALES.
- Robert Kiyosaki
London, a city where creativity and innovation have always flourished, provides a significant home for Starbucks and a significant gateway into Europe.
- Howard Schultz
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
You may be sitting around waiting for God to change your circumstances. Then you’re going to be happy, then your’re going to have a good attitude, then you’re going to give God praise. But God is waiting on you to get up on the inside. When you do your part, He’ll begin to change things and work supernaturally in your life.
- Joel Olsteen
I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.
- Michael Bloomberg
I’m Phil Knight, and I don’t believe in advertising.
- Phil Knight
Passion can overcome fear – the fear of losing, of failing, of being traditional.
- Seth Godin
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
- Ben Horowitz
To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.
- Joel Olsteen
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
- Thomas Edison
The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
- Bill Gates
Foreign politicians don’t have resources – or limited resources. It’s useless dealing with them.
- Wang Jianlin
I probably have about four or five cups of coffee a day. I make myself an espresso macchiato when I wake, which is a shot of espresso and just a dollop of steamed milk. Then, if I’m going to do some work at home, I would make myself a French press. It’s the best way to make conventional coffee.
- Howard Schultz
Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.
- Michael Bloomberg
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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- Ray Dalio
During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.
- Winston Churchill
You can expect what you accept.
- Anonymous
I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.
- Ray Kroc
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.
- Jeff Bezos
I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.
- Bill Gates
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
- Peter Drucker
If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.
- Larry Page
War metaphors invade our everyday business language: we use headhunters to build up a sales force that will enable us to take a captive market and make a killing. But really it’s competition, not business, that is like war:
- Peter Thiel
In the early days, I really felt the pain of not being able to find information easily. I guess that helped me to develop an urge to write things like a search engine.
- Robin Li
Find a job that you will be happy with and work hard at.
- Lee Shau Kee
If you wait until all the lights are green before you leave home, you’ll never get started on your trip to the top.
- Zig Ziglar
Spreading old ways to create wealth around the world will result in devastation, not riches. In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable
- Peter Thiel
I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I’m not a vegan for health reasons – although obviously I’m 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that’s true. But I’m a vegan for compassionate reasons
- Russell Simmons
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.
- Jerry Seinfeld
I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.
- Winston Churchill
This first time through has been hectic, but I expect it to be more stream-lined next year.
- Jack Taylor
Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce.
- Zig Ziglar
The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work.
- Peter Drucker
In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
- Reed Hastings
A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.
- Dale Carnegie
Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they’d bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.
- Ed Clark
It’s important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
- Sara Blakely
Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.”
- Sam Walton
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
- Thomas J Watson
Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.
- Rupert Murdoch
Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you have one million dollars, you’re a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you’ve got trouble, a lot of headaches. When you have more than one billion dollars, or a hundred million dollars, that’s a responsibility you have – it’s the trust of people on you, because people believe you can spend money better than the others.
- Jack Ma
A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
- John C. Maxwell
You don’t build a business –you build people– and then people build the business.
- Zig Ziglar
Humor can often be effective and with this style, it’s emphasized. Appeal to the journalist’s heightened sense of the unusual. Stunts, sideshows, ancillary themes are put to work here.
- Michael Levine
Strip malls are history.
- Jeff Bezos
Obviously I knew it was a great opportunity but I wasn’t expecting something as big as right now, what we see in Macau.
- Lui Che Woo
Enforce functional training by withholding new employee requisitions. As Andy Grove writes, there are only two ways for a manager to improve the output of an employee: motivation and training. Therefore, training should be the most basic requirement for all managers in your organization. An effective way to enforce this requirement is by withholding new employee requisitions from managers until they’ve developed a training program for the TBH, “To Be Hired.”
- Ben Horowitz
When you make a promise, keep it.
- Zig Ziglar
Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.
- Tony Hsieh
I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.
- Azim Premji
Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.
- Zig Ziglar
Success is never accidental.
- Peter Thiel
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
- Andrew Carnegie
If you focus on diversification instead of single-minded pursuit of the very few companies that can become overwhelmingly valuable, you’ll miss those rare companies in the first place.
- Peter Thiel
IN A NUTSHELL FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN HANDLING PEOPLE PRINCIPLE 1 Don’t criticize, condemn or complain. PRINCIPLE 2 Give honest and sincere appreciation. PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want.
- Dale Carnegie
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
No matter how many times people say it – ‘Oh, I’m just writing this for myself’ ‘Oh, I’m just doing this for myself’ – nobody’s doing it for themselves! You’re doing it for an audience. So whether I’m performing or writing a book or playing music, it’s definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.
- Steve Martin
No, I’m not settling here. I’m going to keep pressing forward.
- Joel Olsteen
Everything in life is luck.
- Donald Trump
I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.
- Steve Martin
But this “spray and pray” approach usually produces an entire portfolio of flops, with no hits at all. This is because venture returns don’t follow a normal distribution overall. Rather, they follow a power law: a small handful of companies radically outperform all others. If you focus on diversification instead of single-minded pursuit of the very few companies that can become overwhelmingly valuable, you’ll miss those rare companies in the first place.
- Peter Thiel
I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.
- Mukesh Ambani
Don’t panic.
- David Novak
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
- John Wooden
What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.
- Thomas Edison
I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We’re prepared to pay billions.
- Sheldon Adelson
Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.
- Winston Churchill
Pick a movement. Pick a revolution. And join it.
- Jack Dorsey
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose…
- Thomas Edison
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn’t have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
- Jack Welch
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
- Peter Drucker
A valuable business must start by finding a niche and dominating a small market.
- Peter Thiel
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
- John Wooden
I do not suppose that at any moment of history has the agony of the world been so great or widespread. Tonight the sun goes down on more suffering than ever before in the world.
- Winston Churchill
We will be one of the most productive residential developers in China in the next few years.
- Lee Shau Kee
Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job
- Ted Turner
Winning ‘Motor Trend’ Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.
- Elon Musk
The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.
- Michael Gerber
The engineer’s grail is a product great enough that “it sells itself.
- Peter Thiel
Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it’s easier, it scales and it’s profitable. But people don’t like it – we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.
- Seth Godin
There are few words which are used more loosely than the word “Civilization.” What does it mean? It means a society based upon the opinion of civilians. It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained. That is Civilization—and in its soil grow continually freedom, comfort, and culture. When Civilization reigns, in any country, a wider and less harassed life is afforded to the masses of the people. The traditions of the past are cherished, and the inheritance bequeathed to us by former wise or valiant men becomes a rich estate to be enjoyed and used by all.
- Winston Churchill
My favorite writers are all Jews – David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark – well, you get the picture.
- Zig Ziglar
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
- Bill Gates
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
- Henry Ford
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
