Notable Quotables

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong questionl

- Peter Drucker

My personal opinion is that I’m in the media too much. I’m not a politician, I’m a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

- Viktor Vekselberg

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.

- Thomas Edison

I had a will to win that come from being raised poor.

- Sam Huff

Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

- Larry Page

We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin’ thinkin’ which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.

- Zig Ziglar

One of the things that I’m really proud of is that I have really good timing. It’s very easy for me to see what’s coming up and it’s no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media – none at all.

- Gary Vaynerchuk

I Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but i am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter

- Walt Disney

Okay, let’s talk about cartoon labels for half a second – some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It’s, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it’s actually a solid wine.

- Gary Vaynerchuk

Make sure your ego lies in the performance of the company, not in the performance of the stock.

- Warren Buffett

1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20).2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson’s Law).

- Timothy Ferriss

No matter who you are, you need two kinds of friends in your life. The first kind is one you can call when something good happens, and you need someone who will be excited for you. Not a fake excitement veiling envy, but a real excitement. You need someone who will actually be more excited for you than he would be if it had happened to him. The second kind of friend is somebody you can call when things go horribly wrong—when your life is on the line and you only have one phone call. Who is it going to be? Bill Campbell is both of those friends.

- Ben Horowitz

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

- Winston Churchill

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

- Sergey Brin

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

- Seth Godin

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

- Harry Truman

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

- Henry Ford

In a poor organization, on the other hand, people spend much of their time fighting organizational boundaries, infighting, and broken processes. They are not even clear on what their jobs are, so there is no way to know if they are getting the job done or not. In the miracle case that they work ridiculous hours and get the job done, they have no idea what it means for the company or their careers. To make it all much worse and rub salt in the wound, when they finally work up the courage to tell management how fucked-up their situation is, management denies there is a problem, then defends the status quo, then ignores the problem.

- Ben Horowitz

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

- Bill Gates

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

- Elon Musk

A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.

- Winston Churchill

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

- Dale Carnegie

I love the presentation from the more flamboyant guy, who excitedly presents his plans.

- Jack Welch

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

- Oscar Wilde

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

- Richard Branson

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

This isn’t stealing this is standing on the shoulders of giants.

- David Novak

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

- Ben Horowitz

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

- Joel Olsteen

It’s what we wrestle with every single day. The intersection of comfort, danger, and safety. The balancing act between vulnerability and shame. The opportunity (or the risk) to do art. The willingness to take responsibility for caring enough to make a difference and to have a point of view.

- Seth Godin

The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.

- Jorge Paulo Lemann

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the ‘naturals’, the ones who somehow know how to teach.

- Peter Drucker

Our customers call and e-mai us to say that’s how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that’s how we view this company.

- Tony Hsieh

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

- Jeff Bezos

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

- Elon Musk

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

- Jack Welch

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

- Bill Gates

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

- Seth Godin

Younglings, younglings gather ’round.

- Yoda

[In 1998] The Nike product has become synonymous with slave wages, forced overtime, and arbitrary abuse.

- Phil Knight

I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.

- Wang Jianlin

I DECLARE I will live victoriously. I was created in the image of God. I have the DNA of a winner. I am wearing a crown of favor. Royal blood flows through my veins. I am the head, never the tail, above never beneath. I will live with purpose, passion, and praise, knowing that I was destined to live in victory. This is my declaration.

- Joel Olsteen

Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the entrepreneurial mind in the United States.

- Masayoshi Son

I’m not a businessman — I’m a business, man.

- Jay-Z

It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

- Zig Ziglar

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

- Elon Musk

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.

- Winston Churchill

My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.

- Sara Blakely

Options – the ability to choose – is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money – a lot more money – by doing half of what you are doing now.

- Timothy Ferriss

Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective – doing less – is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

- Timothy Ferriss

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.

- Winston Churchill

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

- George Soros

People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.

- Howard Schultz

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

- Mukesh Ambani

Branding is what people think about you before they even know you.

- Bryan Smith

the average person is more interested in his or her own name than in all the other names on earth put together.

- Dale Carnegie

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

- Bill Gates

If you’re going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don’t work.

- Seth Godin

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

- Warren Buffett

If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.

- Joel Olsteen

Peter Drucker once observed that the drive for mergers and acquisitions comes less from sound reasoning and more from the fact that doing deals is a much more exciting way to spend your day than doing actual work.

- James C. Collins

When completed the new facility will have the capacity to accommodate approximately 3,000 staff.

- John Chambers

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

- Mark Zuckerberg

I’m not a public official. I’m a businessman, I’m a builder, I’m a planner.

- Donald Bren

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

- Timothy Ferriss

I’ve been fascinated with technology since I was a boy banging around on my father’s adding machine. Back then I’d type in an equation, the device made some cool noises, and out came my answer. I was hooked.

- Michael Dell

Lay out what you’re doing to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

- David Novak

When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They’re playing the sprint. They’re not worried about lifetime value and retention. They’re worried about short-term goals.

- Gary Vaynerchuk

Success is one thing you can’t pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments every day.

- Zig Ziglar

India has been and continues to be a strategic market for Cisco both in terms of business opportunities and as a base for outstanding engineering talent, … With the launch of our new campus in Bangalore today, Cisco will be well placed to continue building our presence in India as a critical part of our R&D efforts and as the domestic market for networking products and solutions continues to expand.

- John Chambers

I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.

- Ben Horowitz

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

- Ray Kroc

We want to be the most predictable, boring growth company.

- John Chambers

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody’s got to pay for them so they’re a necessary evil.

- Michael Bloomberg

THE MOST CONTENTIOUS question in business is whether success comes from luck or skill.

- Peter Thiel

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

- Ron Chernow

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

- Napoleon Hill

The first thing I would do for anyone who’s trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

- Timothy Ferriss

Use what you have to run toward your best – that’s how I now live my life.

- Oprah Winfrey

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

- Zig Ziglar

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

- Bill Gates

When marketing put yourself in the shoes of the customer.

- David Novak

How you look, talk, and market your business is what should be keeping everyone busy.

- Bryan Smith

If someone’s criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don’t want to hear it. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.”

- Timothy Ferriss

Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing …

- Yoda

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

- Dale Carnegie

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.

- Bill Gates

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

- Peter Drucker

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