FAMOUS QUOTES OF ALAN MUSK

FAMOUS QUOTES OF ALAN MUSK

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.” ― Elon Musk

“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.” ― Elon Musk

“My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.” ― Elon Musk

“You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.” ― Elon Musk

“You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve” ― Elon Musk

“I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.” ― Elon Musk

“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.” ― Elon Musk

“It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” ― Elon Musk

“I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.” ― Elon Musk

“Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.” ― Elon Musk

“No, I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated” ― Elon Musk

“I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.” ― Elon Musk

“If you need inspiration, don't do it.” ― Elon Musk

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” ― Elon Musk

“The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur.” ― Elon Musk

“The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I’d be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.” ― Elon Musk

“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.” ― Elon Musk

“I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.” ― Elon Musk

GREAT QUOTES OF WARREN BUFFET

GREAT QUOTES OF WARREN BUFFET

“Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.” ― Warren Buffett

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” ― Warren Buffett

“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.” ― Warren Buffett

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.” ― Warren Buffett

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” ― Warren Buffett

“Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful” ― Warren Buffett

“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.” ― Warren Buffett

“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.” ― Warren Buffett

“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing” ― Warren Buffett

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” ― Warren Buffett

GREAT QUOTES OF LARRY PAGE

GREAT QUOTES OF LARRY PAGE

“You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.” ― Larry Page

“Always deliver more than expected.” ― Larry Page

“Good ideas are always crazy until they're not” ― Larry Page

“That's why I find Elon to be an inspiring example. He said, 'Well, what should I really do in this world? Solve cars, global warming, and make humans multi-planetary.' I mean those are pretty compelling goals, and now he has businesses to do that.” ― Larry Page, How Google Works

“How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?” ― Larry Page

“My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.” ― Larry Page

“Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.” ― Larry Page

GREAT QUOTES OF SAM WALTON

GREAT QUOTES OF SAM WALTON

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish.” ― Sam Walton

“Sam Walton: I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.” ― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who’s going to have a great idea.” ― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“High expectations are the key to everything.” ― Sam Walton

“I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.” ― Sam Walton

“What we guard against around here is people saying, ‘Let’s think about it.’ We make a decision. Then we act on it.” ― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” ― Sam Walton

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” ― Sam Walton

“Every time Wal-Mart spends one dollar foolishly, it comes right out of our customers’ pockets. Every time we save them a dollar, that puts us one more step ahead of the competition—which is where we always plan to be.” ― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“I don’t think any other retail company in the world could do what I’m going to propose to you. It’s simple. It won’t cost us anything. And I believe it would just work magic, absolute magic on our customers, and our sales would escalate, and I think we’d just shoot past our Kmart friends in a year or two and probably Sears as well. I want you to take a pledge with me. I want you to promise that whenever you come within ten feet of a customer, you will look him in the eye, greet him, and ask him if you can help him. Now I know some of you are just naturally shy, and maybe don’t want to bother folks. But if you’ll go along with me on this, it would, I’m sure, help you become a leader. It would help your personality develop, you would become more outgoing, and in time you might become manager of that store, you might become a department manager, you might become a district manager, or whatever you choose to be in the company. It will do wonders for you. I guarantee it. Now, I want you to raise your right hand—and remember what we say at Wal-Mart, that a promise we make is a promise we keep—and I want you to repeat after me: From this day forward, I solemnly promise and declare that every time a customer comes within ten feet of me, I will smile, look him in the eye, and greet him. So help me Sam.” ― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“He proved that people can be motivated. The mountain is there, but somebody else has already climbed it.” ― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

GREAT QUOTES OF ROCKFELLER

GREAT QUOTES OF ROCKFELLER

“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” ― John D. Rockefeller

“I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure, whether in government, business or personal affairs.

I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.

I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond, that character - not wealth or power or position - is of supreme worth.

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.

I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individual's highest fulfillment, greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with His will.

I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.” ― John D. Rockefeller

“I do not think 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

“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship” ― John D. Rockefeller

GREAT QUOTES OF ANDREW CARNEGIE

GREAT QUOTES OF ANDREW CARNEGIE

“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.” ― Andrew Carnegie

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” ― Andrew Carnegie

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” ― Andrew Carnegie

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”

― Andrew Carnegie

“A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.” ― Andrew Carnegie

“No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.” ― Andrew Carnegie

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” ― Andrew Carnegie

“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.” ― Andrew Carnegie

“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.” ― Andrew Carnegie

“It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.” ― Andrew Carnegie

“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.” ― Andrew Carnegie

GREAT QUOTES OF BILL GATES

GREAT QUOTES OF BILL GATES

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” ― Bill Gates

“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.” ― Bill Gates

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” ― Bill Gates

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” ― Bill Gates

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.” ― Bill Gates

“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.” ― Bill Gates

“I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.” ― Bill Gates

“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.” ― 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...” ― Bill Gates

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” ― Bill Gates

“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.” ― Bill Gates, The Road Ahead

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” ― Bill Gates

GREAT QUOTES OF STEVE JOBS

GREAT QUOTES OF STEVE JOBS

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice." [Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]” ― Steve Jobs

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ― Steve Jobs

“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.” ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.” ― Steve Jobs

“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently. (Steve Jobs)” ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.” ― Steve Jobs

“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?” ― Steve Jobs

“If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.” ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.” ― Steve Jobs

“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.” ― Steve Jobs

GREAT QUOTES OF RICHARD BRANSON | GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS BUSINESSMEN

GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS BUSINESSMEN

GREAT QUOTES OF RICHARD BRANSON

“If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!” ― Richard Branson

“Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no” ― Richard Branson

“Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.” ― Richard Branson, Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life

“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.” ― Richard Branson

“The brave may not live forever – But the cautious do not live at all” ― Richard Branson, Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School

“I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” ― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” ― Richard Branson

“Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!” ― Richard Branson, Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

“As soon as something stops being fun, I think it’s time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live.” ― Richard Branson, Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life

“Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming.” ― Richard Branson

“There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.” ― Richard Branson