I will not talk to God about how big my problems are. I will talk to my problems about how big my God is. This is my declaration.
- Joel Olsteen
Notable Quotables
When it comes to Starbucks, I take every threat very personally.
- Howard Schultz
Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
- Timothy Ferriss
I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
- Richard Branson
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.
- Bill Gates
I think Steve Jobs is my idol.
- Ma Huateng
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
- Rupert Murdoch
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.
- Harvey Mackay
It was a big momentum deal, so when the bottom comes out from under it, you have to go back to the well and start the whole thing.
- Travis Kalanick
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
The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don’t think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.
- Hugh Jackman
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.
- Winston Churchill
[On Twitter] This company is bigger than any individual.
- Jack Dorsey
Everything in life is luck.
- Donald Trump
I’m surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.
- Steve Wozniak
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
- John C. Maxwell
My drive into high tech doesn’t involve a lot of people – just me and a very small team.
- Raymond Kwok
These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
- Winston Churchill
I never took classic business classes in college, so I don’t have the background that any of the people running large companies have.
- Howard Schultz
People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
- Elon Musk
I love making something complex. I love taking everything away, taking all the debris, the conceptual debris from a technology away so that you can just focus on what’s most important.
- Jack Dorsey
Use your feelings, Obi-Wan, and find him you will.
- Yoda
Perhaps the most important thing that I learned as an entrepreneur was to focus on what I needed to get right and stop worrying about all the things that I did wrong or might do wrong.
- Ben Horowitz
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
- Winston Churchill
The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.
- John C. Maxwell
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
- Walt Disney
Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
- Seth Godin
I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.
- Ben Horowitz
Monotony reveals our limitations.
- Dale Carnegie
My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
- Elon Musk
You’re got to worry about what’s coming up to stay ahead of the curve…
- Phil Knight
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
- General George S. Patton
You may think you’re getting the short end of the stick, but when it’s all said and done, God will make sure that you don’t lose anything truly valuable. Moreover, He’ll make sure you get your just reward. Your responsibility is to remain calm and peaceable even when those around you are not.
- Joel Olsteen
Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you’ll create credit… So you reach a certain point that that you can’t do that anymore… There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred?
- Ray Dalio
We gave new customers $10 for joining, and we gave them $10 more every time they referred a friend.
- Peter Thiel
Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.
- Bill Gates
Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can’t see it.
- Seth Godin
Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Have you ever heard of Gmail? Ever used it? If so, it’s not because Gmail ran a lot of TV ads (they didn’t). It’s because the manifesto of free email got to you.
- Seth Godin
I’m getting better. I’m improving. My health is coming back,” those words began to create a new image on the inside. Before long, they started seeing themselves strong, healthy, and whole.
- Joel Olsteen
Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
- Seth Godin
I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.
- Joel Olsteen
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
- Og Mandino
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.
- John Maxwell
Failure is a great teacher, and I have been its student on more than one occasion. – CEO David Novak of Yum! Brands
- David Novak
De-escalating the rivalry post-merger wasn’t easy, but as far as problems go, it was a good one to have.
- Peter Thiel
I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I’ve tried to really stress that.
- Larry Page
While a definitely optimistic future would need engineers to design underwater cities and settlements in space, an indefinitely optimistic future calls for more bankers and lawyers.
- Peter Thiel
Some city-council people are really awesome, but most are uninspired. I meet with them as little as possible.
- Travis Kalanick
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
- Ray Kroc
Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.
- Vladimir Potanin
Half of College Grads Are Working Jobs That Don’t Require A Degree, Forbes 2013 college graduates have are an average of $32,500 in debt.
- CNNMoney
Sound managerial decisions are at the very root of their impending fall from industry leadership.
- Clayton M. Christensen
I’ve worked very hard, but my life’s always been fun.
- Reed Hastings
The Habit of Saving does not mean that you shall limit your earning capacity, it means just the opposite – that you shall apply this law so that it not only conserves that which you earn, in a systematic manner, but it also places you in the way of greater opportunity and gives you the vision, the self-confidence, the imagination, the enthusiasm, the initiative and leadership actually to increase your earning capacity.
- Napoleon Hill
Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.
- John C. Maxwell
The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.
- Joel Olsteen
I usually describe myself as an engineer. That’s basically what I’ve been doing since I was a kid.
- Elon Musk
If you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will.
- Donald Trump
I’m not losing any sleep over Dunkin Donuts.
- Howard Schultz
Always keep our eyes open for people with potential.
- John Maxwell
To change somebody’s behavior, change the level of respect she receives by giving her a fine reputation to live up to. Act as though the trait you are trying to influence is already one of the person’s outstanding characteristics.
- Dale Carnegie
I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.
- Bill Gates
I’m in two modes when I’m on Lanai: In engineering mode, I’m trying to find the right place for the reservoir and the desalination plant, and looking at designs for new hotel rooms. The rest of the time, I’m in decompression mode. I’m on Hulopoe Beach, going for a swim, or on my paddleboard surrounded by 100 spinner dolphins.
- Larry Ellison
It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.
- Joel Olsteen
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
- Steven Spielberg
Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can’t control.
- Michael Bloomberg
We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
- Elon Musk
We just tried to get our shoes on the feet of runners.
- Phil Knight
Reckless he is. Matters are worse.
- Yoda
It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin.
- Alexei Mordashov
To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.
- John C. Maxwell
I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say.
- Donald Trump
A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.
- Jerry Seinfeld
You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
- Joel Olsteen
I despise research. I think it’s a crutch.
- Howard Schultz
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They’re combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.
- Jack Dorsey
Don’t just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win, you were born for greatness, you were created to be a champion in life.
- Joel Olsteen
A Timid Trapeze Artist Is a Dead Trapeze Artist.
- Seth Godin
If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.
- Joel Olsteen
This shows you are never too old to get surprised.
- Jack Welch
For Starbucks, there will be no shortage of the highest-quality arabica beans. I suspect that for some others there could potentially be a problem, not in the near term, but over time.
- Howard Schultz
Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.
- John C. Maxwell
Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems before returning home.
- Aliko Dangote
We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we’re in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There’s no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.
- Steve Ballmer
To add value to others, one must first value others.
- John C. Maxwell
I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what’s up in question.
- Ronald Perelman
In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.
- Bill Gates
I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump… I like that guy. I’ve been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.
- Jack Ma
Perfect target market for a startup is a small group of particular.
- Peter Thiel
Many entrepreneurs focus only on short-term growth. They have an excuse: growth is easy to measure, but durability isn’t.
- Peter Thiel
In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it’s not the only place to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. [Silicon Valley] is a little short-term focused and that bothers me.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Good and great are seldom in the same man.
- Winston Churchill
When you do more than you’re paid for, eventually you’ll be paid for more than you do.
- Zig Ziglar
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.
- Donald Trump
You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.
- Harvey Mackay
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
- Oprah Winfrey
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A decade and a half ago an ‘Esquire’ magazine reporter, noting our advertising played up the heros as aspects of great atheletes asked the question, who is your hero? My answer was simple. My college track coach and partner, Bill Bowerman. He had won four national championships, coached more sub four minute milers than anyone when he retired. He was the 1972 Olympic coach yet he insisted he was not a track coach. He was a professor of competitive response.
- Phil Knight





