Motivational and Inspirational Quotes
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Here's a dollar, go buy yourself a clean shirt.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
Wm.Blake
If you need a helping hand, the best place to look is at the end of your sleeve.
Fear knocked on the door, Faith opened it, and there was no one there!
As long as you have a window, life is exciting.
Although fate presents the circumstances, how you react depends on your character.
Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.
W.C.Fields
We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in darkness.
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
When you help someone up a hill, you're that much nearer the top yourself.
The more I encourage a child to think for himself, the more he will care what I think.
The one thing worse than a quitter is the one who is afraid to begin.
May I never miss a rainbow or a sunset because I am looking down.
Life is a song. Love is the music.
When you've boxed yourself in, there is no sunshine.
Each day slowly shapes our lives, as dripping water shapes the stone.
Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we're trying to decide what to do with it.
Most of today's worries are like puddles: tomorrow they will have evaporated.
Being alive is loving being alive.
Too many folks go through life running from something that isn't after them.
Nobody really finds out what he believes until he begins to instruct his children.
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
If I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant an apple tree.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
The heart must have its time of snow .. to rest in silence, and then to grow.
Be careful how you live; you may be the only Bible some people ever read.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within.
The best gifts are tied with heart strings.
Take care of the minutes, and the hours and years will take care of themselves.
Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.
Robert Lembke
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
To hande yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.
I do not feel any age yet. There is no age to the spirit.
I did not hear to words you said, instead I heard the love.
Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.
C.Dickens
Life is an adventure in forgiving.
Norman Cousins
Happiness is made to be shared.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert L. Stevenson
You don't know where your shadow will fall.
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
Churchill
Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
Minds are like parachutes -- they only function when open.
Some people think they are generous because they give away free advice.
How to levitate: throw yourself to the floor and miss it.
The answer to the question: "What is the meaning of life and the universe?" is: 42.
Believing is a find thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength.
Everybody wants sympathy, but nobody wants anybody feeling sorry for them.
If you love someone you must be strong enough to allow them to be.
Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
Failure is not defeat until you stop trying.
It isn't what happens, it's how you deal with it.
The mind forgets, but the heart always remembers.
Live, Love, Laugh, and be happy.
Habit is like a soft bed, easy to get into but hard to get out of.
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Bacon
I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which have never happened.
MarkTwain
Earth laughs in flowers.
Taking a moment to take it easy is being a friend to yourself.
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
There is nothing wrong with you that some prozak and a polo mallet wouldn't handle.
If you can explain it, you aren't experiencing it.
The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.
Richard Bach
The only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting what you want.
The reason we have time is so everything doesn't happen at once.
Oh, you actors on the stage of life, playing the parts of that which you are not.
The Bible
Zenmaster to Hotdog Vendor: "Make me one with everything"
The designer of the path is the guy standing at the end of it.
Amos Jessup
DARE to get the CIA off drugs.
The fire of adversity will melt you like butter, or temper you like steel. The choice is yours.
Here's a dollar, go buy yourself a clean shirt.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
Wm.Blake
If you need a helping hand, the best place to look is at the end of your sleeve.
Fear knocked on the door, Faith opened it, and there was no one there!
As long as you have a window, life is exciting.
Although fate presents the circumstances, how you react depends on your character.
Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.
W.C.Fields
We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in darkness.
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
When you help someone up a hill, you're that much nearer the top yourself.
The more I encourage a child to think for himself, the more he will care what I think.
The one thing worse than a quitter is the one who is afraid to begin.
May I never miss a rainbow or a sunset because I am looking down.
Life is a song. Love is the music.
When you've boxed yourself in, there is no sunshine.
Each day slowly shapes our lives, as dripping water shapes the stone.
Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we're trying to decide what to do with it.
Most of today's worries are like puddles: tomorrow they will have evaporated.
Being alive is loving being alive.
Too many folks go through life running from something that isn't after them.
Nobody really finds out what he believes until he begins to instruct his children.
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
If I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant an apple tree.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
The heart must have its time of snow .. to rest in silence, and then to grow.
Be careful how you live; you may be the only Bible some people ever read.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within.
The best gifts are tied with heart strings.
Take care of the minutes, and the hours and years will take care of themselves.
Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.
Robert Lembke
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
To hande yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.
I do not feel any age yet. There is no age to the spirit.
I did not hear to words you said, instead I heard the love.
Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.
C.Dickens
Life is an adventure in forgiving.
Norman Cousins
Happiness is made to be shared.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert L. Stevenson
You don't know where your shadow will fall.
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
Churchill
Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
Minds are like parachutes -- they only function when open.
Some people think they are generous because they give away free advice.
How to levitate: throw yourself to the floor and miss it.
The answer to the question: "What is the meaning of life and the universe?" is: 42.
Believing is a find thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength.
Everybody wants sympathy, but nobody wants anybody feeling sorry for them.
If you love someone you must be strong enough to allow them to be.
Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
Failure is not defeat until you stop trying.
It isn't what happens, it's how you deal with it.
The mind forgets, but the heart always remembers.
Live, Love, Laugh, and be happy.
Habit is like a soft bed, easy to get into but hard to get out of.
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Bacon
I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which have never happened.
MarkTwain
Earth laughs in flowers.
Taking a moment to take it easy is being a friend to yourself.
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
There is nothing wrong with you that some prozak and a polo mallet wouldn't handle.
If you can explain it, you aren't experiencing it.
The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.
Richard Bach
The only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting what you want.
The reason we have time is so everything doesn't happen at once.
Oh, you actors on the stage of life, playing the parts of that which you are not.
The Bible
Zenmaster to Hotdog Vendor: "Make me one with everything"
The designer of the path is the guy standing at the end of it.
Amos Jessup
DARE to get the CIA off drugs.
The fire of adversity will melt you like butter, or temper you like steel. The choice is yours.
Smile Quotes
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A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there. ~Loma Chandler
A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~Mary H. Waldrip
Smile - sunshine is good for your teeth. ~Author Unknown
The shortest distance between two people is a smile. ~Author Unknown
If you don't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow. ~Author Unknown
Smiling is my favorite exercise. ~Author Unknown
I have a tickle in my brain. And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
Wear a smile - one size fits all. ~Author Unknown
No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
You'll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth -
Thus preserving the face from congealing.
~Anthony Euwer
Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day. ~Author Unknown
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa
A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile. ~Author Unknown
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ~Charles Reade
A smile is the universal welcome. ~Max Eastman
Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you've been up to. ~Author Unknown
You're never fully dressed without a smile. ~Martin Charnin
A smile can brighten the darkest day. ~Author Unknown
It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown. ~Author Unknown
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane
All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. ~Chris Hart
If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile. ~Author Unknown
Smile - it increases your face value. ~Author Unknown
Peace begins with a smile. ~Mother Teresa
A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it. ~Author Unknown
Most smiles are started by another smile. ~Author Unknown
A smile is something you can't give away; it always comes back to you. ~Author Unknown
A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. ~Author Unknown
It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart. ~Author Unknown
A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there. ~Loma Chandler
A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~Mary H. Waldrip
Smile - sunshine is good for your teeth. ~Author Unknown
The shortest distance between two people is a smile. ~Author Unknown
If you don't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow. ~Author Unknown
Smiling is my favorite exercise. ~Author Unknown
I have a tickle in my brain. And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
Wear a smile - one size fits all. ~Author Unknown
No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
You'll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth -
Thus preserving the face from congealing.
~Anthony Euwer
Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day. ~Author Unknown
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa
A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile. ~Author Unknown
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ~Charles Reade
A smile is the universal welcome. ~Max Eastman
Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you've been up to. ~Author Unknown
You're never fully dressed without a smile. ~Martin Charnin
A smile can brighten the darkest day. ~Author Unknown
It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown. ~Author Unknown
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane
All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. ~Chris Hart
If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile. ~Author Unknown
Smile - it increases your face value. ~Author Unknown
Peace begins with a smile. ~Mother Teresa
A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it. ~Author Unknown
Most smiles are started by another smile. ~Author Unknown
A smile is something you can't give away; it always comes back to you. ~Author Unknown
A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. ~Author Unknown
It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart. ~Author Unknown
Henry Ford Quotes
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford
Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
Henry Ford
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
Henry Ford
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Henry Ford
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
Henry Ford
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
Henry Ford
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Henry Ford
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
Henry Ford
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Henry Ford
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Henry Ford
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Henry Ford
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Henry Ford
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford
Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
Henry Ford
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
Henry Ford
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Henry Ford
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
Henry Ford
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
Henry Ford
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Henry Ford
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.
Henry Ford
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Henry Ford
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Henry Ford
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Henry Ford
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Henry Ford
Steve Jobs Quotes
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Steve Jobs
I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, 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
Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
Steve Jobs
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.
Steve Jobs
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
Steve Jobs
I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Steve Jobs
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
Steve Jobs
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Steve Jobs
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Steve Jobs
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve Jobs
Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
Steve Jobs
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
Steve Jobs
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
Steve Jobs
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs
With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.
Steve Jobs
Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
Steve Jobs
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs
You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
Steve Jobs
You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.
Steve Jobs
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
Steve Jobs
Things don't have to change the world to be important.
Steve Jobs
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Steve Jobs
This revolution, the information revoultion, 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
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve Jobs
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.
Steve Jobs
We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
Steve Jobs
We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.
Steve Jobs
We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.
Steve Jobs
We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
Steve Jobs
We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.
Steve Jobs
We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
Steve Jobs
We're just enthusiastic about what we do.
Steve Jobs
We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.
Steve Jobs
Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.
Steve Jobs
What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.
Steve Jobs
When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
Steve Jobs
When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve Jobs
Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.
Steve Jobs
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve Jobs
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs
So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.
Steve Jobs
So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.
Steve Jobs
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Steve Jobs
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Steve Jobs
Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
Steve Jobs
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs
The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.
Steve Jobs
The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
Steve Jobs
The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.
Steve Jobs
The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.
Steve Jobs
The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
Steve Jobs
The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.
Steve Jobs
The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
Steve Jobs
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
Steve Jobs
The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.
Steve Jobs
The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.
Steve Jobs
The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.
Steve Jobs
Henry Ford Quotes
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A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry Ford
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
Henry Ford
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford
Any colour - so long as it's black.
Henry Ford
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Henry Ford
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Henry Ford
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
Henry Ford
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Henry Ford
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Henry Ford
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Henry Ford
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
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
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry Ford
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
Henry Ford
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford
Any colour - so long as it's black.
Henry Ford
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Henry Ford
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Henry Ford
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
Henry Ford
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Henry Ford
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Henry Ford
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Henry Ford
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
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
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
Stephen Covey Quotes
Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.
Stephen Covey
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Stephen Covey
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Stephen Covey
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen Covey
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen Covey
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Stephen Covey
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Stephen Covey
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Stephen Covey
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Stephen Covey
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Stephen Covey
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen Covey
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen Covey
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Stephen Covey
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Stephen Covey
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Stephen Covey
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey
Warren Buffett Quotes
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it.
Warren Buffett
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren Buffett
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
Warren Buffett
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett
Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Warren Buffett
We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
Warren Buffett
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
Warren Buffett
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren Buffett
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Warren Buffett
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful".
Warren Buffett
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett
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
You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.
Warren Buffett
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
Warren Buffett
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett Quotes
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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren Buffett
Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
Warren Buffett
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
Warren Buffett
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Warren Buffett
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett
I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
Warren Buffett
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Warren Buffett
I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
Warren Buffett
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
Warren Buffett
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
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
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
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Warren Buffett
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren Buffett
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Warren Buffett
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett
Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett
Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
Warren Buffett
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
Warren Buffett
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren Buffett
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Warren Buffett
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett
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