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In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
Bill Gatesborn 1955
- Business
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gatesborn 1955
- Business
- Technology
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
J. Paul Getty1892–1976
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 68
- Luck
You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Forerunner (1920)
- Motivation & Goals
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
André Gide1869–1951Si le grain ne meurt [If It Die] (1924), ch. III
- Motivation & Goals
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
- Motivation & Goals
While Man’s desires and aspirations stir,
He cannot choose but err.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Prologue in Heaven, spoken by The LordIn context
- Failure
- Motivation & Goals
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890Often credited to George Eliot
I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth⁠—even if it costs him his job.
Samuel Goldwyn1882–1974
- Business
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
Jane Goodall1934–2025“The Power of One”, TIME Magazine (26 August 2002)
- Motivation & Goals
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Al Goreborn 1948Concession speech (2000)
- Failure
The path to greatness is along with others.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658
Better to be cheated by the price than by the merchandise.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 157 (p. 89)
- Business
- Money
Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain.
Anthony the Great251–357Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum), Antony 35; trans. Benedicta Ward (1975)
- Motivation & Goals
- Virtue