Google’s motto—“Don’t be evil”—is in part a branding ploy, but it’s also characteristic of a kind of business that’s successful enough to take ethics seriously without jeopardizing its own existence.
- Peter Thiel
Notable Quotables
It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
- Warren Buffett
Flavor is, counterintuitively, less than 10% taste and more than 90% smell.
- Timothy Ferriss
While technology is still important, the consumer has to lead innovation.
- Phil Knight
To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.
- Jerry Seinfeld
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‘Good pride’ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‘Bad pride’ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
- John C. Maxwell
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
The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.
- Joel Olsteen
If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.
- Zig Ziglar
One incident preserved by General Ismay in an apocryphal and somewhat lively form may be allowed to lighten the narrative. His orderly, a Royal Marine, was shown the sights of Moscow by one of the Intourist guides. “This,” said the Russian, “is the Eden Hotel, formerly Ribbentrop Hotel. Here is Churchill Street, formerly Hitler Street. Here is the Beaverbrook railway station, formerly Goering railway station. Will you have a cigarette, comrade?” The Marine replied, “Thank you, comrade, formerly bastard!” This tale, though jocular, illustrates none the less the strange atmosphere of these meetings.
- Winston Churchill
I have the best job I could possibly have.
- Michael Bloomberg
John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there’s something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.
- Ben Horowitz
When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.
- Rupert Murdoch
Law of Credibility – Don’t say anything you can’t prove. Be able to prove anything you say.
- Jerry Vass
At the end of the day, I guess my feeling is that it was sort of a failure to communicate.
- Phil Knight
In our day Capital, Business Ability, and Manual Labor are the legs of a three-legged stool. While the three legs stand sound and firm, the stool stands; but let any one of the three weaken and break, let it be pulled out or struck out, down goes the stool to the ground. And the stool is of no use until the third leg is restored.
- Andrew Carnegie
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Winston Churchill
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
Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
- Winston Churchill
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people and their communities.
- Jack Welch
I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, ‘Aw, you’re spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,’ I’d like to understand what the person used to do with that time.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Despite the recent volatility of the stock market, economic and political confidence still prevails in Hong Kong.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Make good decisions based on facts.
- David Novak
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.
- Joel Olsteen
I love great music and art, but I think ‘cubist’ songs and paintings are hideous.
- Thomas Edison
In business, if you don’t kick and hug, you don’t love.
- Clay Clark
I swore I would never get involved in another startup ever again in my entire life.
- Larry Ellison
Southwest consistently turns a profit because they have an employee ownership program that gives their employees a sense of ownership that is very real. When the company does well financially, the employees do well financially. When the company struggles, the employees struggle.
- Clay Clark
Leadership qualities of Effective Leaders:
- Jack Welch
I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.
- Zig Ziglar
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
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked
- Warren Buffett
Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.
- Peter Thiel
The new information technology… Internet and e-mail… have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
- Peter Drucker
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
- Napoleon Hill
Fulfilling the vision of the Irvine Ranch master plan has been a lifetime dedication and lifetime passion, and I am hopeful the heritage of our Irvine stewardship will live on in many new ways.
- Donald Bren
I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
- Jack Welch
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
- John D. Rockefeller
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.
- Zig Ziglar
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
- Andrew Carnegie
I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.
- Jeff Bezos
Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.
- Michael Dell
The thing about the banjo is, when you first hear it, it strikes many people as ‘What’s that?’ There’s something very compelling about it to certain people; that’s the way I was; that’s the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are.
- Steve Martin
Any time is a good time to start a company.
- Ron Conway
Casino gambling is colorful and dramatic and theatrical.
- Stephen Wynn
If you think something hard is impossible, you’ll never even start trying to achieve it. Belief in secrets is an effective truth.
- Peter Thiel
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
- Steve Jobs
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
- Og Mandino
Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.
- Jerry Seinfeld
I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.
- Joel Olsteen
I find that a duck’s opinion of me is very much influenced over whether or not I have bread
- Mitch Hedberg
Nine times out of ten, an argument ends with each of the contestants more firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right.
- Dale Carnegie
The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
- Seth Godin
The 1990s have a good image. We tend to remember them as a prosperous, optimistic decade that happened to end with the internet boom and bust. But many of those years were not as cheerful as our nostalgia holds. We’ve long since forgotten the global context for the 18 months of dot-com mania at decade’s end.
- Peter Thiel
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It’s the image, not what you sing.
- Rod Stewart
The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.
- Bill Gates
A definite view, by contrast, favors firm convictions. Instead of pursuing many-sided mediocrity and calling it “well-roundedness,” a definite person determines the one best thing to do and then does it. Instead of working tirelessly to make herself indistinguishable, she strives to be great at something substantive—to be a monopoly of one. This is not what young people do today, because everyone around them has long since lost faith in a definite world. No one gets into Stanford by excelling at just one thing, unless that thing happens to involve throwing or catching a leather ball.
- Peter Thiel
One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
- Richard Branson
This includes daily newspapers, local TV shows and talk shows; local all-news or talk-radio programs, weekly entertainment guides; local bureaus of the wire services;public access and other local cable TV stations, city magazines, business newsletters and ethnic publications.
- Michael Levine
Role play with yourself to answer questions to a cynic, optimist, and be able play devil’s advocate.
- Maurice Kanbar
Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
- Russell Simmons
Once Microsoft lost its grip on developers, it became only a matter of time before it lost its monopoly on operating systems.
- Ben Horowitz
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
- Harvey Mackay
Every single important thing we do is something we didn’t use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
- Seth Godin
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
- Russell Simmons
For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.
- Joel Olsteen
[Luke:] I can’t believe it. [Yoda:] That is why you fail.
- Yoda
Business, that’s easily defined – it’s other people’s money.
- Peter Drucker
Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
- Zig Ziglar
The foundation of the Germanic system was blood and kin.
- Winston Churchill
This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
- John D. Rockefeller
President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.
- Harold Hamm
Like acting, sales works best when hidden. This explains why almost everyone whose job involves distribution—whether they’re in sales, marketing, or advertising—has a job title that has nothing to do with those things. People who sell advertising are called “account executives.” People who sell customers work in “business development.” People who sell companies are “investment bankers.” And people who sell themselves are called “politicians.
- Peter Thiel
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
- Steve Jobs
You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.
- Harvey Mackay
I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.
- Steve Wozniak
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
- Jeff Bezos
Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.
- James C. Collins
Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don’t want.
- Timothy Ferriss
No slovenly, careless person can become a successful leader. Leadership calls for respect. Followers will not respect a leader who does not grade high on all of the factors of a Pleasing Personality.
- Napoleon Hill
Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.
- Mark Zuckerberg
I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process
- Oprah Winfrey
I think very early on in life we all learn what we’re good at and what we’re not good at, and we stay where it’s safe.
- Sara Blakely
Success is not final…Failure is not fatal…it’s the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
Wrong Selection Of A Vocation
- Napoleon Hill
Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run ‘USA Today’ without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don’t want products, they want solutions.
- Michael Dell
The lower and individual’s ability to lead, the lower the lid on his potential.
- John Maxwell
But Governments and peoples do not always take rational decisions. Sometimes they take mad decisions, or one set of people get control who compel all others to obey and aid them in folly.
- Winston Churchill
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
- Napoleon Hill
One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded.
- Ben Horowitz
I’d say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that’s a conventional and perhaps mundane answer, but my family was blown apart at the start of World War II.
- Herb Kelleher
From the economic slowdown after the financial crisis in 1997 through the economic boom in 2007, the motherland has been supporting Hong Kong in recovering from adversity; on the other hand, Hong Kong has been actively cooperating with the motherland in going international.
- Cheng Yu-tung
I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.
- Howard Schultz
Founding Fathers of U.S. set up processes, checks and balances designed to insure that their values lived on long after their passing.
- Jim Collins
The Internet will help achieve friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
- Bill Gates
Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.
- Peter Drucker
I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
- Wang Jianlin
Bury your mistakes.
- Rupert Murdoch
