Quotes on

investment, entrepreneurship, project management, people and

innovation

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a
temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the
crowd. -Warren Buffet

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. - John Maynard Keynes

When the public is most frightened, only the strong are left, and that's when the market is in
the best possible hands. - Victor Niederhoffer

Buy things that are going up. Sell things that are going down. And when they stop, get out!
-Rob Smith

What's the difference between a pro and an amateur? Professionals look for what's wrong
with a setup. Amateurs only look for what's right.

The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it's different.' -Sir John Templeton

The most important three words in investing is: “I don’t know.” If someone doesn’t say that
to you then they are lying.-James Altucher

Price lies all the time. Facebook can be valued at $40 billion and then $20 billion and then
$200 billion inside of a four-year period of time. Which of these prices is the truth? None of
them. But all of them were momentarily true, until they were rendered a lie, and a new
truth was forged in the fires of the marketplace. Sunrise, sunset. Prices change and, with
them, the truth itself. -Josh Brown

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship. — Guy Kawasaki

Plans are worthless. Planning is essential. Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.Peter Drucker

To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace. Douglas Conant

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to
recognise ability. Robert Half

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company
works for you. Stan Slap
Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for
doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.Zig Ziglar

Facebook and Twiter aren’t the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like
to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings. Jason Fried

When I hear people complaining about how hard life is I always ask them “Compared to
what? Sydney Justin Harris

Business is a combination of war and sport. Andre Maurois

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. Dan Pallota

It’s tough when markets change and your people within the company don’t. ― Harvard
Business Review

What the average call excellent, the excellent call average. Onyi Anyado

Brand is not what you say it is. It´s what they say it is. Marty Neumeier

Treat objections as requests for further information. Brian Tracy

If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will. Bob Hooey

The biggest impediment to a company’s future success is its past success. Dan Schulman

If you think of the average age of most board members around the world – and, frankly, of
their backgrounds as well – they are not digitally ready. James Bilefield

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole. Theodore Levit

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from
perpendicular thinking.” Peter Diamandis

What's measured improves. - Peter F. Drucker

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things - Peter F. Drucker

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so
constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” – Paul Hawken.

We don’t have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too
many. – Larry Page

At most companies, average performers get an average pay rise. At Netflix, they get a
generous severance package.” Reed Hastings