Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
- Zig Ziglar
Notable Quotables
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake … Religion is all bunk.
- Thomas Edison
Most of a tech company’s value will come at least 10 to 15 years in the future.
- Peter Thiel
Steve Jobs’ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.
- Bill Gates
The Roman world, like an aged man, wished to dwell in peace and tranquillity and to enjoy in philosophic detachment the good gifts which life has to bestow upon the more fortunate classes. But new ideas disturbed the internal conservatism, and outside the carefully guarded frontiers vast masses of hungry, savage men surged and schemed. The essence of the Roman peace was toleration of all religions and the acceptance of a universal system of government. Every generation after the middle of the second century saw an increasing weakening of the system and a gathering movement towards a uniform religion. Christianity asked again all the questions which the Roman world deemed answered for ever, and some that it had never thought of.
- Winston Churchill
1. It is better to risk boldness than triviality.2. A bad plan is better than no plan.3. Competitive markets destroy profits.4. Sales matters just as much as product.
- Peter Thiel
[On the three keys to Twitter’s success.] The first lesson: Draw. The most important thing you can do with an idea: get it out of your head. Second lesson: Luck. Be able to recognize when luck is happening around you. Third lesson: iteration. Originally Twitter asked ‘What’s your status?’ Bonus fourth lesson: know when to stop. Sometimes put the idea away, that idea will often emerge later.
- Jack Dorsey
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
What I’m trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that there’s inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your entire portfolio that gets you balanced.
- Ray Dalio
New customers are silver…loyal customers are gold.
- Anonymous
I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy.
- Michael Gerber
Profit in business comes from repeat customers; customers that boast about your product and service, and that bring friends with them.
- W. Clement Stone
To grow your company explosively you must have leaders, not just efficient managers.
- John Maxwell
Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant.
- Warren G. Tracy
You’ve got to take a big jump to make it. You’ve got to have great big balls.
- Forrest Ray
It’s so easy to tweet from wherever you are.
- Jack Dorsey
Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.
- Reid Hoffman
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
Leaders don’t rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits, they make every day a masterpiece.
- John C. Maxwell
Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.
- Bill Gates
Leaders think like a revolutionary not a bureaucrat.
- Napoleon Hill
All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.
- Peter Thiel
After assessing the prospects of the various business segments of Henderson Cyber, the company, Henderson Investment, Hong Kong and China Gas and Henderson Cyber jointly announced in August 2005, the proposed privatisation of Henderson Cyber by Henderson Investment and Hong Kong and China Gas…
- Lee Shau Kee
I love technology, and I love science. It’s just always all in the way you use it. So there’s no – you can’t really blame anything on the technology. It’s just the way people use it, and it always has been.
- Steve Martin
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
- Ben Horowitz
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is overcertain of his plot.
- Paul Theroux
The love of a foster mother for her charge appears absolutely irrational.
- Winston Churchill
My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.
- Elon Musk
We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.
- Seth Godin
Superstition of Prejudice.
- Napoleon Hill
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
- John C. Maxwell
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
- Zig Ziglar
I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.
- Elon Musk
A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
- Howard Schultz
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
- Jack Welch
The first is the result of a decision to act—to do something. This type of mistake is made with incomplete information, as it’s impossible to have all the facts beforehand. This is to be encouraged. Fortune favors the bold. The second is the result of a decision of sloth—to not do something—wherein we refuse to change a bad situation out of fear despite having all the facts. This is how learning experiences become terminal punishments, bad relationships become bad marriages, and poor job choices become lifelong prison sentences.
- Timothy Ferriss
You can’t spend as much money as I have, even if you try. I’ve been trying.
- Larry Ellison
I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places – or even the same place – people will turn the other way.
- Rupert Murdoch
It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
- Larry Page
It’s not what you’ve got. It’s what you use that makes a difference.
- Zig Ziglar
These are all commodity-focused issues. The old conceit of a retailer was that if you offered the right products at a fair price in a convenient location, you’d do fine if you watched your expenses. Today, the issues are totally different.
- Seth Godin
Exercise is overrated.
- Timothy Ferriss
God doesn’t look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.
- Mother Teresa
By establishing a reputation as being a person who always renders more service and better service than that for which you are paid, you will benefit by comparison with those around you who do not render such service, and the contrast will be so noticeable that there will be keen competition for your services, no matter what your life-work may be.
- Napoleon Hill
To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.
- Timothy Ferriss
Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.
- Michael Dell
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
- Elon Musk
The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realise in some subtle way that you realise their importance, and recognise it sincerely.
- Dale Carnegie
Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.
- Gary Keller
Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.
- George Soros
I’m a big believer than a great bit is a great bit – if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they’re beautiful things when they’re done.
- Jerry Seinfeld
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
- John Wooden
Success is doing what you want, where you want, when you want, with whom you want and as much as you want.
- Tony Robbins
Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
- Carl Icahn
Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.
- Ben Horowitz
Why do I drive a truck? What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?
- Sam Walton
So many people label themselves a failure when they fail at something. Instead, the entrepreneurial spirit is realizing that these failures are a necessary part of the path to wherever you’re going to end up.
- Tony Hsieh
Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.
- Lisa Stone
The higher the level of leadership people want to reach, the greater the sacrifices they will have to make?
- John Maxwell
Casualness causes casualties.
- Tim Redmond
My little girls are the most beautiful women in the world. I am a lucky, lucky man. I will spend every day making sure that they know this.
- Russell Simmons
[On the cost to found Nike] Six hundred dollars each. Twelve hundred dollars total investment.
- Phil Knight
There’s never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.
- Zig Ziglar
These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
- Winston Churchill
I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I’m afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.
- Stephen Wynn
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
The lesson of the Ford story is that managers and management are the specific need of the business enterprise, its specific organ, and its basic structure. We can say dogmatically that enterprise cannot do without managers. One cannot argue that management does the owner’s job by delegation. Management is needed not only because the job is too big for any one man to do himself, but because managing an enterprise is something essentially different from managing one’s own property.
- Peter Drucker
Often, out of our greatest rejection comes our greatest direction.
- Joel Olsteen
The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.
- Timothy Ferriss
Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.”
- Warren G. Bennis
Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war. Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, I am strong.
- Joel 3:9
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
- Thomas Edison
I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.
- Mark Zuckerberg
Use money to make money. Save your ‘first bucket of gold.’ or small fortune – but then use it for investments. Don’t just park money in the bank.
- Lee Shau Kee
Customers today are strongly value oriented. But just what does that mean? Customers tell us that value means the results they receive in relation to the total costs (both the price and other costs to customers incurred in acquiring the service).
- Gary W. Lo
Only God can look at somebody’s heart.
- Joel Olsteen
The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths.
- Peter Thiel
Looking? Found someone you have, eh?
- Yoda
The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.
- Bill Gates
Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It’s more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.
- Bill Gates
The time will never be just right, you must act now.
- Napoleon Hill
Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.
- Richard Branson
What we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Brian Tracy
Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
- Albert Einstein
Twitter was not started because we started a company. Twitter was started because we had a good idea, and it started out of a failed company. That can happen out of any company today.
- Jack Dorsey
I’d never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn’t exist.
- Sara Blakely
Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.
- Yoda
Let’s never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let’s do as General Eisenhower does: let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.
- Dale Carnegie
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
- David Novak
Even though I’m a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I’m looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Never be bothered by what people say, as long as you know in your heart you are right.
- Dale Carnegie
Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
- Elon Musk
I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
- Tadashi Yanai
I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
- Elon Musk
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- Henry Ford
Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don’t want.
- Timothy Ferriss
Don’t Hire People Like Yourself.
- Forrest Ray
I haven’t failed,I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- Zig Ziglar
