“The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you.” Marc Andreessen · Interviews
“The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.” Peter Thiel · Zero to One, 2014
“Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.” Naval Ravikant · How to Get Rich tweet thread, 2018
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” Bill Gates · Widely attributed
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.” Bill Gates · The Road Ahead, 1995
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” Steve Jobs · Think Different campaign, 1997
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.” Steve Jobs · Stanford Commencement, June 2005
“If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day.” Elon Musk · Interviews
“All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there.” Charlie Munger · Berkshire Hathaway meetings
“Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength.” Sara Blakely · Interviews
“Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset.” Sara Blakely · Interviews
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” Mark Zuckerberg · Y Combinator interview, 2011
“If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.” Larry Page · Interviews
“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.” Peter Drucker · Widely attributed
“It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.” Steve Jobs
“What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.” Steve Jobs
“My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.” Steve Jobs
“We believe it's the biggest advance in animation since Walt Disney started it all with the release of Snow White 50 years ago.” Steve Jobs
“I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.” Steve Jobs
“Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.” Steve Jobs
“I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.” Bill Gates
“I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.” Bill Gates
“There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.” Bill Gates
“In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.” Bill Gates
“It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.” Bill Gates
“Trustworthy Computing has four pillars: reliability, security, privacy and business integrity.” Bill Gates
“I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.” Bill Gates
“Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.” Bill Gates
“I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.” Bill Gates
“If you wanted to be close to the cutting edge, particularly in technology, you came to North America.” Elon Musk
“There’s a graveyard of prior attempts, a big graveyard. There’s probably some freshly dug graves just waiting to be filled. Our aspiration is to avoid that destination.” Elon Musk
“I think we’ve got the risks pretty well characterized. I think we are at least avoiding the mistakes that have been made in the past.” Elon Musk
“The long term ultimate objective – the holy grail – is we would like to help make life multi-planetary.” Elon Musk
“So even if a fire develops, it can't really attack the particularly vulnerable locations like the pneumatic system or the avionics or the engine bay. We want to be in the situation that even if a fire develops, the rocket just keeps going.” Elon Musk
“Connectivity just can’t be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation. And that’s why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.” Mark Zuckerberg
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” Warren Buffett
“I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.” Warren Buffett
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.” Warren Buffett
“You couldn't advance in a finance department in this country unless you taught that the world was flat.” Warren Buffett
“The 400 of us pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you're in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.” Warren Buffett
“You want to be greedy when others are fearful. You want to be fearful when others are greedy. It's that simple. ... They're pretty fearful. In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.” Warren Buffett
“I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there's a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.” Warren Buffett
“Can you really explain to a fish what it's like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.” Warren Buffett
“We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.” Warren Buffett
“... I regard it as a cinch that a great nation will in due time be Rome. ... Where is Rome? Where is Britain in its heyday? They all pass and so our turn is bound to come some day.” Charlie Munger
“What I would say is the single most important thing, if you want to avoid all the stupid errors, is knowing where you're competent and where you aren't. And that's very hard to do because the human mind naturally tries to make you think you're way smarter than you are.” Charlie Munger
“No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.” Peter Drucker
“Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will... be taken over by a Central government...” Peter Drucker
“[T]he basic decisions are... about aims... what is desirable... the greater good or the lesser evil in the case of conflicting aims... what sacrifice we are willing to make for a certain achievement, and at what point the sacrifice outweighs the advantages.” Peter Drucker
“It is not enough for the economist in a free society to be a good economic craftsman; he must also think and act as a citizen.” Peter Drucker
“[W]e have been forced to put a major emphasis on the acquisition of technical knowledge.” Peter Drucker
“The large industrial enterprise is... the representative institution of an industrial society. It determines the individual's view of his society.” Peter Drucker
“Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.” Peter Drucker
“The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.” Peter Drucker
“Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.” Peter Drucker
“Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.” Peter Drucker
“International financiers are behind all war. They are what is called the international Jew: German-Jews, French-Jews, English-Jews, American-Jews ... the Jew is the threat.” Henry Ford
“The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to his time. They fit it now.” Henry Ford
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.” Henry Ford
“The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.” Henry Ford
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.” Henry Ford
“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” Henry Ford
“It is perhaps well enough that the people of the Nation do not know or understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Henry Ford
“Any man who thinks he is going to be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him should take a close look at the American Indian.” Henry Ford
“If there is any certainty as to what a businessman is, he is assuredly the things Ford was not.” Henry Ford
“Every year Jews make more and more the controlling masters of the producers in a nation of one hundred and twenty millions; only a single great man, Ford, to their fury still maintains full independence.” Henry Ford
“It will take a hundred years to tell whether he helped us or hurt us, but he certainly didn't leave us where he found us.” Henry Ford
“X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.” Thomas Edison
“My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. What a soul may be is beyond my understanding.” Thomas Edison
“So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake … Religion is all bunk.” Thomas Edison
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas Edison
“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.” Thomas Edison
“I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.” Thomas Edison
“To my simple mind it is not obvious that a successful electrician is an authority on the immortal soul, any more than that a successful military strategist has an ear for music, or an admirable French cook a grasp of the higher mathematics.” Thomas Edison
“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me...''' You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” Walt Disney
“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.” Walt Disney
“All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.” Walt Disney
“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.” Walt Disney
“I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.” Walt Disney
“Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor.''' I mean, yes there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.” Walt Disney
“I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place — a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.” Walt Disney
“I think other companies need to stand on their own two feet, and the weak ones need to go to the wall.” Richard Branson
“I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn’t change a thing about my life.” Richard Branson
“To be associated with industry no longer carries the stigma of profiteering, exploitation and of being uncaring as it did when I was at school.” Richard Branson
“This man has so little understanding of tariffs. He thinks that China pays for them. This is the same guy who also thought that Mexico would pay for the wall,” Mark Cuban
“Reigniting the revolution means I want us to notice all of this and find ways to encourage more women to step up and more companies to recognize what women bring to the table.” Sheryl Sandberg
“Women face huge institutional barriers. But we also face barriers that exist within ourselves, sometimes as the result of our socialization.” Sheryl Sandberg
“I am not blaming women; I’m helping them see the power they’ve got and encouraging them to use it.” Sheryl Sandberg
“We call our daughters—but not our sons—bossy. We overestimate our sons’ crawling abilities and underestimate our daughters’.” Sheryl Sandberg
“At the same time, the world still isn’t very welcoming or respectful toward full-time at-home dads.” Sheryl Sandberg
“No one talks about gender in the workplace, because if you say the words "I am a woman," the other person is likely to hear "I want special treatment" or "I’m going to sue you.” Sheryl Sandberg
“But the struggles I write about are the ones all women face: the struggle to believe in yourself, to not feel guilty, to get enough sleep, to believe that you can be both a good professional and a good parent.” Sheryl Sandberg
“I’m not recommending that if you want to get to the top, you should break out the tissues. But we’re human, and it’s important to broaden the kinds of behaviors that are acceptable at work.” Sheryl Sandberg
“The media rarely depict working women with children as happy and adjusted and comfortable with themselves.” Sheryl Sandberg
“There’s this assumption that women can’t and men can. My goal is to change that conversation.” Sheryl Sandberg
“It’s the single most important career decision a woman makes: Is she going to have a life partner, and is that partner going to support her career? And by "support," I mean getting up in the middle of the night half the time to change diapers.” Sheryl Sandberg
“Next time you go to a party, watch what happens when a baby starts crying. Watch the parents and see who gets up.” Sheryl Sandberg
“If we start acknowledging what the real issues are, we can solve them. It’s not that hard.” Sheryl Sandberg
“I think women in leadership suffer from stereotyping, and when people expect a stereotype and are reminded of a stereotype, that actually makes the stereotype stronger.” Sheryl Sandberg
“I think we need to expect and encourage our girls and women to lead and contribute.” Sheryl Sandberg
“Gay marriage can’t be a partisan issue because as long as there are partisan issues or cultural issues in this country, you’ll have trench warfare like on the western front in World War I. You’ll have lots of carnage and no progress.” Peter Thiel
“It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.” Peter Thiel
“[The media] never takes [Trump] seriously, but it always takes him literally. I think a lot of the voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously, but not literally.” Peter Thiel
“Confirm [the age of Apple is over]. We know what a smartphone looks like and does. It's not the fault of Tim Cook, but it's not an area where there will be any more innovation.” Peter Thiel
“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 Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges -- the single best book I have found on who we are and how we got here.” Marc Andreessen
“At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't.” Paul Graham
“If you try to solve a hard problem, the question is not whether you will use a powerful enough language, but whether you will (a) use a powerful language, (b) write a de facto interpreter for one, or (c) yourself become a human compiler for one.” Paul Graham
“A programming language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of.” Paul Graham
“The most important thing is to be able to think what you want, not to say what you want.” Paul Graham
“At any given time, there are only about ten or twenty places where hackers most want to work, and if you aren't one of them, you won't just have fewer great hackers, you'll have zero.” Paul Graham
“Nerds serve two masters. They want to be popular, certainly, but they want even more to be smart. And popularity is not something you can do in your spare time, not in the fiercely competitive environment of an American secondary school.” Paul Graham
“While the nerds were being trained to get the right answers, the popular kids were being trained to please.” Paul Graham
“If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies.” Paul Graham
“The other thing that's different about the real world [compared to high school] is that it's much larger. In a large enough pool, even the smallest minorities can achieve a critical mass if they clump together.” Paul Graham
“Nerds aren't losers. They're just playing a different game, and a game much closer to the one played in the real world.” Paul Graham
“It's not so important what you [high school students] work on, so long as you're not wasting your time. Work on things that interest you and increase your options, and worry later about which you'll take.” Paul Graham
“The world changes fast, and the rate at which it changes is itself speeding up. In such a world it's not a good idea to have fixed plans.” Paul Graham
“I think the way to "solve" the problem of procrastination is to let delight pull you instead of making a to-do list push you.” Paul Graham
“The first type of judgement is the type where judging you is the end goal... But in fact there is a second much larger class of judgements where judging you is only a means to something else.” Paul Graham
“Think for yourself to decide 1) what you want, 2) what is true, and 3) what you should do to achieve #1 in light of #2 ... and do that with humility and open-mindedness so that you can consider the best thinking available to you.” Ray Dalio
“Make believability-weighted decisions. ...Operate by principles ... that are so clearly laid out that their principles can be easily assessed and you and others can see if you walk the talk.” Ray Dalio
“Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.” Jack Welch
“Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.” Jack Welch
“Clearly for most Americans, everything is getting worse and worse. The only beneficiaries are the Chainsaw Dunlaps and Neutron Jacks.” Jack Welch
“I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.” Sam Walton
““I’m a really bad test taker and I ended up bombing the LSATs twice and I was not able to get into a law school,” she says.” Sara Blakely
“She did the next best thing, she says. She drove to Disney World in Florida and asked if she could play the role of Goofy.” Sara Blakely
“The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.” Larry Page
“If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have [a question] answered for you before you ask it.” Larry Page
“Page has long been reclusive, a computer scientist who pondered technical problems away from the public eye, preferring to chase moonshots over magazine covers.” Larry Page
“re gmail, great user experience has helped other email systems (others have increased storage etc). there are areas that have been overlooked in industry, much as search was overlooked in the 90's. thinks they have technology, distribution infrastructure to address those things.” Sergey Brin
“The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.” Seth Godin
“I will continue to use my voice. I believed from the beginning that [the lawsuit] was an attempt to muzzle my voice, and I come from a people who have struggled and died in order to have a voice in this country. And I refused to be muzzled.” Oprah Winfrey
“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.” Oprah Winfrey
“Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.” Oprah Winfrey
“I would say, we can't allow ourselves to be frightened into not living our lives, and I think that we have to keep going and we have to keep going with the faith that thing will get better … And things will get better when we make them better.” Oprah Winfrey
“I had a lot of wealthy men calling, telling me that they would run my campaign and raise $1 billion for me. I am actually humbled by the fact that people think that I could be a leader of the free world, but it's just not in my spirit. . . it's not in my DNA” Oprah Winfrey
“Nourish what makes you feel confident, connected, contented. Opportunity will rise to meet you.” Oprah Winfrey
“[At the beginning of the midterm campaigns,] I said it was up to the citizens of Pennsylvania, but I will tell you all this — if I lived in Pennsylvania, I would've already cast my vote for John Fetterman, for many reasons” Oprah Winfrey
“Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.” Stephen Covey
“...when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.” Stephen Covey
“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” Stephen Covey
“Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.” Stephen Covey
“Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.” Stephen Covey
“\textstyle\frac{3}{4} of world problems and bewilderment would be lost if we understood our opponents.” Stephen Covey
“There will be real happiness, peace of mind and balance, when living by heart and right-mindedly.” Stephen Covey
“What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.” Malcolm Gladwell
“The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist . He basically gave me my view of the world.” Malcolm Gladwell
“You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment and make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools - by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“[T]he epic poet did not judge heroes by the result... their fate depended on totally external forces... Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“[T]he mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward the sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“My models showed that ultimately almost nobody really survived; bears dropped like flies in the rally and bulls ended up being slaughtered... But there was one exception... option buyers... could buy the insurance against blowup...” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“A... vicious effect of... is that those that are good at predicting the past... think of themselves as good at predicting the future... [W]e live in a world where important events are not predictable...” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Veteran trader Marty O'Connell calls this the firehouse effect. ...[F]iremen ...who talk to each other for too long come to agree on many things that an outside, impartial observer would find ludicrous...” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“[T]hey share the traits of the acute successful randomness fool who, in addition, operates in the most random of environments. ...[T]heir bosses and employers shared the same trait. They, too, are permanently out of the market.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.” Daniel Kahneman
“Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.” Daniel Kahneman
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.” Daniel Kahneman
“It is the of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” Daniel Kahneman
“There is a deep gap between our thinking about statistics and our thinking about individual cases.” Daniel Kahneman
“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.” Daniel Kahneman
“He's taking an inside view. He should forget about his own case and look for what happened in other cases.” Daniel Kahneman
“A rare event will be overweighted if it specifically attracts attention. [...] And when there is no overweighting, there will be neglect.” Daniel Kahneman
“The grandfather of concepts for predicting the probable course of industry evolution is the familiar .” Michael Porter
“Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.” Andrew Carnegie
““We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.”” John D. Rockefeller
“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
“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit — a reputation, character.” John D. Rockefeller
“I was early taught to work as well as play,My life has been one long, happy holiday;Full of work and full of play —I dropped the worry on the way —And God was good to me every day.” John D. Rockefeller
“I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.” John D. Rockefeller
“The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.” John D. Rockefeller
“Competition was natural enough at one time, but do you think you are competing today? Many of you think you are. Against whom? Against Rockefeller? About as I would if I had a wheelbarrow and competed with the Santa Fe from here to Kansas City.” John D. Rockefeller
“I despise the rule of Rockefeller and Morgan as much as that of King or Kaiser, and am as outraged by Ludlow and Calumet as by Belgium.” John D. Rockefeller
“I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.” Benjamin Franklin
“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” Benjamin Franklin
“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.” Benjamin Franklin
“If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.” Benjamin Franklin
“But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; ... unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit ...; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.” Benjamin Franklin
“The first man put at the helm will be a good one. No body knows what sort may come afterwards. The Executive will be always increasing here, as elsewhere, till it ends in a Monarchy.” Benjamin Franklin
“God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.” Benjamin Franklin
“Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.” Benjamin Franklin
“The Way to ſee by Faith is to ſhut the Eye of Reaſon: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.” Benjamin Franklin
“I think opinions should be judged of by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.” Benjamin Franklin
“Every Body cries, a Union is absolutely necessary, but when they come to the Manner and Form of the Union, their weak Noddles are perfectly distracted.” Benjamin Franklin
“Idleness and Pride Tax with a heavier Hand than Kings and Parliaments; If we can get rid of the former we may easily bear the Latter.” Benjamin Franklin
“Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.” Benjamin Franklin
“Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.” Dale Carnegie
“You can make more friends in two months by being interested in them, than in two years by making them interested in you.” Dale Carnegie
“If out of reading this book you get just one thing—an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle—if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.” Dale Carnegie
“The average person is more interested in their own name than in all the other names in the world put together.” Dale Carnegie
“By far the most vital lesson I have ever learned is the importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are. Our thoughts make us what we are.” Dale Carnegie
“Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.” Dale Carnegie
“When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.” Dale Carnegie
“Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. p. 54” Napoleon Hill
“The "Master Mind" may be defined as: "Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.” Napoleon Hill
“Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.” Napoleon Hill
“It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.” Steve Jobs
“What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.” Steve Jobs
“My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.” Steve Jobs
“We believe it's the biggest advance in animation since Walt Disney started it all with the release of Snow White 50 years ago.” Steve Jobs
“I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.” Steve Jobs
“Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.” Steve Jobs
“I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.” Bill Gates
“I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.” Bill Gates
“There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.” Bill Gates
“In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.” Bill Gates
“It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.” Bill Gates