Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- Winston Churchill
Notable Quotables
I get more spam than anyone I know.
- Bill Gates
What I know is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
- Oprah Winfrey
99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.
- Zig Ziglar
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that’s really powerful.
- Reid Hoffman
To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.
- Zig Ziglar
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.
- Harvey Mackay
Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.
- Tadashi Yanai
The time to look for a new job is when you don’t need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.
- Seth Godin
Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.
- Joel Olsteen
In 1973 when the Hong Kong stock market witnessed an unprecedented slump with the Hang Seng Index plunging by over 90% in a year, the Group built the New World Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong through the acquisition of Holt’s Wharf. In doing so we broke the dominance of the UK-based conglomerates and, as if [being given] a shot in the arm, initiated the course of weaving the companies with Chinese capital into the economic fabric of Hong Kong.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.
- Harvey Mackay
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
- Sam Walton
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill
This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us the latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.
- Mark Zuckerberg
The thing for you is a burial permit. You have only to speak and I will see that you get it.
- Dale Carnegie
We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.
- John C. Maxwell
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
- Bill Gates
It’s too easy, as a team grows, to put up with a few B players, and they then attract a few more B players, and soon you will even have some C players. A players like to work only with other A players, which means you can’t indulge B players.
- Steve Jobs
My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.
- Joel Olsteen
Teaching Fire a LessonFire is hot. That’s what it does. If you get burned by fire, you can be annoyed at yourself, but being angry at fire doesn’t do you much good. And trying to teach the fire a lesson so it won’t be hot next time is certainly not time well spent.Our inclination is to give fire a pass, because it’s not human. But human beings are similar, in that they’re not going to change any time soon either.
- Seth Godin
Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we’ve had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you’re really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.
- Steve Ballmer
You can’t jump to vegan if you’re not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual.
- Russell Simmons
It’s clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.
- Seth Godin
It’s not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobiles one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
- George Washington Carver
Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.
- John C. Maxwell
The ballplayer who loses his head can’t keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
- Lou Gehrig
The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
- Elon Musk
Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
- John D. Rockefeller
I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
- Seth Godin
When I hung in, he saw character, and that was the end of it. Later, it was funny to watch him hazing other guys the same way – funny after you’d been through the cycle.
- Phil Knight
It is not your aptitude but your ATTITUDE that decides your altitude in life.
- Zig Ziglar
Everything man creates or acquires begins in the form of desire, that desire is taken on the first lap of its journey, from the abstract to the concrete, into the workshop of the imagination, where plans for its transition are created and organized.
- Napoleon Hill
A record isn’t like a movie – you can get it together pretty fast.
- Steve Martin
Discipline is hard–harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can’t even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.
- Atul Gawande
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
- Bill Gates
The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don’t things are just going to head in a direction that’s going to be almost impossible to recover from.
- Donald Trump
If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you.
- Zig Ziglar
The steel business is a local business. We do believe in the U.S. economy and would like to have a strong, balanced presence here.
- Alexei Mordashov
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
- Zig Ziglar
To do the most good requires saying no to pressures to stray, and the discipline to stop doing what does not fit.
- Peter Drucker
The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
- Rupert Murdoch
By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives.
- Zig Ziglar
In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors.
- Raymond Kwok
Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that… you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.
- Elon Musk
Over the past 30 years, the nation has gradually opened up under such reform policies, which have presented enormous challenges and unlimited opportunities for the people and benefited the development of the nation all these years.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
- James C. Collins
Who am I winning for? Am I winning for Oracle shareholders or is it simply a matter of personal vanity? I’ll admit to it. Mea culpa. An awful lot of it is personal vanity.
- Larry Ellison
Leadership is hard to train on.
- Ben Horowitz
The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
- Zig Ziglar
If a man will devote his time to securing facts in an impartial, objective way, his worries will usually evaporate in the light of knowledge.
- Dale Carnegie
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
- Dale Carnegie
We also now believe that this slowdown in capital spending could extend beyond two quarters.
- John Chambers
The question you should be asking isn’t, What do I want? or What are my goals? but What would excite me?
- Timothy Ferriss
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
- Oprah Winfrey
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
As CEO, you should have an opinion on absolutely everything. You should have an opinion on every forecast, every product plan, every presentation, and even every comment. Let people know what you think. If you like someone’s comment, give her the feedback. If you disagree, give her the feedback. Say what you think. Express yourself.
- Ben Horowitz
When the negative thoughts come – and they will, they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.
- Joel Olsteen
The most stable companies have strong leaders at every level of the organization. The only way to develop such widespread leadership is to make developing leaders a part of your culture. That is a strong part of Coca-Cola’s legacy.
- John Maxwell
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
- Henry Ford
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- Steve Jobs
I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.
- Warren Buffett
People ask me what’s the most important function when you’re starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values that are going to endure. The discipline I believe so strongly in is H.R., and its the last discipline that gets funded.
- Howard Schultz
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
I am amazed that CNN can’t get its act together.
- Rupert Murdoch
How you look, talk, and market your business is what should be keeping everyone busy.
- Bryan Smith
I’ve seen executives improve their performance and skill sets, I’ve never seen one lose the support of the organization and then regain it.
- Ben Horowitz
Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.
- Harvey Mackay
If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
- Zig Ziglar
For me, learning to my control my temper has been a lifelong process. So has the process of being will to take risks, make mistakes and be grateful for the other person, even if I may no longer speak to or do business with that person. When I reflect back on my life, I would say that it is this mental attitude that has made me the most money, has brought me the most success, and has ultimately allowed me to have the most magic in my life.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice Doggie until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
You don’t ever want to sell, you want customers to sell.
- Clay Clark
Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Just learn from the guys who have already done it well. You need a mentor, a seasoned coach who is willing to share his wisdom and experience with you. Ask someone who has already been successful to guide you.
- George Foreman
My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
- Colin Powell
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
- Peter Drucker
I think part of the reason we’re successful so far is that originally we didn’t really want to start a business.
- Larry Page
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
Pick a movement. Pick something you believe in. Pick something you want to have an impact in and then question every single thing and be a founder, and be an entrepreneur inside those organizations and inside that movement.
- Jack Dorsey
At an end your rule is, and not short enought it was!
- Yoda
Ebooks had to happen.
- Jeff Bezos
Put time limits on each item. Set an agenda for your meeting and your trips to Disney World.
- David Robinson
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
- Jack Welch
Let’s make it easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
- Jack Dorsey
most cold calls didn’t get to the intended person for one reason: gatekeepers. If I simply made all my calls from 8:00–8:30 A.M. and 6:00–6:30 P.M., for a total of one hour, I was able to avoid secretaries and book more than twice as many meetings.
- Timothy Ferriss
Hay que evitar siempre el ángulo agudo.
- Dale Carnegie
SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.
- Elon Musk
Clear your mind must be, if you are to find the villains behind this plot.
- Yoda
Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it’s a good thing they’ll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
- Bill Gates
You can’t sit there and worry about everything.
- Michael Bloomberg
Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.
- Henry Ford
Many salespeople feel that selling is warfare: the buyer is the enemy and words are ammunition…The seller’s advances are turned aside because they are so predictable, amateurish and easily deflected.
- Jerry Vass
I think it’s funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.
- Howard Schultz
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
- John D. Rockefeller
I’m considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family – father, mother, children – is fundamental to our civilisation.
- Rupert Murdoch
Sure, ideas that spread, win, but ideas that don’t get spoken always fail.
- Seth Godin
