Use technology to remind people that we are really human and civilization is meant to connect together. Civilization is meant to be easy, and the technology to completely disappear. And should be easy to pick up.
- Jack Dorsey
Notable Quotables
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
I think it is a sad day for the company and we are going to miss him. But, typically of him, he has planned his own succession immaculately. We will have a dinner and a nice party for him.
- Simon Wolfson
Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition all profits get competed away.
- Peter Thiel
A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat.
- James C. Collins
These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it’s so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
- Michael Bloomberg
Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.
- Herb Kelleher
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you’re moving.
- Timothy Ferriss
In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors.
- Raymond Kwok
Elite students climb confidently until they reach a level of competition sufficiently intense to beat their dreams out of them. Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?
- Peter Thiel
When people lack concrete plans to carry out, they use formal rules to assemble a portfolio of various options.
- Peter Thiel
it was necessary to bait the hook to suit the fish.
- Dale Carnegie
How will your new job differ from your current job?
- Ben Horowitz
The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
- Bill Gates
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
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
Nonetheless, that know-how is often unmanageable. Avoidable failures are commmon and persistent, not to mention demoralizing and frustrating, across many fields – from medicine to finance, business to government. And the reason is increasingly evident: the volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely, or reliably. Knowledge has both saved us and burdened us. That means we need a different strategy for overcoming failure, one that builds on experience and takes advantage of the knowledge people have but somehow also makes up for our inevitable human inadequacies. And there is such a strategy – though it will seem almost ridiculous in its simplicity, maybe even crazy to those of us who have spent years carefully developing ever more advanced skills and technologies. It is a checklist.
- Atul Gawande
You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything thatâs wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedback, particularly from friends.
- Elon Musk
Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.
- Jeff Bezos
Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.
- Bill Gates
Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.
- Harvey Mackay
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, neverâin nothing, great or small, large or pettyânever give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
- Winston Churchill
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
- Zig Ziglar
I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, ‘It’s all your fault.’ Your reaction is, ‘It’s not my fault.’ But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.
- Ben Horowitz
The good-to-great leaders never wanted to become larger-than-life heroes. They never aspired to be put on a pedestal or become unreachable icons. They were seemingly ordinary people quietly producing extraordinary results.
- James C. Collins
I have ways of making money that you know nothing aboutâĤ(if youâre firm wonât sell) you will stand alone, Your firm can never make any more money in Cleveland. No use trying to do business in competition with Standard Oil Company. If you do (continue to fight) it will end in your being wiped out.
- John D. Rockefeller
You must develop a verification system for anything in your business that you expect to happen.
- Clay Clark
Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people wonât so you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant.
- Warren G. Tracy
If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
- Elon Musk
The only career worth pursuing is the one that turns your crank.
- Jack Welch
Weâre responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. thatâs something we brought to computing. And so itâs a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security donât get in the way of that dream.
- Bill Gates
about 15 percent of oneâs financial success is due to oneâs technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineeringâto personality and the ability to lead people.
- Dale Carnegie
We just tried to get our shoes on the feet of runners.
- Phil Knight
Success doesn’t make you and failure doesn’t break you.
- Zig Ziglar
Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
Don’t equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don’t let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you’d like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.
- Harvey Mackay
As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.
- Richard Branson
The work relationship has to be based on mutual respect. Psychological despotism is basically contemptuousâfar more contemptuous than the traditional Theory X. It does not assume that people are lazy and resist work, but it assumes that the manager is healthy while everybody else is sick. It assumes that the manager is strong while everybody else is weak. It assumes that the manager knows while everybody else is ignorant. It assumes that the manager is right, whereas everybody else is stupid. These are the assumptions of foolish arrogance.
- Peter Drucker
Be a coach, instead of being a boss. Rather than tell people what to do, a leader helps team members figure it out for themselves. That way, when itâs time for them to take the training wheels off, theyâll have some experience to draw on. Thatâs the way it was with me and Andy. We were working together, I felt like I was making all the decisions even though he had the title
- David Novak
The most obvious market segment in email-based payments was the millions of emigrants still using Western Union to wire money to their families back home. Our product made that effortless, but the transactions were too infrequent.
- Peter Thiel
There’s a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There’s a lot of sex, you know, in art. There’s a lot of naked women and men, and there’s intrigue, there’s fakery. It’s a real microcosm of the larger world.
- Steve Martin
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
- Donald Trump
When the pressure is on, great leaders are at the their best.
- Napoleon Hill
Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.
- John C. Maxwell
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
Itâs not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. Thereâs nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
- Bill Gates
When Steve Jobs was at NeXT, he was really getting his head together and taking control and becoming the person that, when he came back to Apple, you know, he was ready to really run the company and keep control of things and watch what was being done and develop new products secretly that were really incredibly great.
- Steve Wozniak
I… had no need for cheering dreams,â he wrote. Facts are better than dreams.
- James C. Collins
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
- Warren G. Bennis
Finance epitomizes indefinite thinking because itâs the only way to make money when you have no idea how to create wealth. If they donât go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers. And once they arrive at Goldman, they find that even inside finance, everything is indefinite. Itâs still optimisticâyou wouldnât play in the markets if you expected to loseâbut the fundamental tenet is that the market is random; you canât know anything specific or substantive; diversification becomes supremely important.
- Peter Thiel
Your job isnât to do your job. Your job is to decide what to do next.
- Seth Godin
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
- Warren Buffett
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
It’s not about toughness, it’s not about attitude. Companies don’t fail for lack of cash or attitude. Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.
- Mark Cuban
My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
- Sara Blakely
Do what you want to do. Do what you like to do.
- Lei Jun
God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
- Joel Olsteen
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
- Brian Tracy
People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Money is not the motivating force. It’s nice to have money, but I don’t live high. What I enjoy is running the business.
- Rupert Murdoch
As God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days.Why should you and I?
- Dr. Spencer Johnson
Customers have different need states and life experiences.
- Howard Schultz
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
- Ben Horowitz
The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.
- Bill Gates
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out whatâs next.
- Steve Jobs
The book ‘Do You!’ is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you – then the freedom comes. And we’re only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn’t make happy.
- Russell Simmons
Direct results always come first. In the care and feeding of an organization, they play the role calories play in the nutrition of the human body.
- Peter Drucker
People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
- Zig Ziglar
If you live for the weekends and vacations, your shit is broken.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
- Mark Zuckerberg
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
- Thomas Edison
Nothing good ever happens after 9:00 PM.
- Andy Pearson
Every leaderâs potential is determined by the people closest to him. No matter what I did with that staff, they would never be able to take the organization to the place we needed to go.
- Napoleon Hill
Itâs lonely at the top, so you had better take someone with youâĤand itâs lonely at the top, so you had better know why you are there.
- Napoleon Hill
I remember clearly when the financial plan â If i may call it so â of my life was formed. It was out in Ohio, under the ministration of a dear old minister who preached, Get money; get it honestly, and then give it away wisely. I wrote that down in a little book.
- Ron Chernow
Never, give in! Never give in! Never, never, never… In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!
- Winston Churchill
At the end of the day âĤ Nexium is Nexium, Lipitor is Lipitor, drugs are drugs, and it shouldnât matter that much whoâs counting to 30.
- George Paz
Today is the tommorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Dale Carnegie
Fear is the Fatal killer of Desire.
- Zig Ziglar
As an entrepreneur, remove obstacles for your team. If there is anything that is holding the team back, get it out of the way.
- David Nilssen
Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.
- Richard Branson
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
- Bill Gates
Even though about 60% of our product is bought by people who donât use it for the actual sport, everything we did was aimed at the top.
- Phil Knight
Ideas are cheap. The difficult part is finding the team to execute them.
- Raymond Kwok
We gave new customers $10 for joining, and we gave them $10 more every time they referred a friend.
- Peter Thiel
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
- Mark Zuckerberg
You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.
- Richard Branson
When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.
- Ray Dalio
There’s 20 companies that I have investments in – some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.
- Bill Gates
Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.
- Bill Gates
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts … genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation … the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality …though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]
- Winston Churchill
Lifeâs too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You canât please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.
- Joel Olsteen
My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someoneâs talent and not someoneâs personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
- Elon Musk
Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.
- Henry Ford
I’d say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that’s a conventional and perhaps mundane answer, but my family was blown apart at the start of World War II.
- Herb Kelleher
If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.
- Jack Welch