Notable Quotables

As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot.

- Ray Kroc

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

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

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

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

- Zig Ziglar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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