“To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!”
“Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
“If there is disturbance in the camp, the general s authority is weak. ”
“If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.”
“If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. ”
“In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents. ”
“When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more.”
“We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world--and a good part of the nonindustrialized world as well--has better cell phone service than the United States. Broadband is faster and cheaper across the industrial world, from Canada to France to Japan, and the United States now stands sixteenth in the world in broadband penetration per capita. Americans are constantly told by their politicians that the only thing we have to learn from other countries health care systems is to be thankful for ours. Most Americans ignore the fact that a third of the country s public schools are totally dysfunctional (because their children go to the other two-thirds). The American litigation system is now routinely referred to as a huge cost to doing business, but no one dares propose any reform of it. Our mortgage deduction for housing costs a staggering $80 billion a year, and we are told it is crucial to support home ownership, except that Margaret Thatcher eliminated it in Britain, and yet that country has the same rate of home ownership as the United States. We rarely look around and notice other options and alternatives, convinced that we re number one.”
“But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it s inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can t really work for other people.”
“sejak bekerja di majalah, kami mengerti Valentine adalah momen dagang....Korbannya tentu remaja-remaja naif, orang-orang melankolis, yang tidak sadar uangnya dirampok siang-siang.”
“Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.”
“I don t know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.”
“Every successful business (1) creates or provides something of value that (2) other people want or need (3) at a price they re willing to pay, in a way that (4) satisfies the purchaser s needs and expectations and (5) provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation.”
“In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.”
“Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.”
“I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.”
“Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage.”