"The next time you are in a meeting, ask the quietest person what they think. Invite everyone into the conversation. If you are on a conference call, ask the people on the phone to share their thoughts first." Satya Nadella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 31, 2020
"It is a great advantage for any man to be able to talk or hear, neither ignorantly nor absurdly, upon any subject; for I have known people, who have not said one word, hear ignorantly and absurdly; it has appeared by their inattentive and unmeaning faces." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 30, 2020
"The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table." Warren Buffet — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 29, 2020
"Focus on education is a big strength. I want to see young people focus on creativity and take more risks." Sundar Pichai — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 27, 2020
"The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts." Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 24, 2020
"People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 24, 2020
"Widespread fear is your friend as an investor because it serves up bargain purchases." Warren Buffet — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 23, 2020
"Playing catch-up with the competition can only ever help you make incremental gains. It will never help you create something new." Eric Schmidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 20, 2020
"I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 18, 2020
"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." Nancy Reagan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 17, 2020
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." Warren Buffet — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 15, 2020
"Before you can articulate your own standards of value, you must see yourself as a stranger and then you must get to know yourself." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 13, 2020
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." David Malcolm Storey — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 10, 2020
"It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 10, 2020
"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw." Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 9, 2020
"On the margin of safety, which means, don't try and drive a 9,800-pound truck over a bridge that says it's, you know, capacity: 10,000 pounds. But go down the road a little bit and find one that says, capacity: 15,000 pounds." Warren Buffet — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 7, 2020
"There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere." Eric Schmidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 6, 2020
"I know the voices in my head aren't real, but sometimes their ideas are just awesome!" Heidi Nelson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 4, 2020
"I told them that we spend far too much time at work for it not to have deep meaning." Satya Nadella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 3, 2020
"All of us technology companies need to create some tools that help diminish the volume of fake news. We must try to squeeze this without stepping on freedom of speech and of the press, but we must also help the reader." Tim Cook — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 3, 2020
"You might fail a few times, but that's Ok. You end up doing something worthwhile which you learn a great deal from." Sundar Pichai — English Quotes (@english_quotes) December 1, 2020
"I'm not clumsy! The floor just hates me, the tables and chairs are bullies and the wall gets in my way!" Unknown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 29, 2020
"You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 26, 2020
"Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 26, 2020
"The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best." Eric Schmidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 24, 2020
"I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, 'Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 22, 2020
"A person who is happy is not because everything is right in his life, he is happy because his attitude towards everything in his life is right." Sundar Pichai — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 19, 2020
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." Andy Warhol — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 17, 2020
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Eric Schmidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 16, 2020
"To the degree we're not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves." Peter McWilliams — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 16, 2020
"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 14, 2020
"The scholar, without good breeding, is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable." Lord Chesterfield — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 12, 2020
"For us, the most important thing we can do is raise people up, that is, either by giving the ability to do things they could not otherwise do, allow them to create things they couldn't otherwise create. It's about giving them tools; it is about empowering people." Tim Cook — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 11, 2020
"Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 10, 2020
"Every person, organization, and even society reaches a point at which they owe it to themselves to hit refresh - to reenergize, renew, reframe, and rethink their purpose." Satya Nadella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 9, 2020
"Perhaps happiness is always to be found in the journey uphill, and not in the fleeting sense of satisfaction awaiting at the next peak. Much of happiness is hope, no." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 8, 2020
"Success in investing doesn't correlate with IQ ... what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) November 2, 2020
"After you finish testing the water, you try to double down on something. If you do not have a budget, and at that time you thought about raising a round, it probably takes some time. The opportunity window might be gone." Eric Yuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 26, 2020
"With a hypothetical question you can only get, at best, a hypothetical answer." Father William Seifert — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 25, 2020
"You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 24, 2020
"I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prisons as to innocent, untroubled sleep." Albert Camus — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 21, 2020
"Success can cause people to unlearn the habits that made them successful in the first place." Satya Nadella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 18, 2020
"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them." Henry Ford — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 17, 2020
"Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 15, 2020
"Don't get caught up with what other people are doing. Being a contrarian isn't the key but being a crowd follower isn't either. You need to detach yourself emotionally." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 13, 2020
"And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 12, 2020
"Employees everyday, when they wake up, they don't want to go into the office to work. That's not a company I wanted to build. I want to ensure every employee, many years after they retire when they look back, they can enjoy a sweet memory of happy moments they shared." Eric Yuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 11, 2020
"There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed." Peter Sellers — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 8, 2020
"Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you'd be content to own it in the absence of any market." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 6, 2020
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." Philip Larkin — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 5, 2020
"If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups or downs of life. And only then would you be ready to develop that deeper sense of empathy and compassion for everything..." Satya Nadella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 4, 2020
"I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." George Orson Welles — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 3, 2020
"When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 1, 2020
"If you fulfill your obligations everyday, you don't need to worry about the future." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) October 1, 2020
"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings." William Shakespeare — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 29, 2020
"We make our freemium product work so well. We give most of our features for free. That's why almost every day there are so many user coming to our website. If they like our product, very soon they are going to pay for the subscription." Eric Yuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 27, 2020
"It's very bad for a girl to be too pretty. It stops her developing a sense of humor, or a personality." About Time — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 26, 2020
"The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 24, 2020
"Life without law remains chaotic, effectively intolerable. Life that is pure law becomes sterile, equally unbearable. The domination of chaos or sterility equally breeds murderous resentment and hatred." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 21, 2020
"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had." Eric Schmidt — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 20, 2020
"The years ahead will occasionally deliver major market declines — even panics — that will affect virtually all stocks. No one can tell you when these traumas will occur." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 19, 2020
"We needed to build deeper empathy for our customers and their unarticulated and unmet needs. It was time to hit refresh." Satya Nadella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 17, 2020
"For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 14, 2020
"The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind." Baz Luhrmann — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 12, 2020
"When you were young you thought about who to marry. For sure you wanted to marry the one who really loved you. You do not want to date the one who always asks about how much money you have, how healthy you are, what's your family background? That's not sustainable." Eric Yuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 10, 2020
"Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 7, 2020
"No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) September 3, 2020
"This market is extremely crowded. Without a freemium product, you're going to lose the opportunity to let many users test your products." Eric Yuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 30, 2020
"You must determine where you are going, so that you can bargain for yourself, so that you don’t end up resentful, vengeful and cruel." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 27, 2020
"One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly." Bertolt Brecht — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 26, 2020
"The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation." Leigh Steinberg — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 25, 2020
"After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 24, 2020
"It showed me that you must always have respect for your competitor, but don't be in awe." Satya Nadella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 22, 2020
"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 20, 2020
"If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you." Steve Jobs — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 20, 2020
"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue." Voltaire — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 19, 2020
"The one thing I will tell you is the worst investment you can have is cash. Everybody is talking about cash being king and all that sort of thing. Cash is going to become worth less over time. But good businesses are going to become worth more over time." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 18, 2020
"I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 15, 2020
"I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute." Warren Buffett — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 13, 2020
"In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won't happen." John Steinbeck — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 13, 2020
"In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good." Sunzi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 11, 2020
"Ultimately, we do not want to grow too fast. Our philosophy is to focus on making our existing customers happy. We do not aggressively pursue new prospects. Also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over new prospects." Eric Yuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 9, 2020
"But at my back I always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying near / And yonder all before us lie / Deserts of vast eternity." Andrew Marvell — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 6, 2020
"Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 6, 2020
"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter." Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 5, 2020
"I learned that only through living life's ups and downs can you develop empathy; that in order not to suffer, or at least not to suffer so much, one must become comfortable with impermanence." Satya Nadella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) August 4, 2020
"I discovered Buddha did not set out to found a world religion. He set out to understand why one suffers." Satya Nadella — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 28, 2020
"In ten to twenty years, when people write the history of COVID-19, I want them to write that Zoom did the right thing for the world." Eric Yuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 26, 2020
"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters." Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 25, 2020
"You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are. You should never give up the better that resides within for the security you already have." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 23, 2020
"People don’t buy from you because they understand what you sell — they buy from you because they feel understood." Dan Lok — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 23, 2020
"You love somebody once, you love them forever – only maybe not as much as the next person." Warren Beatty — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 22, 2020
"I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 19, 2020
"Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it." Hartman Rector Jr. — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 16, 2020
"If you need to raise money, you may not get it. However, if you do not need the money, it's very likely you'll get it. I have no idea why this is the case, but I can tell you that's absolutely right." Eric Yuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 14, 2020
"If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 12, 2020
"Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 5, 2020
"My philosophy is to find the investor who will like to invest in me, not just in our business. The business can be up and down... If that happens then guess what? There's a conflict down the road. Very likely, they'll bring in a new CEO that's going to replace you." Eric Yuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 30, 2020
"To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult." Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 29, 2020
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." George Orson Welles — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 28, 2020
"The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 27, 2020
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." Ingrid Bergman — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 25, 2020
"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses." Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 24, 2020
"Dialogue is a pathway to truth. Humility is recognition of personal insufficiency and the willingness to learn thru dialog. To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small. Speech must remain untrammeled so that dialog can take place." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 23, 2020
"Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 20, 2020
"Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 18, 2020
"We always hire people with the potential for growth. Those employees are loyal to your company. They would likely adapt to your business rather than the business adapting to them. They tend to be more humble rather than rest on what they accomplished in the past." Eric Yuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 18, 2020
"I have always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch." Jude Law — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 13, 2020
"We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown — and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 11, 2020
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." Rainer Maria Rilke — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 11, 2020
"If you have been dating a man for four months and you haven't met any of his friends, you are not his girlfriend." Chris Rock — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 10, 2020
"I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them." Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 9, 2020
"So the stock is up, it's good for our investors. If it's down, we keep working hard. I really do not focus on the stock price." Eric Yuan — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 8, 2020
"Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 4, 2020
"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill." Sunzi — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 2, 2020
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." Charles Dickens — English Quotes (@english_quotes) June 1, 2020
"It's all about new beginnings, laying solid foundations and building strong relationships. Everything we want is in front of us!" Unknown — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 31, 2020
"Everyone tells you how they are going to be 'special', but few do the work to get there. Do the work." Mark Cuban — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 30, 2020
"People organize their brains with conversation. If they don't have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves." Jordan Peterson — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 28, 2020
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." Friedrich Nietzsche — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 26, 2020
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." Andy Warhol — English Quotes (@english_quotes) May 24, 2020