There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.
- Winston Churchill
Notable Quotables
About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
- Bill Gates
When the economy does pick up, … so will … spending.
- John Chambers
If plan A” fails — remember you have 25 letters left.
- Chris Guillebeau
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Present my story and the difficulties that I have faced. As an entrepreneur, a CEO.
- Ben Horowitz
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
- Timothy Ferriss
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
- Walt Disney
Good relations with the Wookiees, I have.
- Yoda
What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‘Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.’
- Bill Gates
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.
- Thomas Edison
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
- Walter Lippmann
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been
- Sam Walton
Everything in life is luck.
- Donald Trump
Even god doesn’t propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?
- Dale Carnegie
If you don’t have ambition, you should not be alive.
- Aliko Dangote
Maybe you once were excited about that person God supernaturally brought into your life as a marriage partner, but now all the excitement has worn off. Don’t’ allow that sense of a miracle to slip away. Don’t get so familiar with each other that you take one another for granted.
- Joel Olsteen
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.
- Winston Churchill
Profit in business comes from repeat customers; customers that boast about your product and service, and that bring friends with them.
- W. Clement Stone
(Wright is) a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he’s a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, … He’s a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company’s future growth.
- Jack Welch
I always try to acknowledge what someone’s done well before talking about what could be done better. – David Novak CEO OF Yum! Brands
- David Novak
In fact, when I look at it today, I realize that so much of what we did in the beginning was really poorly done. But we managed to sell our merchandise as low as we possibly could, and that kept us right-side-up for the first 10 years – that and consistently improving sales in these smaller markets by buildling up our relationship with the customers. The ideas was simple: when customers thought of Wal-Mart, they should think of low prices and satisfaction guaranteed.
- Sam Walton
I was not strong enough to defeat him. Like his master before him, be destroyed, he must.
- Yoda
We are making these changes at a time when we are beginning to see signs that our business is stabilizing.
- John Chambers
We learn by doing.
- Aristotle
Definite planning even went beyond the surface of this planet: NASA’s Apollo Program began in 1961 and put 12 men on the moon before it finished in 1972.
- Peter Thiel
There’s a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There’s a lot of sex, you know, in art. There’s a lot of naked women and men, and there’s intrigue, there’s fakery. It’s a real microcosm of the larger world.
- Steve Martin
[Luke:] I can’t believe it. [Yoda:] That is why you fail.
- Yoda
I’m constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don’t train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.
- Zig Ziglar
I think it’s too early to tell.
- John Chambers
It’s only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.
- Harvey Mackay
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
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you’ve got somebody who’s raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give ’em that shot.
- Jack Welch
Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air.
- Herb Kelleher
If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.
- Bill Gates
As you and I march across the decades of time, we are going to meet a lot of unpleasant situations that are so. They cannot be otherwise. We have our choice. We can either accept them as inevitable and adjust ourselves to them, or we can ruin our lives with rebellion and maybe end up with a nervous breakdown.
- Dale Carnegie
The only antidote is simplicity. The simplicity of leading through truth and trust. Ceaselessly seeking the former, relentlessly building the latter. In every decision, in every action. Truth is a determined pursuit, a personal and unquenchable fire, burning to know what is really happening inside the company and out.
- Jack Welch
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 good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate’s knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth.
- Ben Horowitz
The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.
- Bill Gates
The flexibility of Hong Kong businessmen should soon twist a way to success again.
- Cheng Yu-tung
You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That’s the value, not the brand ‘Twitter.’ Twitter just provides the venue for it.
- Jack Dorsey
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
There is never a bad time to start a business – unless you want to start a mediocre one.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.
- Steve Jobs
Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!
- Joel Olsteen
Every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside.
- Peter Thiel
There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one.
- Winston Churchill
PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan.
- Yoda
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- Albert Einstein
Most poor people live in the poorest countries.
- Bill Gates
Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.
- Zig Ziglar
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
- Seth Godin
Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That’s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
- Elon Musk
No effort has been spared in ensuring the best designs for all our projects.
- Lee Shau Kee
In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
- Bill Gates
A road that leads to nowhere is hard to build.
- David Novak
The millionaires and billionaires who chose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young. This secret needs to be spread widely.
- Gina Rinehart
Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.
- Winston Churchill
Don’t just park money in the bank.
- Lee Shau Kee
With a decrease in the number of pirates, there has been an increase in global warming over the same period. Therefore, global warming is caused by a lack of pirates. Even more compelling: Somalia has the highest number of Pirates AND the lowest Carbon emissions of any country. Coincidence?
- Timothy Ferriss
My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.
- Bill Gates
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
- Jack Welch
If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value
- Warren Buffett
I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last… Whether it’s tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
- Tadashi Yanai
If the executive lets the flow of events determine what he does, what he works on, and what he takes seriously, he will fritter himself away “operating.” He may be an excellent man. But he is certain to waste his knowledge and ability and to throw away what little effectiveness he might have achieved. What the executive needs are criteria which enable him to work on the truly important, that is, on contributions and results, even though the criteria are not found in the flow of events.
- Peter Drucker
Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.
- Napoleon Hill
Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
- Russell Simmons
I don’t want to hear the specials. If they’re so special, put ’em on the menu.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
- Steve Ballmer
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
- Seth Godin
The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.
- Bill Gates
With an export-driven economy, Hong Kong is unavoidably affected by any hiccup in the outside world.
- Cheng Yu-tung
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
We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas Edison
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
- Peter Drucker
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
- Seth Godin
Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
- Seth Godin
Use money to make money.
- Lee Shau Kee
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job. The customer only knows what she thinks she wants based on her experience with the current product. The innovator can take into account everything that’s possible, but often must go against what she knows to be true. As a result, innovation requires a combination of knowledge, skill, and courage.
- Ben Horowitz
Success is not what you have, but who you are.
- Bo Bennett
Your thoughts about your circumstances have you down. On the other hand, you can be in one of the biggest battles of your life, and still be filled with joy and peace and victory – if you simply learn how to choose the right thought. It’s time to think about what you’re thinking about.
- Joel Olsteen
We’re absolutely going to have a better facility.
- Ed Clark
I’ve always been fascinated by cities and how they work. And I taught myself how to program so I can understand how the city works.
- Jack Dorsey
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
- Howard Schultz
Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.
- Dale Carnegie
The construction arm of the Group always firmly adheres to the principle of ‘People is our priority’ and deploys a vast amount of resources to quality facilities and training of staff to ensure a safe and good working environment.
- Lee Shau Kee
I think if you’re an entrepreneur, you’ve got to dream big and then dream bigger.
- Howard Schultz
m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.
- Elon Musk
I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don’t believe in climate change – they think oil will last forever.
- Elon Musk
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.
- Jeff Bezos
‘I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’.
- Bill Gates
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- Dale Carnegie
No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
- Napoleon Hill
The most important lesson in entrepreneurship: Embrace the struggle.
- Ben Horowitz
The way to stay ahead was through product innovation. We happened to be great at it.
- Phil Knight
We’re really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.
- Joel Olsteen
We gave new customers $10 for joining, and we gave them $10 more every time they referred a friend.
- Peter Thiel
I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.
- Elon Musk
