Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Liam Cunningham: Superheroes
“The superheroes have taken over all the screens in the world. And good luck to them: they’re making a lot of money for a lot of people. But the studios are going to become victims of their own success. People are going to get bored with that stuff.” —Liam Cunningham.
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June Whitfield: Worst thing about age
“The worst thing about age is not quite being able to do what you once did. The best thing is learning to accept what you’ve got and what you are.” —June Whitfield.
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John D Rockefeller: Founded on business
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” —John D. Rockefeller.
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Bob Burg: Successful networkers I know
“The successful networkers I know, the ones receiving tons of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves, continually put the other person’s needs ahead of their own.” —Bob Burg.
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Bob Burg: Knowing
“It isn’t just what you know, and it isn’t just who you know. It’s actually who you know, who knows you, and what you do for a living.” —Bob Burg, Best-selling Author of Endless Referrals and The Go Giver.
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Robert Kiyosaki: Find someone who has already been there
“If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.” —Robert Kiyosaki.
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Charlie Munger: Fretful position
“I do think that there’s a lot to be said for developing a temperament that can own securities without fretting. I think that the fretful disposition is an enemy of long-term performance.” —Charlie Munger.
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Scott Sauls: Freely admit
“There is something incredibly attractive and inviting about people who stop pointing fingers and posing and pretending to be totally good and totally right, and instead start taking themselves less seriously and openly and freely admit that they are not yet what they should be.” —Scott Sauls.
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Warren Buffett: Dynamite
“I think it’s almost impossible…to do well in equities over a period of time if you go to bed every night thinking about the price of them. I mean, Charlie and I, we think about the value of them… Focusing on the price of a stock is dynamite, because it really means that you think…
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Ian McKellen: More to life than you know
“Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There’s more to life than you know and it’s all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.” —Ian McKellen.
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Tammy Faye Bakker: Relationship with God
“You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.” —Tammy Faye Bakker.
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John C Bogle: Subtracts value from society
“On balance, the financial system subracts value from society.” —John C. Bogle, Enough.: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life.
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G K Chesterton: Just as easy
“It is just as easy to massacre men in the name of Man as to burn churches in the name of God. It is as feasible to decree inhumanity in humanitarian language as to decree sacrilege in sacred language.” —G K Chesterton.
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Armstrong Williams: Networking
“Networking is an essential part of building wealth.” —Armstrong Williams.
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Christine Lynch: Networking is marketing
“Networking is marketing. Marketing yourself, your uniqueness, what you stand for.” —Christine Lynch.
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Harvey Mackay: Don’t keep score
“My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don’t keep score.” —Harvey Mackay.
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Robert T Miyosaki: Marinate on that
“The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work. Marinate on that for a minute.” —Robert T Miyosaki.
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Ronald Burt: Better eyes
“Instead of better glasses, your network gives you better eyes.” ~ Ronald Burt.
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Keith Ferrazi: Not greed but generosity
“The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.” —Keith Ferrazi.
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Deepak Chopra: Giving
“Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.” —Deepak Chopra.
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John C Bogle: Grim irony of investing
“The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don’t get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don’t pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.” —John C. Bogle, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair…
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Janet Echelman: Shared experience
“It’s good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.” —Janet Echelman.
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G K Chesterton: Old new ideas
“If we are uneducated we shall not know how very old are all new ideas.” —G K Chesterton.
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Steven Spielberg: Biggest party pooper of our lives
“Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.”…
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M Night Shyamalan: Fear is the unknown
“When you say ‘fear of the unknown’, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it’s genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we’re not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.” —M. Night Shyamalan.
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Katy Tur: Wants you to like him
“Donald Trump is the kind of guy that wants you to like him. He wants to be the centre of attention. A TV reporter is somebody who gives him a very grand stage, and I was the first national television correspondent following his campaign. So he wanted to charm me – and when he couldn’t…
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Travis Scott: Constricted
“I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.” —Travis Scott.
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Dick Vermeil: Invest
“If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.” —Dick Vermeil.
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Eckhart Tolle: Light of consciousness
“You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Joseph Simmons: Start running to those who adore you
“Stop running to those who ignore you and start running to those who adore you.” — Joseph Simmons.
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Chris Howard: How will cloud projects evolve
“Cloud computing is actually a spectrum of things complementing one another and building on a foundation of sharing. Inherent dualities in the cloud computing phenomenon are spawning divergent strategies for cloud computing success. The public cloud, hybrid clouds, and private clouds now dot the landscape of IT based solutions. Because of that, the basic issues…
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Suresh Sambandam: Candidate for automation
“In the pre-cloud era, the cost of building software was so high that we often have to define a scope and leave out functionality which we feel doesn’t fetch the ROI for automation. Cloud makes whatever that was previously left out of scope as candidate for automation now! Thanks to simplification, access and affordability brought…
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Scott McNealy: Big friggin’ Webtone switch
“We believe we’re moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on…
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Nicholas Carr: Caveat cloudster
“Discontinued products and services are nothing new, of course, but what is new with the coming of the cloud is the discontinuation of services to which people have entrusted a lot of personal or otherwise important data — and in many cases devoted a lot of time to creating and organizing that data. As businesses…
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David Linthicum: Time-sharing model
“If you think you’ve seen this movie before, you are right. Cloud computing is based on the time-sharing model we leveraged years ago before we could afford our own computers. The idea is to share computing power among many companies and people, thereby reducing the cost of that computing power to those who leverage it.…
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Vivek Kundra: Cloud computing
“Cloud computing is often far more secure than traditional computing, because companies like Google and Amazon can attract and retain cyber-security personnel of a higher quality than many governmental agencies.” ~ Vivek Kundra, Executive Vice President at Salesforce.Com.
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Daryl Plummer: Magazine subscription
“Line-of-business leaders everywhere are bypassing IT departments to get applications from the cloud (also known as software as a service, or SaaS) and paying for them like they would a magazine subscription. And when the service is no longer required, they can cancel that subscription with no equipment left unused in the corner.” ~ Daryl…
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Marc Benioff: Better way to run your business
“If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.” —Marc Benioff, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Salesforce.
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Marc Andreesen: Actually has a shot
“Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.” ~ Marc Andreessen, Co-founder of Netscape, Board Member of Facebook.
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Paul Maritz: How you do computing
“Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing.” ~ Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware.
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Arthur Schopenhauer: Always relative
“It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limits which reason should impose on the desire for wealth; for there is no absolute or definite amount of wealth which will satisfy a man. The amount is always relative, that is to say, just so much as will maintain the proportion between what he wants…
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John C Bogle: More of a profession, less of a business
“First, put the client’s interest ahead of your own, and, one day at a time, help to make this field of investing more of a profession and less of a business. Second, learn every day, but especially learn from the experiences of others. It’s cheaper! And third, never, never lose your idealism, no matter how…
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Seneca: Proper limit
“What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man’s safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another’s and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he…
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Warren Buffett: Jack Bogle
“If a statue is ever erected to honor the person who has done the most for American investors, the handsdown choice should be Jack Bogle…. In his early years, Jack was frequently mocked by the investment-management industry. Today, however, he has the satisfaction of knowing that he helped millions of investors realize far better returns…
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Red Adair: Wait until you hire an amateur
“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair.
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Unknown: Lack of trust
“Lack of trust in an organization is really expensive. You can’t villianize others if you know their kids.” —Unknown.
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Mark Berry: Change-with-the-wind directives
“Programmers don’t burn out on hard work, they burn out on change-with-the-wind directives and not ‘shipping’.” —Mark Berry.
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John Carmack: Not a zero-sum game
“Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn’t take it away from you.” —John Carmack.
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Rita Ora: Leaving an impression
“For me, a fragrance is another way of leaving an impression on somebody.” —Rita Ora.
