Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Businessmen - Page 15

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.

If you're a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.

You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that people don't necessarily understand at first. In our case, we knew the users we had in mind for this product. So in the early days, we looked at our customers, really just testers at that point, and we paid extra attention to the teams we knew should be using Slack successfully.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Renewable energy is a clear winner when it comes to boosting the economy and creating jobs.

I believe people change. I think that they can learn from mistakes.

Electronic music is the first genre to realize how to use the music for marketing something else, which is playing festivals and club nights where they really make money.

I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.

Leadership is a trait; it's not a skill.

We want to be able to do business in China. I know a lot of American businesses and farmers want to as well.

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

Readiness is an oft-mentioned - but frequently ignored - necessity.

Blue Shift' is a game that I'm very proud of.

At different points, I applied to graduate school. I got into medical school. I thought about being a writer. I thought about being an investment banker. I just didn't know what I wanted to do with myself. I think the thing that best suits me about being a C.E.O. is that you get to exercise many different talents and wear many different hats.

The problem is not actual number of calories we are producing - we have food waste issues. The problem is industrial food.

I taught myself HTML.

I think 'Settlers of Catan' is such a well-designed board game - it's the board game of entrepreneurship - that I made a knockoff called 'Startups of Silicon Valley.' It's literally - it's the same rules but just a different skin set to it.

Calling 'Instagram' a photo-sharing app is like calling a newspaper a letter-sharing book, or a Mozart grand era symphony a series of notes. 'Instagram' is less about the medium and more about the network.

Every weekend I would take a train to Delhi and sneak into startup events. I really enjoyed meeting entrepreneurs who were solving big problems. They were way smarter than me. I knew this is where I had to be.

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a better environment for start-ups to grow.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.

The future is limitless.

A healthy diet is a solution to many of our health-care problems. It's the most important solution.

I am completely Socratic.

Every opportunity to win is sacred. It's sacred to us inside the organization, and it should be sacred to the fans as well. They deserve our best efforts to do what we can to improve the club and put the club in position to succeed in any given season.

Just don't spend your money, and you're well on your way to becoming a millionaire.

We're all human, and part of being human is showing respect and support for others' life choices.

Wrestling died. It had a comeback in the early '90s just through word of mouth with Brian Dixon's shows.

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

I left my home, and it was the most beautiful country in the world in my eyes, and I was always happy in the summertime to go back. And then suddenly, the civil war starts, and you just worry first about your family and friends, and then an entire nation.

We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Of course training is very important, but resting is just as important. You have to get your recuperation, and I think all players make that mistake where they train hard but they don't rest enough, and even our school boy players, we tell them to get a lot of rest.

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

I was asked by a journalist to sum up the story in a minute, and I was like, 'No.' It goes from Trump to Brexit to Russian espionage to military operations in Afghanistan to hacking the president of Nigeria. Where do you even begin?

Some politicians are in so long they completely lose touch with reality.

Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.

America works best when we work together to expand the circle of inclusion.

Sometimes the best ideas will come in the least inspiring places.

The mainstream media choose to flaunt story lines that make white America appear guilty of continued institutional racism, while black racism against whites is ignored as an acceptable disposition given our nation's history.

Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

I won't talk of bad luck. I don't believe in it.

All of your stakeholders have to have the right seat at the table, and they all have to be successful. It's hard to do, but you have to keep your eye on developing a meaningful relationship where it is beneficial for them. Then you work backwards from there.

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

There are some phone calls where it's not even worth wasting the electrons on.

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

From a development standpoint, at Blizzard Entertainment one of our values of course is commitment to quality.

I don't want anyone who is Muslim not to be able to dream that they can be President of the United States, and I don't want any of my friends, regardless of their orientation, thinking they are less of a citizen.