Quality Quotes
Makes you think.
“In God we trust, all others bring data.” – W. Edwards Deming
“On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on the other days, upon other fields, will bear the fruit of victory.” – General Douglas MacArthur
“If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand.” – Howard Schultz
“I would rather entertain and hope people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” – Walt Disney
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character…that is the goal of education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
“Educational excellence is critical to the societal contract supporting our democracy and is inextricably tied to the success or failure of our nation.” –Condoleezza Rice
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
“Conformity is the jailer of the freedom and enemy of growth.” – John Kennedy
”There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder." – Ronald Reagan
“The race might not always go to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.” – Damon Runyon
“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.” – Alan Perlis
“It’s not the light we need but the fire. It’s not the gentle shower but the thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake.” – Fredrick Douglas
“I am telling you, the world’s trillionaires are going to come from somebody who masters AI and all its derivatives and applies it in ways we never thought of.” – Mark Cuban
“The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy.” – Thomas J. Watson
“Academics used to be the upward mobility of the middle class in America. We’ve now become the caste system as we’ve become drunk on exclusivity, failing to realize we’re public servants, not luxury brands.” – Scott Galloway
“Trust, but verify.” – Ronald Reagan
“Data is the new oil.” – Clive Humby
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Generative AI won’t replace executives. But executives who use generative AI will replace executives who don’t.” – Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
“Live as if you were going to die tomorrow, learn as if you are going to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“First mover advantage doesn’t go to the company that starts up…it goes to the company that scales up.” – Reid Hoffman
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant, I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” – Mark Twain
“There are only two types of companies in the World. Those who are great at AI and everybody else. If you don’t know AI you are going to fail. Period.” – Mark Cuban
“In the 21st Century, the Robot will take place which slave labor occurred in ancient civilization.” – Nikola Tesla
“Be a fountain, not a drain.” – Rex Hudler
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.” – Lou Holtz
“Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.” – Henry Ford
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
“You think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok
“I can’t change the direction of the wind but I can adjust my sails so I always get to my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can’t see a shadow.” – Helen Keller
“I don’t set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.” ― Dick Clark
"It's better to be a pirate than join the Navy." – Steve Jobs
"A camel is a horse designed by a committee." - Anonymous
"When we have facts, we will use facts. When we have opinions, we will use mine." – Bill Campbell
"In the short term, the market is a voting machine. In the long term, it's a weighing machine." – Ben Graham
"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians." – Warren Buffett
"Ability is nothing without opportunity." – Napoleon Bonaparte
”You can’t use an old map to explore a new world.” – Albert Einstein
“You can have everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar
“Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” – Richard Branson
“Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.” - Jonathan Haidt
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy
“The speed of business is the speed of trust.” – Stephen Covey
“I’m always amazed how these overnight successes take a hell of a long time.” – Steve Jobs
“Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas." - Paula Poundstone
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford
“Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.” – Reid Hoffman
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." – Scottish Proverb
“I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.” – Simon Sinek
“For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.” – Rudyard Kipling
“For those that don’t know history…everything is unprecedented.” – Condoleezza Rice
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“You get better or you get worse. You don’t stay the same.” – Lou Holtz
“Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.” – Sun Tzu
“Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.” – Bill Clinton