Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
- Ben Horowitz
Notable Quotables
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.
- Warren Buffett
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that’s really powerful.
- Reid Hoffman
God accepts you. God approves you. And He has something better in store.
- Joel Olsteen
Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.
- James C. Collins
The desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature.
- John Dewey
The biggest cowards are managers who don’t let people know where they stand.
- Jack Welch
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
- Ray Kroc
You will never change what you tolerate.
- Joel Olsteen
We’re running the company to serve more people.
- Mark Zuckerberg
TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE, THE PRODUCTS, AND THE PROFITS—IN THAT ORDER.
- Ben Horowitz
I’m afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
- Tadashi Yanai
When your head of sales interviews for her next job, she won’t want to say that despite the fact that she ran a global sales force with hundreds of employees, her title was “Dude.”
- Ben Horowitz
I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they’re doing. People don’t look at me. They don’t even know I’m there.
- Jerry Seinfeld
If you do not see yourself as a winner, you cannot perform as a winner.
- Zig Ziglar
One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..
- Joel Olsteen
The abundance mindset makes it easier to be graceful.
- Seth Godin
Let’s think beyond the normal stuff and have an environment where that sort of thinking is encouraged and rewarded and where it’s okay to fail as well. Because when you try new things, you try this idea, that idea… well a large number of them are not gonna work, and that has to be okay. If every time somebody comes up with an idea it has to be successful, you’re not gonna get people coming up with ideas.”
- Elon Musk
Life’s too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can’t please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.
- Joel Olsteen
Comedy may be big business but it isn’t pretty.
- Steve Martin
Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map—these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.
- Seth Godin
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
- Peter Drucker
We are the masters of our fate.
- Winston Churchill
The road to comfort is crowded and it rarely gets you there. Ironically, it’s those who seek out discomfort that are able to make a difference and find their footing.
- Seth Godin
It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
- Zig Ziglar
I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.
- Ray Kroc
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
- Elon Musk
Networking is one of the most powerful tools you can use to grow your company and reputation.
- Business Insider.com
See win-win deals.
- Jack Nadel
The world is facing a new networked, digital lifestyle, and we will ensure that Canon remains ahead of the game.
- Fujio Mitarai
At the point when adding people into the company feels like more work than the work that you can offload to the new employees, the defensive lineman has run around you and you probably need to start giving ground grudgingly.
- Ben Horowitz
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.
- Bill Gates
Worry is the most significant factor that relates to the root of negative thinking.
- Zig Ziglar
There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.
- Harvey Mackay
In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.
- Reed Hastings
A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
- Howard Schultz
We don’t have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it’s important to be with our family and friends.
- Sara Blakely
Newspaper readership is still growing in India.
- Bill Gates
People ask me all the time, ‘How can I become a successful entrepreneur?’ And I have to be honest: It’s one of my least favorite questions, because if you’re waiting for someone else’s advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you’re not one.
- Michael Dell
I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.
- Dale Carnegie
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
- Winston Churchill
In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.
- Peter Thiel
Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
- Elon Musk
Be a coach, not a cheerleader
- Stacy Thorn
An organization’s capabilities reside in two places. The first is in its processes—the methods by which people have learned to transform inputs of labor, energy, materials, information, cash, and technology into outputs of higher value. The second is in the organization’s values, which are the criteria that managers and employees in the organization use when making prioritization decisions. People are quite flexible, in that they can be trained to succeed at quite different things. An employee of IBM, for example, can quite readily change the way he or she works, in order to work successfully in a small start-up company. But processes and values are not flexible. A process that is effective at managing the design of a minicomputer, for example, would be ineffective at managing the design of a desktop personal computer. Similarly, values that cause employees to prioritize projects to develop high-margin products, cannot simultaneously accord priority to low-margin products. The very processes and values that constitute an organization’s capabilities in one context, define its disabilities in another context.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Why should I clutter up my mind with general knowledge, for the purpose of being able to answer questions, when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I acquire.
- Henry Ford
Nobody ever accused me of wisdom of any kind, let alone conventional.
- Phil Knight
Whoever is first to dominate the most important segment of a market with viral potential will be the last mover in the whole market.
- Peter Thiel
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
- Reid Hoffman
Never forget that people are your greatest asset.
- John Maxwell
When you reach out to hurting people, that’s when God is going to make sure your needs are supplied. When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.”
- Joel Olsteen
My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
- Winston Churchill
Despite the recent volatility of the stock market, economic and political confidence still prevails in Hong Kong.
- Cheng Yu-tung
We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don’t decide for you.
- Larry Ellison
What’s important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn’t satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn’t right, or if the offerings aren’t right, it’s the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don’t get hung up on zeros.
- Jack Welch
Six out of 10 Americans believe the American dream is dead according to a recent poll.
- CBSNews.com
And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.
- Michael Bloomberg
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people,” said Schwab, the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors.
- Dale Carnegie
The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.
- P.T. Barnum
It’s not what happens to you that matters, it’s how you respond to what happens to you that makes a difference.
- Zig Ziglar
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice – fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.
- Sergey Brin
If you want to understand what drives Cisco, look at our approach to customers. The manner in which we serve our customers defines our company values and demonstrates our priorities. Cisco is proud to be honored with this important certification that recognizes the foundation of our culture — the importance that we place on ensuring our customers are successful with Cisco technology.
- John Chambers
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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
Winners expect to win, they expect victory, and they expect success!
- Zig Ziglar
All was there—the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.
- Winston Churchill
I have this old ’57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I’ll just sit there and listen to the sound of the latch going, ‘cluh-CLICK-click.’ That door! I live for that door. Whatever the opposite of planned obsolescence is, that’s what I’m into.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Look creatively at your resume, work experience, physical habits, and hobbies and compile a list of all the groups, past and present, that you can associate yourself with.
- Timothy Ferriss
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I said one time that it shouldn’t matter who counts to 30 for filling up retail prescriptions, and I caught a lot of grief for that, and probably rightfully so. But that wasn’t the point. The point is that putting pills in a bottle doesn’t change health outcomes. It doesn’t matter whether you get your pills at Walgreen or CVS or Kroger. The reality is: What happens with that process? Who is taking care of that patient? It’s not counting pills and sticking them in bottles. That doesn’t add any value.
- George Paz
Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
- Reed Hastings
There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison
I don’t think it’s a big deal to show opera glasses to someone searching for binoculars that you somehow infer is a woman. But you don’t want to pop up ads for H.I.V. drugs on someone’s page, because you inferred they have H.I.V., when their boss is standing there looking at their computer
- Sergey Brin
We’d like to believe that efficient, useful, cost-effective products and services are the way to succeed. That hard work is its own reward. Most marketers carry around a worldview that describes themselves as innovators, not storytellers.
- Seth Godin
Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.
- T. Harv Eker
If you can’t be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.
- Seth Godin
You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
- Joel Olsteen
Networking is one of the most valuable uses of your time in terms of return—and not just in monetary terms.
- Business Insider.com
Life is not a portfolio: not for a startup founder, and not for any individual. An entrepreneur cannot “diversify” herself: you cannot run dozens of companies at the same time and then hope that one of them works out well. Less obvious but just as important, an individual cannot diversify his own life by keeping dozens of equally possible careers in ready reserve.
- Peter Thiel
If we can get you a car in five minutes, we can get you anything in five minutes.
- Travis Kalanick
I am a normal guy.
- Vagit Alekperov
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
- Winston Churchill
Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
- Bill Gates
Where is the love that will overlook a person’s faults?
- Joel Olsteen
When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.
- Bill Gates
I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book ‘Crush It!’? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I’ve built.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
If you say too much or mix in multiple pitches, you diffuse your goal. You must give the media a pitch they can hit.
- Michael Levine
The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
- Ma Huateng
Success is about being where we are supposed to be and doing what we need to be doing.
- David Robinson
If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
- John C. Maxwell
Strive to make every person feel special. After all, every person you meet is made in the image of God.
- Joel Olsteen
Thinking (of how to improve your life and business) is the hardest thing there is. That is why so few people engage in it.
- Henry Ford
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
- Wayne Gretzky
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
- Roger Staubach
Even working remotely should be avoided, because misalignment can creep in whenever colleagues aren’t together full-time, in the same place, every day.
- Peter Thiel
And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
- John D. Rockefeller
The time will never be just right, you must act now.
- Napoleon Hill
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
- Niels Bohr
