We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds
- Warren Buffett
Notable Quotables
Some of the biggest failures I’ve ever met, are people that have never failed.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Money is in some respects life’s fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
- P.T. Barnum
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
- John D. Rockefeller
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
- Dale Carnegie
You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.
- Joel Olsteen
Do you know what that word reign means? It means, time in power.” God said we’re to reign how long? In life. That means as long as you’re alive that is your time in power.
- Joel Olsteen
The paradox of teaching entrepreneurship is that such a formula necessarily cannot exist; because every innovation is new and unique, no authority can prescribe in concrete terms how to be innovative.
- Peter Thiel
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win — you’re still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin
Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
- George Soros
I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
- Jeff Bezos
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep form meddling with them while they do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
At the end of the day, effective mission statements balance the possible and the impossible. They give people a clear sense of the direction to profitability and the inspiration to feel they are part of something big and important.
- Jack Welch
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness…..
- Thomas Edison
User experience is everything. It always has been, but it’s undervalued and underinvested in. If you don’t know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.
- Evan Williams
As Americans we do not recognize the jurisdiction of the Hague Tribunal. We only follow court orders from the Chinese judiciary
- Sergey Brin
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
- Winston Churchill
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
The Group will be able to capture opportunities arising from the growth and integration of the two economies, and scale new heights in the years ahead.
- Cheng Yu-tung
True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
- Warren Buffett
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Warren Buffett
Refrain from throwing the executive under the bus.
- Ben Horowitz
Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
- Bill Gates
I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned so it evens up for me.
- Jay-Z
It’s nice to be important, but more important to be nice. You don’t know who your top customers will be five years from now or where you will be in 10 years. You may have a fancy title, but you will always need help from the people around you.
- Harvey Mackay
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence…. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
- Thomas Edison
A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.
- Joel Olsteen
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.What makes someone an artist? I don’t think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren’t artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artists who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.An artists is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artists takes it personally.That’s why Bob Dylan is an artist, but an anonymous corporate hack who dreams up Pop 40 hits on the other side of the glass is merely a marketer. That’s why Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos, is an artists, while a boiler room of telemarketers is simply a scam.Tom Peters, corporate gadfly and writer, is an artists, even though his readers are businesspeople. He’s an artists because he takes a stand, he takes the work personally, and he doesn’t care if someone disagrees. His art is part of him, and he feels compelled to share it with you because it’s important, not because he expects you to pay him for it.Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn’t matter. The intent does.Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
- Seth Godin
We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, … We have just completed a very successful management transition and I’ve never been more confident about the company’s future.
- Jack Welch
In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, ‘That was the Internet Age.’ And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.
- Reed Hastings
We are very happy to be reporting that our pro-forma earnings passed the $1 billion mark for the first time.
- John Chambers
When I feel particularly tired at the end of the day, or when irritability proves that my nerves are tired, I know beyond question that it has been an inefficient day both as to quantity and quality.
- Dale Carnegie
Anything you’re interested in the world – whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop – they’re on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
- Jack Dorsey
I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!
- Steve Wozniak
Competition is a sin.
- John D. Rockefeller
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.
- Bill Gates
Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people.
- Russell Simmons
The smartest business decision you can make is to hire qualified people. Bringing the right people on board saves you thousands, and your business will run smoothly and efficiently.
- Brian Tracy
Less than 3% of newly published authors make enough in royalties and advances to be happy to live on.
- Seth Godin
There’s no point in… just giving them money
- Lee Shau Kee
Other people’s successes are good news – for them and for you. Good for you because they show you a way to go.
- Stephen Wynn
Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.
- Tony Hsieh
Make your desires clear and reduce them to writing.
- Napoleon Hill
It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
- Winston Churchill
Money doesn’t make people happy. People make people happy.
- Stephen Wynn
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
- P.T. Barnum
Managers will play every game in the book to avoid identifying their bottom 10. Sometimes they’ll sneak in people who were planning to retire that year or others who already have been told to leave the organization.
- Jack Welch
The more you complain about your problems, the more problems you will have to complain about.
- Zig Ziglar
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
- Warren Buffett
My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that’s what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
- W. Clement Stone
I try to help people with management stuff a lot.
- Ben Horowitz
[On an American taking second place in the Olympics] He didn’t win the silver, he lost the gold
- Phil Knight
My friend didn’t understand what it means to be in the world, to be present and aware.
- Seth Godin
Some things are much easier to see in others than in yourself
- Ben Horowitz
It is unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing what it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot . .
- Zig Ziglar
It’s hard to say with 100 percent certainty that we’re totally out of it (the dry pattern), and it’s going to shift. But it’s leaning in that direction.
- Ed Clark
Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.
- Zig Ziglar
Why do I need succession planning? I’m very alert, I’m very vibrant. I have no intention to retire.
- Sheldon Adelson
Value and purpose are about understanding the specific benefits you will help people receive if they receive what you have for them.
- Zig Ziglar
Casualness causes casualties.
- Tim Redmond
Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.
- Dale Carnegie
If you really believe that you’re making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets – not to have a fair fight.
- Michael Bloomberg
We made a disastrous move into casual shoes.
- Phil Knight
People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.
- Mark Zuckerberg
I get calls from everybody asking if I know of any drivers, anybody they can hire.
- Jack Taylor
I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
- Jack Dorsey
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
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
Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.
- Dale Carnegie
The fallout from the US sub-prime issue, turbulence on global financial markets and the resulting credit tightening, slow-down in the global economies and increasing inflationary pressure all threaten to pose a drag on the economic growth in Hong Kong.
- Lee Shau Kee
It’s a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.
- Steve Martin
The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.
- Bill Gates
We must hang together or we will hang together.
- Benjamin Franklin
Of course people are getting smarter nowadays, they are letting lawyers instead of their conscience be their guides.
- Will Rogers
When I was 7, I came up with the idea of ‘charm socks.’ My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
- Sara Blakely
A person’s toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people. A boil on one’s neck interests one more than forty earthquakes in Africa.
- Dale Carnegie
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
- Warren Buffett
It doesn’t hurt to ask Actually, it does hurt. It does hurt to ask the wrong way, to ask without preparation, to ask without permission. It hurts because you never get another chance to ask right.
- Seth Godin
Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air.
- Herb Kelleher
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
- Zig Ziglar
A stubborn man can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
Yes, a Jedi’s strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice.
- Yoda
The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
- Bill Gates
Just because an employee does things differently doesn’t mean he or she won’t do the job right or as well. If you establish expectations of the goal and the standards to follow, then methodology shouldn’t be an issue.
- Harvey Mackay
Q1 was a solid quarter for Cisco, with balanced execution across most of our geographies, market segments and product categories, … We are especially pleased with the improving business momentum in the U.S. and Asia Pacific, the strength of our product families and the accelerated growth of the commercial marketplace, which has become our fastest growing customer segment.
- John Chambers
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
It’s about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it’s Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it’s going to be, ‘Storyteller.’
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Everyone has the potential, but it isn’t accomplished overnight. It requires perseverance.
- John Maxwell
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world’s fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
- Wang Jianlin
Be honest, always.
- Jack Dorsey
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
- Donald Trump
We’ve got to give people room to have a bad day.
- Joel Olsteen
Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you’ve got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don’t start, you never get a chance.
- Seth Godin
The book ‘Do You!’ is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you – then the freedom comes. And we’re only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn’t make happy.
- Russell Simmons
The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Work hard and persevere.
- Lee Shau Kee
Hold on to that new, enlarge vision of victory that God has given you. Start expecting things to change in your favor. Dare to boldly declare that you are standing strong against the forces of darkness.
- Joel Olsteen
