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Elon Musk
🇿🇦Elon Musk
Business
b. 1971
"We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world."
89 quotes
Jared Kushner
🇺🇸Jared Kushner
Business
b. 1981
"That doesn’t mean there’s not still a lot of pain and there won’t be pain for a while, but that basically was, we’ve now put out rules to get back to work. Trump’s now back in charge. It’s not the doctors."
9 quotes
Phiwa Nkambule
🇿🇦Phiwa Nkambule
Technology
b. 1992
"Growing up, I believed that people of African origin were born engineers and inventors. That belief boosted my confidence, which has become my greatest strength."
1 quotes
Roger McNamee
🇺🇸Roger McNamee
Technology
b. 1956
1 quotes
Percival Lowell
🇺🇸Percival Lowell
Mathematics
1855–1916
"Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not unakin to what we know on Earth as life?"
7 quotes
Aga Khan IV
🇫🇷Aga Khan IV
Religion
1936–2025
"A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours."
24 quotes
Tomáš Baťa
Tomáš Baťa
Business
1876–1932
"Financial recovery must be preceded by moral recovery."
6 quotes
Steve Bannon
🇺🇸Steve Bannon
Business
b. 1953
"Pennsylvania, if you don't win this now, not only will you never win again — you don't deserve to win again."
19 quotes
Ray Kroc
🇺🇸Ray Kroc
Business
1902–1984
"If I had a brick for every time I’ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I’d probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them."
1 quotes
Alexander Osterwalder
🇨🇭Alexander Osterwalder
Business
b. 1974
"Business models and value propositions expire like a yogurt in the fridge."
1 quotes
Ivana Trump
🇺🇸Ivana Trump
Business
1949–2022
"He’s no politician. He’s a businessman. He knows how to talk. He can give an hour speech without notes . . . He’s blunt."
1 quotes
Larry Flynt
🇺🇸Larry Flynt
Politics
1942–2021
"My position has always been that there's two types of people opposed to pornography: those who don't know what they're talking about, and those who don't know what they're missing."
4 quotes
Silvio Berlusconi
🇮🇹Silvio Berlusconi
Politics
1936–2023
"We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes"
55 quotes
David Beckham
🇬🇧David Beckham
Politics
b. 1975
"I have a camera up my backside almost 24 hours a day."
2 quotes
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
Technology
1847–1931
"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
46 quotes
Sid Meier
🇨🇦Sid Meier
Technology
b. 1954
"A game is a series of interesting choices."
3 quotes
George Shultz
🇺🇸George Shultz
Politics
1920–2021
"Shultz's profile at Stanford University's Hoover Institution"
2 quotes
🇺🇸Howard E. Aldrich
Education
b. 1943
"Organizations are goal-directed, boundary-maintaining, activity systems."
4 quotes
Jimmy Wales
🇬🇧Jimmy Wales
Business
b. 1966
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
58 quotes
Paul Hawken
🇺🇸Paul Hawken
Psychology
b. 1946
"We have an economy where we steal the future, sell it in the present, and call it GDP ."
1 quotes
Melinda Gates
🇺🇸Melinda Gates
Economics
b. 1964
"Some of these big firms often believe in the white guy in a hoodie disrupting a whole industry. So we’re going to disrupt it by making sure we’re indexing for women and minorities because they’ve got great ideas."
2 quotes
Jack Welch
🇺🇸Jack Welch
Business
1935–2020
"Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important."
19 quotes
Edward Earle Purinton
🇺🇸Edward Earle Purinton
Philosophy
1878–1945
"THE PHILOSOPHY OF FASTING - A MESSAGE FOR SUFFERERS AND SINNERS"
1 quotes
Robert Owen
Robert Owen
Philosophy
Socialism
1771–1858
"Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty."
29 quotes
Jim Rogers
🇺🇸Jim Rogers
Business
b. 1942
"I did very little marketing. The key is to make your clients money. If you have a good track record, people will find you and knock on your door. Just make your clients money."
12 quotes
Dick Cheney
🇺🇸Dick Cheney
Politics
1941–2025
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction; there is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."
44 quotes