As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot.
- Ray Kroc
Notable Quotables
Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn’t really bother me.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Excellence isn’t achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You’ve got to have both.
- George Foreman
We are focusing on the increasing need for mobility and growing demand from our industrial customers. The production volume for vehicles weighing up to six tons is expected to rise to between 100 million and 105 million vehicles. Furthermore, installation of electronics and software will continue to grow substantially, driven by growing demands from end-users and increasingly strict legal requirements for safety and energy consumption. It is partly on this basis that we are aiming for profitable sales of over €50 billion in 2020.
- Elmar Degenhart
You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be… better.
- Elon Musk
The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
- Bill Gates
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
- Henry Ford
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
- Walt Disney
We gradually came to the realization that we were hurting not just ourselves but the Chinese people.
- Sergey Brin
Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
- Ray Kroc
Few people are logical. Most of us are prejudiced and biased. Most of us are blighted with preconceived notions, with jealousy, suspicion, fear, envy and pride.
- Dale Carnegie
Today, all arrows point toward the biotech, nanotech, and information technology industries, and the convergence among them.
- Jack Welch
Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you’ll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it’s twice the efficiency of a Prius.
- Elon Musk
All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they’re all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul.
- Masayoshi Son
I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.
- Dale Carnegie
Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.
- Seth Godin
One who buys things to write them off for their business whether they need them or not and who borrows massive sums of money to buy frozen yogurt and cupcake franchises that cannot possibly generate enough money to produce a livable wage, much less anything approaching prosperity.
- Clay Clark
To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi – that’s what we’re here for.
- Russell Simmons
Nike was the great goddess of victory.
- Phil Knight
Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
- Richard Branson
When you simplify… When you get down to the essence, you fix so many things.
- Jack Dorsey
We must remember that our children are very much what we make them.
- Dale Carnegie
During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.
- Winston Churchill
For years we thought of ourselves as a production-oriented company, meaning we put all our emphasis on designing and manufacturing the products. But now we understand the most important thing we do is market the product… Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.
- Phil Knight
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important – and then get out of their way while they do it.
- Jack Welch
The good-will of a business which is losing money is not worth much.
- Ron Chernow
You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.
- John C. Maxwell
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
- Zig Ziglar
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
- Thomas Edison
Failing forward” is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.
- John C. Maxwell
Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.
- Joel Olsteen
Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, – it largely increases the product.
- P.T. Barnum
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.
- Peter Drucker
Capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.
- Bill Gates
Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
- Bill Gates
You didn’t grow up driving…you figured it out.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Don’t sling mud at others or soon you will find yourself in a deeper hole than when you started.
- Clay Clark
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.
- John C. Maxwell
So, the judgment that you have to make is (a) is this market really much bigger (more than an order of magnitude) than has been exploited to date? and (b) are we going to be number one? If the answer to either (a) or (b) is no, then you should consider selling.
- Ben Horowitz
Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people’s stories, it’s easier to understand their demeanor.
- Joel Olsteen
Then he fell on his knees and cried out, Lord do not hold this sin against them. When he said this, he fell asleep (he died).
- Acts 7:60
Inability to Cooperate With Others.
- Napoleon Hill
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
- Peter Drucker
When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
- Carl Icahn
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
- Bill Gates
My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We’re professionals. That’s what we do. I don’t give a damn about the short-term market implications.
- Stephen Wynn
Early must I rise. Leave now you must!
- Yoda
Sometimes you may have to trade places with someone who is hurting.
- Joel Olsteen
Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that’s going aswamp in its own sludge.
- Ray Kroc
There are only two kinds of employees that I’ve run across in 30 years. There are ones that get results, and ones that make excuses. If you’re in that second camp, you’re not going to like Dish.
- Charles Ergen
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another….
- Thomas Edison
The basic problem with the computer in business is not that computer technicians do not understand the managers’ needs. It is that the managers do not take the time and trouble to think through their needs and to communicate them to the computer people.6 How the computer people satisfy the needs of the manager is their business. What the needs are is the manager’s business. To expect the computer people to define the information needs of the managers is abdication.
- Peter Drucker
Its never too late…to start heading in the right direction.
- Seth Godin
All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We’ve got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.
- Steve Ballmer
I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family that would have killed for each other – and we still are. x
- Richard Branson
Poke the box How do computer programmers learn their art? Is there a step-by-step process that guarantees you’ll get good? All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works. The box might be a computer or it might be a market or it might be a customer or it might be your boss. It’s a puzzle, one that can be solved in only one way—by poking.
- Seth Godin
Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.
- Tony Hsieh
Look, winning and losing can’t be quantified. They are states of mind, and losing happens only when you give up. Seen that way, then, the world can be filled with winners, and there is room for them all.
- Jack Welch
Culture is one of the most precious things a company has…So you must work harder on it than anything else.
- Herb Kelleher
If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.
- Joel Olsteen
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
- Seth Godin
The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes.
- P.T. Barnum
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
- Henry Ford
In business, if you don’t kick and hug, you don’t love.
- Clay Clark
When those in power use shame to bully the weak into compliance, they are stealing from us. They tell us that they will expose our secrets (not good enough, not hardworking enough, not from the right family, made a huge mistake once) and will use the truth to exile us from our tribe. This shame, the shame that lives deep within each of us, is used as a threat. And when those in power use it, they take away part of our humanity.
- Seth Godin
Many of our best opportunities were created out of necessity. The things that we were forced to learn and do, because we started out underfinanced and undercapitalized in these remote small communities, contributed mightily to the way we’ve grown as a company. Had we been capitalized, or had we been the offshoot of a large corporation the way I wanted to be, we might not ever have tried…
- Sam Walton
A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller
Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
- Donald Trump
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
- Peter Drucker
The best entrepreneurs I’ve ever met are all good communicators. It’s perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.
- Timothy Ferriss
We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that’s the easiest part of the game,
- Jack Welch
Don’t try to create a new market prematurely. The only way to know you have a real business is to start with an already existing customer, so you should build your company by improving on recognizable products already offered by successful competitors.
- Peter Thiel
We remain confident about the market opportunity ahead of us over the next three to five years.
- John Chambers
In the short term, the market is a popularity contest. In the long term, the market is a weighing machine.
- Warren Buffett
Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away.
- Napoleon Hill
Lose money for the firm and I will be understanding. Lose a shred of reputation and I will be ruthless.
- Warren Buffett
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
It’s not what I have, but it is who I am.
- Ben Meinhardt
It’s no secret that we were sticking just above every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
- Walt Disney
My home is in Moscow and I have no plans to change this.
- Alisher Usmanov
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It’s intense to fight the red tape.
- Travis Kalanick
My father encouraged me to study something I was interested in, not necessarily the basis for a career.
- Michael Balmuth
I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.
- Steve Ballmer
All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill
China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers.
- Howard Schultz
The ballplayer who loses his head can’t keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
- Lou Gehrig
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
Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.
- Dale Carnegie
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
- Henry Ford
The man who cannot control himself, can never control others. Self-control sets a mighty example for one’s followers, which the more intelligent will emulate.
- Napoleon Hill
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.
- Bill Gates
Possession of Power That Was Not Acquired Through Self Effort.
- Napoleon Hill
I want to get involved in things that makes a difference in peoples lives and lifts them up. I don’t want to be a part of anything that’s not inspiring or helpful to the community that I’m serving.
- Russell Simmons
Starting a company is a very tough thing. There’s a friend of mine, Bill Lee, whose phrase is ‘starting a company is like staring into the abyss and eating glass.’ So you should certainly expect that it’s going to be very hard. It’s going to be harder than getting a job somewhere by a pretty good margin and the odds of you losing the money that you invested or your friends invested is pretty high. I mean, those are just the basic facts. So if you don’t mind things being really hard and high risk, then starting a company is a good idea. Otherwise, it’s probably unwise. It will certainly stress you out. So I think you have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
- Elon Musk
Effective mission statements balance the possible and the impossible.
- Jack Welch
At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.
- Lakshmi Mittal
The way to get things done,” says Schwab, is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.
- Dale Carnegie
We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.
- Howard Schultz





