Jobs had latched onto what he believed was a key management lesson from his Macintosh experience: You have to be ruthless if you want to build a team of A players. “It’s too easy, as a team grows, to put up with a few B players, and they then attract a few more B players, and soon you will even have some C players,” he recalled. “The Macintosh experience taught me that A players like to work only with other A players, which means you can’t indulge B players.
— Steve Jobs Biography
If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.
— Larry Page
You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
— Warren Buffett
It always seems impossible until its done.
— Nelson Mandela
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.
— James Cameron
If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that’s not going to promote healthiness.
— Larry Page
The knowledge of all things is possible.
― Leonardo da Vinci
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
— Confucius
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
—Maimonides
There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
― Leonardo da Vinci
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.
— Thomas Gray
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
— Nelson Mandela
Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
— Larry Page
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
— Roy Amara
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
— Albert Einstein
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
— Albert Einstein
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
— Warren Buffett
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
— Upton Sinclair
If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.
— J. Paul Getty
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
— Bill Gates
The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.
— Jessica Hische
An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.
— Leonardo da Vinci
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
— Aristotle Onassis
Always carry cash.
— GSEG
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
— Steve Jobs
One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves.
— L. Tom Perry
The truth is like poetry— And most people fucking hate poetry.”
— Overheard in a Washington D.C. bar by Michael Lewis
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
— Winston Churchill
Everyone thinks that I just go out there and have fun, party and be a rock star,
but the truth of the matter is what I do, it is work, it’s a crazy amount of work,
I absolutely love it, I’ll keep doing it ’til the day I die.
— Devin Graham [filmmaker]
I’m convinced that to give away a dollar effectively is harder than to make a dollar.
— Steve Jobs
Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you who you’ll turn out to be.
— Warren Buffett
A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
— Steve Jobs
I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
— Bill Gates
The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we’re a long, long ways from that.
— Larry Page
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
— Jimmy Dean
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana
Never believe everything you see on the internet.
— Abraham Lincoln
Gold is money. Everything else is credit.
— J.P. Morgan
If riding the bus doesn’t incentivize you to improve your station in life, nothing will.
— GSEG
This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now.
— Steve Jobs
If you need advice, ask for money. If you need money, ask for advice.
— Tim Ferriss
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
— Isaac Newton
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
— Albert Einstein
The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
— Mark Twain
#1: You’ll learn. Silence is the best way of saying ‘fuck you’.
— GSEG
I love quotes…but, in the end, knowledge has to be converted to action or it’s worthless.
— Tony Robbins
In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
— Kenneth Rogoff
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
— Bill Gates
Tim Ferriss usually has some very inspiring quotes each week in his 5 bullet Friday email newsletter that I enjoy a lot.
Gordon Schücker 