My Favorite Quotes
Nothing fancy here. Just a laundry list of my fav quotes. Enjoy.
“Two things about Sam Walton distinguish him from almost everyone else I know. First he gets up everyday bound and determined to improve something. Second, he is less afraid of being wrong than anyone I’ve ever known. And once he sees he’s wrong, he just shakes it off and heads in another direction.” -David Glass, CEO Walmart
“Do anything you’re big enough to do.” -Sam Walton
"I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job" -Darwin Smith, CEO Kimberley-Clark
“We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make movies” -Walt Disney
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win” -Gandhi
“There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.” -Morpheus
“I failed my way to success.” -Thomas Edison
“Our goal at Zappos is for our employees to think of their work not as a job or career, but as a calling.” -Tony Hsieh CEO
“If you have more than 3 priorities then you don't have any.” -Jim Collins
“No matter what your past has been, you have a spotless future.” -unknown
“Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.” -George Bernard Shaw
“Include people in your problems, not just your solutions.” -Andrew Stanton. Pixar Director
“It's amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” -H S Truman
“If something isn’t keeping you awake at night, you’re not making enough of a difference in the world.” -Paul de Jong
“Tim [Cook] is a calm, thoughtful guy. He studies things and thinks about them, makes a decision, and moves on.” -Bill Campbell
“The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.” -Albert Einstein
“To go fast, go alone. To go far, go together” -Chinese Proverb
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it” -Alan Kay. Chief Scientist at Apple
“This was a revelation to me: The good stuff was hiding the bad stuff… When downsides coexist with upsides, as they often do, people are reluctant to explore what’s bugging them, for fear of being labeled complainers” -Ed Catmull. Creativity Inc.
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.“ -Henry Ford
“Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” -Zig Ziglar
“The more successful you become, the less you can justify low quality. The more focused you must become, the more consistently your daily behaviors must be high quality — and increasingly higher quality.” -Ben Hardy
”I’d rather be positive and wrong, than pessimistic and right’ -Elon Musk
“When what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you’ve had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.” -Jim Collins
“Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.” - Anne Sweeney, Co-Chair of Disney
“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.” -Calvin Coolidge
“A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.” -Jim Rohn
"He whose life has a why can bear almost any how” -Friedrich Nietzsche