I’m a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that’s what I do.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Notable Quotables
I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
- Warren Buffett
The Monopoly Question Are you starting with a big share of a small market?
- Peter Thiel
Get the facts.
- David Novak
I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!
- Bill Gates
Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect’s mind.
- Zig Ziglar
We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
- Ray Kroc
I felt like Samson with a fresh haircut. But that dream of what the company could be sustained me.
- Ray Kroc
My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers’ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.
- Joel Olsteen
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
The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.
- Reed Hastings
Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation.
- Peter Thiel
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
- Zig Ziglar
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
- Jack Welch
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
- Zig Ziglar
Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
- George Washington Carver
Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring the burbling crowd and not eating bacon. All of these are useful habits.
- Seth Godin
To succeed consistently, good managers need to be skilled not just in choosing, training, and motivating the right people for the right job, but in choosing, building, and preparing the right organization for the job as well.
- Clayton M. Christensen
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
- Thomas Edison
China is likely to sustain its pace of economic growth for the next decade.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Being a great leader means sometimes pissing people off.
- Colin Powell
If I had to do it over again, I would have done the same but earlier. It is never too early to start something. The sooner you begin, the sooner you get your experience.
- Warren Buffett
What’s happening is that the two groups assume that the nature of the debate is really a matter of disagreement about their own sides’ core issues. Each side is assuming that people in the other group oppose what they hold most dear to themselves – what’s most important to their side – but in fact their adversaries really don’t oppose them.
- John Chambers
Play long enough and you might get lucky. In the technology game, tomorrow looks nothing like today. If you survive long enough to see tomorrow, it may bring you the answer that seems so impossible today.
- Ben Horowitz
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
- Harvey Mackay
To answer power with power, the Jedi way this is not. In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.
- Yoda
If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.
- John C. Maxwell
‘We are interested in others when they are interested in us.
- Publilius Syrus
This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.
- Bill Gates
My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.
- Peter Thiel
I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.
- Michael Bloomberg
Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
- Elon Musk
I believe we are in at least a two-quarter slowdown.
- John Chambers
Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.
- Jerry Seinfeld
If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
- Benjamin Hooks
I just wanted to be in show business. I didn’t care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.
- Steve Martin
At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then… we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
- Tadashi Yanai
It’s hard to make a living when you are in school…
- Michael Dell
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
- Warren Buffett
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
- Oprah Winfrey
I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
- Elon Musk
People will come to the pharmacy because they want the advice.
- Stefano Pessina
For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
- Zig Ziglar
Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
- Jeff Bezos
The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.
- Seth Godin
You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying. Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
- Napoleon Hill
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
There is never a bad time to start a business – unless you want to start a mediocre one.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.
- Peter Thiel
King Alfred’s Book of Laws, or Dooms, as set out in the existing laws of Kent, Wessex, and Mercia, attempted to blend the Mosaic code with Christian principles and old Germanic customs. He inverted the Golden Rule. Instead of “Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you”, he adopted the less ambitious principle, “What ye will that other men should not do to you, that do ye not to other men”, with the comment, “By bearing this precept in mind a judge can do justice to all men; he needs no other law-books. Let him think of himself as the plaintiff, and consider what judgment would satisfy him.” The King, in his preamble, explained modestly that “I have not dared to presume to set down in writing many laws of my own, for I cannot tell what will meet with the approval of our successors.
- Winston Churchill
I am an expert in Higher Level Math. You + God= Enough
- Zig Ziglar
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
- Napoleon Hill
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
- Dale Carnegie
WHY 20 MILE MARCHERS WIN 20 Mile Marching helps turn the odds in your favor for three reasons: 1. It builds confidence in your ability to perform well in adverse circumstances. 2. It reduces the likelihood of catastrophe when you’re hit by turbulent disruption. 3. It helps you exert self-control in an out-of-control environment.
- James C. Collins
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.
- Bill Gates
most people go through college and learn to read Virgil and master the mysteries of calculus without ever discovering how their own minds function.
- Dale Carnegie
The better at communicating you are, and the more people you communicate to, the better your cash flow will be.
- Robert Kiyosaki
A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
- Larry Ellison
New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.
- Zig Ziglar
lasting transformations from good to great follow a general pattern of buildup followed by breakthrough.
- James C. Collins
Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.
- Zig Ziglar
The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.
- John C. Maxwell
Establish late-payment penalties as part of your terms and conditions and enforce them.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
- Thomas Edison
To achieve stable growth, an enterprise must live up to its conviction.
- Cheng Yu-tung
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
- Warren Buffett
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater their power to harm us.
- Voltaire
When you acknowledge God, He will go before you and make the crooked places straight.
- Joel Olsteen
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn’t exactly been one of moderation.
- Donald Trump
Make your desires clear and reduce them to writing.
- Napoleon Hill
In periods of stress and grief, not only does your mind do funny things, you say things that surprise you.
- Phil Knight
Unfavorable hereditary back ground.
- Napoleon Hill
When unsavvy observers see a nonprofit organization with dozens of people on its board, they think: “Look how many great people are committed to this organization! It must be extremely well run.” Actually, a huge board will exercise no effective oversight at all; it merely provides cover for whatever microdictator actually runs the organization.
- Peter Thiel
We must hang together or we will hang together.
- Benjamin Franklin
Teaching Fire a LessonFire is hot. That’s what it does. If you get burned by fire, you can be annoyed at yourself, but being angry at fire doesn’t do you much good. And trying to teach the fire a lesson so it won’t be hot next time is certainly not time well spent.Our inclination is to give fire a pass, because it’s not human. But human beings are similar, in that they’re not going to change any time soon either.
- Seth Godin
I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
- Russell Simmons
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
- Napoleon Hill
A disagreement or incident involving someone who’s not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.
- Joel Olsteen
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
- Winston Churchill
I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process
- Oprah Winfrey
After its return to China, Hong Kong has become an inseparable part of this large country by exerting its business strengths to become a vital member of the country and developing its four pillar industries, namely finance, commerce, shipping and professional services.
- Cheng Yu-tung
Many residents have grown more cynical about government, … Sure, I want my constituents to feel good about me as their legislator, but we have to do something to restore the public’s faith in government.
- Michael Gerber
Twitter in 2000 was something that was fun to play with but something I put on the shelf to play with for another day. And that day was 2006.
- Jack Dorsey
When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.
- John C. Maxwell
Even working remotely should be avoided, because misalignment can creep in whenever colleagues aren’t together full-time, in the same place, every day.
- Peter Thiel
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
- Donald Trump
If you’re not seeing God move in your life right now, one of two possibilities must be considered. Either your requests are not God’s best and will probably not be answered the way you’d like or it must not be the right time. If God were to answer that prayer the way you are hoping, it could interfere with his ideal plan for you.
- Joel Olsteen
I had a will to win that come from being raised poor.
- Sam Huff
If you have enough push, you don’t have to worry about the pull.
- Zig Ziglar
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Relatively few people should start companies.
- Reid Hoffman
There was absolutely no consistency to the experience.
- Michael Gerber
There’s an old saying: To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. That’s the nature of the Law of Connection. Always touch a person’s heart before you ask for a hand.
- Michael Levine
Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.
- Sergey Brin
If you want to be inventive — you have to be willing to fail.
- Jeff Bezos
No newspapers, magazines, audiobooks, or nonmusic radio. Music is permitted at all times. No news websites whatsoever (cnn.com, drudgereport.com, msn.com,10 etc.). No television at all, except for one hour of pleasure viewing each evening. No reading books, except for this book and one hour of fiction11 pleasure reading prior to bed. No web surfing at the desk unless it is necessary to complete a work task for that day. Necessary means necessary, not nice to have.
- Timothy Ferriss
It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.
- Bill Gates
Does that mean that we should never hire or promote an inexperienced manager who had not already learned to do what needs to be done in this assignment? The answer: it depends. In a start-up company where there are no processes in place to get things done, then everything that is done must be done by individual people–resources. In this circumstance, it would be risky to draft someone with no experience to do the job–because in the absence of processes that can guide people, experienced people need to lead. But in established companies where much of the guidance to employees is provided by processes, and is less dependent upon managers with detailed, hands-on experience, then it makes sense to hire or promote someone who needs to learn from experience.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don’t have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.
- Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud
