Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
—Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud
If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.
—Andrew Mellon
The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.
—Li Ka-shing
You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.
—Walter Annenberg
Golf courses are the best place to observe ministers, but none of them are above cheating a bit.
—John D. Rockefeller
With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It’s been that way for years, and it hasn’t gotten much better.
—Carl Icahn
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I will ruin you.
—Cornelius Vanderbilt
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
—François-Marie Voltaire
Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.
—Ingvar Kamprad
My view is to give everyone the space to grow in his own way. When you see restructuring or separations in a family [firm], value has almost always been destroyed. This is the first case where value has been enhanced. In that way it has been a win-win ending.
—Mukesh Ambani
If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.
—Bernard Arnault
Today I see a billion people as a billion potential consumers, an opportunity to generate value for them and to make a return for myself.
—Mukesh Ambani
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.
—Bill Gates
I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It’s like I make a joke about nerd values, because I’m very much in the rich nerd tradition. And you know, we say, like, hey, people pay us for this stuff, like programming. You know, what else do we need?
—Craig Newmark
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren’t rich, because in a generous America you don’t have to be rich to achieve your potential.
—Barack Obama
For all of its faults, [capitalism] gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.
—Bill O’Reilly
I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well . . .
—Rene Rivkin
All programming for prosperity should be built on spiritual foundations. The first step is to enter the spiritual dimension, the alpha level, and determine what your purpose in life is. Find out what you are here for, what you are supposed to do with your life.
—Jose Silva
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
—Mother Teresa
I remain very much connected to my childhood . . . I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated—it keeps me alive every day.
—Hugh Hefner
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education—literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
—Alan Greenspan
If you don’t have integrity, you have nothing. You can’t buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.
—Henry Kravis
It boils down to luck. Circumstances could have been otherwise.
—Ernest Gallo
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
—Ray Kroc
What I try to do as I’m going up the trail, I try to bring with me other African-Americans who can then use my experience and gain credibility from what I’ve done to be their own successful person.
—Robert Johnson
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
—George Eastman
Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
—Jim Henson
I like to think in terms of giving people an understanding of why they should have the same passion as I do—why their life has purpose working here and why they should believe as much as I believe. I want them to seek a higher level of satisfaction above just making a salary.
—Charles Schwab
Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
—Martha Stewart
Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.
—Akira Mori
I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.
—Napoleon Hill
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can’t afford the risk of inaction.
—Rupert Murdoch
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
—Ted Turner
In life and business, there are two cardinal sins ... The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.
—Carl Icahn
People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they’re idiots.
—Eric Schmidt
I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don’t have the opportunity to find that out.
—Muhammad Yunus
The present era has no comparable referent in the past history of capitalism. We have a higher percentage of the intelligentsia engaged in buying and selling pieces of paper and promoting trading activity than in any past era. A lot of what I see now reminds me of Sodom and Gomorrah. You get activity feeding on itself, envy and imitation. It has happened in the past that there came bad consequences.
—Charles Munger
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
—William Handolph Hearst
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
—Samuel Johnson
Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani—even if it’s a fake. I like the fact that I’m so popular around the world.
—Giorgio Armani
The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things . . . it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future.
—Steve Forbes
I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven’t had any moral compass, who’ve just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they’re losers.
—Michael Bloomberg
I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life ... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.
—Mohamed Al-Fayed
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
—Barry Diller
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength . . . it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
—Li Ka-shing
A whale is harpooned only when it spouts.
—Henry Hillman
It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
—Sir Philip Green
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
—John D. Rockefeller
Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
—Armand Hammer
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, “She cared.”
—Mary Kay Ash
There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.
—Edward Atkinson
Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.
—Jim Rohn
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
—Warren Buffett
Diversity is a great force towards creativity.
—Michael Eisner
Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.
—William Handolph Hearst
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
—J. Paul Getty
I see nothing . . . in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism. During the winter months there may be some slackness or unemployment but hardly more than at this season each year. I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during the coming year the country will make steady progress.
—Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, December 31, 1929, in a statement issued while yachting off Nassau, the Bahamas, on his winter vacation
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
—Ted Turner
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
—John D. Rockefeller
I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.
—John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Father [John D. Rockefeller, Jr.] was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
—David Rockefeller
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
—Thomas Edison
Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa—and it’s about getting a balance.
—Richard Branson
One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. You may think you are more talented than the next guy. Which is exactly what the next guy thinks as well.
—Mark Cuban
A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.
—Ian Macfarlane
The cynics will tell you that the good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Just do it anyway.
—Roberto C. Goizueta
You can’t sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.
—Henry J. Kaiser
All my life people have said that I wasn’t going to make it.
—Ted Turner
The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
—Bhumibol Adulyadej
I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven’t had any moral compass, who’ve just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they’re losers.
—Michael Bloomberg
Superstition is the poison of the mind.
—Joseph Lewis
My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.
—Miuccia Prada
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
—Henry Ford
Family, religion, friends ... these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
—Charles Montgomery “Monty” Burns
As we go forward, I hope we’re going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.
—Sergey Brin
The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.
—Noel Whittaker
A man should never neglect his family for business.
—Walt Disney
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
—Coco Chanel
A person who retires feeling that he has done his bit will quickly wither away.
—Ingvar Kamprad
I have no Napoleonic dream. I’m just hard-working and pragmatic.
—Roman Abramovich
I didn’t go to high school, and I didn’t go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
—H. L. Hunt
The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.
—John Hay Whitney
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
—Lee Iacocca
Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.
—Lord Beaverbrook
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
—A. Alfred Taubman
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
—David Rockefeller
The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can’t give them that but let’s always keep it in mind.
—Barry Diller
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
—William Bernbach
Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser.
—Donald Trump
The most important thing is God’s blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.
—Mohamed Al-Fayed
I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it’s in sports, or it’s achieving in school, or it’s achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it’s all about.
—Sanford I. Weill
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
—Harvey S. Firestone
No sale, no commission. No commission, no eat. That made an impression on me.
—David Ogilvy
I have my own definition for the term “retirement.” Life was extremely hard when I was young; today working without the burden of pressure to me is the same as the luxury of retirement.
—Li Ka-shing
Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one’s body and train one’s mind.
—Anil Ambani
People first, then money, then things.
—Suze Orman
In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow’s point of view.
—James Cash Penny
I thought I’d have assistants do that stuff for me, which is why I missed the value of the digital era in so many ways. You can’t understand the power of technology unless you use it.
—Gerald W. Schwartz
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
—John F. Lehman, Jr.
The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.
—Charles Revson
In my own work, I’ve tried to anticipate what’s coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people’s lives in a meaningful way.
—Paul Allen
The feeling of having finished something is an effective sleeping pill.
—Ingvar Kamprad
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill ... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
—Li Ka-shing
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
All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
—Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
I have no friends and no enemies—only competitors.
—Aristotle Onassis
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
—Warren Buffett
An optimist feels these are the best of times; the pessimist feels the optimist may be right.
—Morton Zuckerman
Your mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely.
—Robert Kiyosaki
I have always believed that it’s important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
—T. Boone Pickens
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
—Philip Knight
I believe in the Scottish proverb: “Hard work never killed a man.” Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.
—David Ogilvy
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
—Epictetus
To truly prepare for the unexpected, you’ve got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens, you’re close enough to squeeze through.
—Pierre Omidyar
You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don’t have the cast of mind, you’re destined for failure even if you have a high I.Q.
—Charles Munger
You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.
—Li Ka-shing
When a mature and able manager feels bored, he should seriously consider changing jobs, changing companies or simply retiring. It is not fair to anyone for half a leader to hold a full-time leadership job.
—James L. Hayes
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
—Steven Spielberg
I supposed it would have been great to invent something as classic and enduring as the tuxedo. But if I was collecting royalties, I wish I’d invented the corkscrew.
—Giorgio Armani
I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.
—Guy Laliberte
We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first ... and that takes time. But we must do this quickly . . . the climate will not wait for us.
—Rupert Murdoch
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
—Martha Stewart
A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
—Andrew Mellon
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
—Thomas Edison
You can’t succeed unless you’ve got failure, especially creatively.
—Michael Eisner
Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
—Ray Kroc
There’s nothing wrong with being fired.
—Ted Turner
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
—Henry Ford
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
—Bhumibol Adulyadej
Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you’d rather not be. That is also a daily discipline and worth considering.
—Donald Trump
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
—Coco Chanel
Here’s what would be pitiful... if your income grew, but you didn’t.
—Jim Rohn
In a perfect world, we’d all be judged on the sweetness of our souls. But in our less than perfect world, the woman who looks pretty has a distinct advantage and, usually, the last word.
—Estee Lauder
To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you’re truly wireless.
—Ted Turner
I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
—J. P. Morgan
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
—Alan Greenspan
If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Don’t be threatened by people smarter than you. Compromise anything but your core values. Seek to renew yourself even when you are hitting home runs. And everything matters.
—Howard Schultz
I am convinced that, under the threat of the impoverishment of our people, the machinery of government must be simplified to the utmost.
—Gustav Krupp
To be fair is not enough any more. We must be ferociously fair.
—John Hay Whitney
I have learned to enjoy the ups for what they are, because those are the moments that feel like they go by the quickest.
—Sean “P. Diddy” Combs
I thought, you know, you have so many positives in your life, you have a wonderful family, you have good health, you have had wonderful success in business, why focus on the one negative thing? So I just kind of gave myself a talking to and said look, you know, get this thing done. You can do it.
—Jenny Craig
I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labour, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.
—Colonel Harlan Sanders
Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.
—Debbi Fields
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically guarantee hit records.
—Richard Branson
The difference between style and fashion is quality.
—Giorgio Armani
Whatever you tax, you get less of.
—Alan Greenspan
You walk very slowly and maybe by chance you’ll bump into a genius and he’ll make you rich.
—Ahmet Ertegun
Life is not fair; get used to it.
—Bill Gates
Success in life depends on who your parents were and what circumstances you grew up in.
—Ernest Gallo
Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.
—George Steinbrenner
We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
—Nathan Meyer Rothschild
I figured I wasn’t as smart as some of the other fellows, so I had to work twice as hard.
—Joyce Hall
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
—David Rockefeller
Whenever I see an opportunity and a chance to change something, I go at it and I lay out all the facts to everybody . . . And when I come to this space, I’m going to come with talent, I’m going to come with focus. And I’m going to do the job as competitively as the next guy.
—Robert Johnson
My suggestion is to go to school. It will teach you the framework. It teaches you the game.
—Peter van Stolk
If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.
—Colonel Harlan Sanders
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.
—Charles Munger
The hardest lesson I’ve learned has been to not repeat the dumb mistakes I’ve made over the years, which are too numerous to list.
—Gerald W. Schwartz
Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
—King Abdullah II
I wanted to be the exception to the other kids, but in the right way. We have a lot of suffering in our part of the world, but that suffering is, in a way, a blessing. Obviously, I could not afford to go to school without a scholarship, so that meant I had to excel in order to get one.
—Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
I want to see good financial returns, but also to me there’s the extra psychic return of having my creativity and technological vision bear fruit and change the world in a positive way.
—Jeff Bezos
I see what keeps people young: work!
—Ted Turner
If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.
—Charles Munger
I’ve been in a hurry all my life. I’ve been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.
—Henry Kravis
You talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in the form of government.
—Bernard Baruch
My best and worst boss was the same man—my father. He never—and I mean never—took “I can’t” for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.
—George Steinbrenner
Wall Street is in the business of making money between now and next Tuesday. We’re in the business of building an organization, an institution that we hope will be here 50 years from now. And paying good wages and keeping your people working with you is very good business.
—Jim Sinegal
There is very little knowledge that can’t be obtained through effort. With knowledge you can determine the state of any business or opportunity and find a course to gain an advantage.
—Mark Cuban
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
—James Cash Penny
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.
—Milton Hershey
Commerce is the key driver toward societal change. If everyone that produces the goods the world consumes starts concerning themselves with sustainable, low-impact practices, the world will change.
—Dov Charney
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
—Ronald Reagan
I’ll invest my money in people.
—W. K. Kellogg
[Our] vision for social networks is participatory, visual, based on dialogue. They can be as edgy as they want or as square as they want—it’s up to them.
—Tom Anderson and Chris De Wolfe
I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I’ve always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: The positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.
—Guy Laliberte
Smart is an elusive concept. There’s a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
—Bill Gates
Just about the time you teach a horse to eat hay, the horse dies.
—Jim Sinegal
No sir; the first thing is character, because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.
—J. P. Morgan, when asked by a Congressional investigating committee in 1912 whether bankers issued commercial credit only to people who already had money or property
Better to ask twice than lose your way once.
—Sir James Dyson
I’ve never been surprised about what happened to me. I’ve put in hard work to get to this point. It’s like when you become a lawyer—if you’re bustin’ your ass, you’re not surprised when you get your degree. I came in to win, you know. This is why I stay up late while other people are sleeping; this is why I don’t go out to the Hamptons.
—Sean “P. Diddy” Combs
For instance, if you were in a burning building with a hundred people and there was only one door to the outside, do you think your survival rate would be better if that same building had multiple doors leading out? Of course it would. Life and business are no different in the planning stages. Always assume there will be a fire.
—Todd McFarlane
It’s the way I work. I sleep 12 hours and then work 24 hours. I’ve worked those irregular hours for the past three years. It’s better to stay up day and night to come up with ideas. I usually get inspiration for game designing by working this schedule.
—Satoshi Tajiri
If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.
—Paul Orfalea
The feeling of accomplishment is more real and satisfying than finishing a good meal—or looking at one’s accumulated wealth.
—Jim Henson
I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife, and do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you and leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.
—Hugh Hefner
If people want to change, they will. If they don’t want to, it’s hard to make them do so. The current interest in the environment is a good thing. The best way to make a contribution in fashion is to promote the idea that a fundamental interest in preserving the environment is itself fashionable.
—Giorgio Armani
While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.
—Eli Broad
What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!
—Donald Trump
If the cart is politics and the horse is the economy, then we have to put the horse before the cart and not the other way around.
—Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
—Cornelius Vanderbilt
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
—Russell Simmons
I don’t like to see this type of activity. Eventually, if this bubble bursts, I think that people will be left holding the bag. I don’t want to be around when that happens.
—Bernard Madoff
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up. Have fun. Show enthusiasm—always.
—Sam Walton