Best Quotes

"We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"We hire people who want to make the best things in the world"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality"

Jane Austen, Writer

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The wildest colts make the best horses"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts"

John Locke, Philosopher

"Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

"The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us"

Socrates, Philosopher

"Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below"

George Orwell, Author

"The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols"

Tom Peters, Businessman

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"But the shortest works are always the best"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"No man fails who does his best"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best"

George Eliot, Author

"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know"

George Eliot, Author

"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows"

George Eliot, Author

"The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world"

George Eliot, Author

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