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Single Quotes
Direct quotes from billionaire-authored books with exact page citations.
← Every memoThe Andy Grove Line Michael Dell Put at the Front of His Book — and Lived Twice
Play Nice But Win
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 267 · Single QuotesCharlie Munger’s Blunt Advice for Anyone Afraid to Think Differently
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 268 · Single QuotesHow John D. Rockefeller Turned Market Chaos Into a Lifelong Advantage
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 107 · Single QuotesDonald Trump’s One Rule for Thinking That Separates Winners from Everyone Else
The Art of the Deal
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 119 · Single QuotesHow Ray Dalio Turned 50 Years of Debt Cycles Into a System That Beat the 2008 Crisis
Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 106 · Single QuotesHoward Schultz on Why Commitment Comes Before the Map
Onward, A Beverage of Truth
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 70 · Single QuotesHoward Schultz’s Quiet Leadership Rule: ‘We’ Before ‘I’
Onward, A Reservoir of Trust
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 133 · Single QuotesWhy John Doerr Ties Accountability to Who Can See Your Goals
Measure What Matters
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 204 · Single QuotesJohn Doerr’s Closing Conviction: The Mantra Behind One of Silicon Valley’s Most Influential Books
Measure What Matters
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 227 · Single QuotesJohn Doerr’s Parting Lesson: Why It Always Takes a Team to Win
Measure What Matters
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 255 · Single QuotesMark Cuban’s Definition of Relaxing Will Make You Rethink Every Idle Moment
How to Win at the Sport of Business
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 189 · Single QuotesMark Cuban’s Simple Test for Whether You’re Serious About Business
How to Win at the Sport of Business
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 73 · Single QuotesOprah Winfrey’s Quiet Principle for Getting Through the Hardest Days
What I Know for Sure
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 187 · Single QuotesPhil Knight Never Had a Master Plan — And That’s Exactly Why Nike Exists
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, 1962
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 234 · Single QuotesPhil Knight’s Obsession With Factories: The Insight That Built Nike’s Edge
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, 1976
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 248 · Single QuotesRay Dalio’s Simple Rule for Never Making a Decision He Regrets
Principles: Life and Work, Embrace Reality and Deal with It
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 83 · Single QuotesRay Dalio’s Warning: No Empire, Currency, or System Lasts Forever — Yet We’re Always Surprised
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 155 · Single QuotesRay Dalio’s Warning: The Three Forces That Have Collapsed Every Empire in History
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 182 · Single QuotesReed Hastings’ Real Achievement Wasn’t Reinventing Television — It Was Reinventing How Companies Treat People
No Rules Rules
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 130 · Single QuotesRichard Branson’s One-Word Rule for Building a Billion-Dollar Empire
Screw It, Let's Do It, Just Do It!
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 186 · Single QuotesRichard Branson’s One-Word Rule for Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Empire
Screw It, Let's Do It, Just Do It!
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 171 · Single QuotesRichard Branson’s Simple Test for Knowing When to Actually Worry About Failure
The Virgin Way
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 262 · Single QuotesRichard Branson’s Simple Rule for a Life Worth Living
Losing My Virginity
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 79 · Single QuotesRichard Branson’s Two-Word Philosophy That Built a $5 Billion Empire
Screw It, Let's Do It, Just Do It!
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 94 · Single QuotesSam Walton’s Secret Weapon: He Never Forgot Where He Came From
Made in America
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 202 · Single QuotesSam Zell Built a Real Estate Empire by Saying What Everyone Else Was Too Polite to Say
Am I Being Too Subtle?
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 254 · Single QuotesSam Zell’s One-Line Philosophy That Explains Every Deal He Ever Made
Am I Being Too Subtle?
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 177 · Single QuotesStephen Schwarzman’s Definition of Character — It’s Not What Happens to You
What It Takes
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 90 · Single QuotesStephen Schwarzman’s Quiet Rule for Achieving Excellence: Follow Enthusiasm, Not Prestige
What It Takes
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 74 · Single QuotesThe Decision Filter That Changes Everything: Make Every Choice Based on Who You Want to Become
Pour Your Heart Into It
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 153 · Single QuotesThe George Patton Rule for Reading People Instantly
Tribe of Mentors
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 93 · Single QuotesThe One Sentence That Explains Why Some People Can Persuade Anyone
The One Sentence Persuasion Course
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 86 · Single QuotesThe Question That Stopped Oprah Cold — And Sparked a Career-Defining Search for Truth
What I Know for Sure
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 136 · Single QuotesThe Question That Stopped Oprah Cold — And Launched Her Most Defining Work
What I Know for Sure
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 76 · Single QuotesThe Rabbi’s Question That Cuts Through Every Business Dilemma
Tribe of Mentors
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 213 · Single QuotesThe Ray Dalio Principle That Turns Every Setback Into a Gift
Principles: Life and Work, Embrace Reality and Deal with It
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 152 · Single QuotesThe Surprising Thing Michael Dell Learned From His Customers That No Competitor Could Copy
Direct from Dell
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 258 · Single QuotesTrump’s Uncomfortable Truth: The Best Business Minds Aren’t Made in a Classroom
The Art of the Deal
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 246 · Single QuotesTrump’s Unsettling Truth: The Smartest Person in the Room Often Loses
The Art of the Deal
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 249 · Single QuotesWarren Buffett’s Four-Word Rule That Separates Price From Value
Tools of Titans
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 185 · Single QuotesWarren Buffett’s Honest Confession: Why Getting Bigger Made Winning Harder
Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 105 · Single QuotesWarren Buffett’s Most Honest Admission: The Year Even Inspector Clouseau Could Have Done Better
Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter 1999
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 160 · Single QuotesWarren Buffett’s Secret Persuasion Weapon: Admitting He Was Wrong First
Berkshire Shareholder Letters
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 169 · Single QuotesWarren Buffett’s Worst Year: How He Faced Failure With Brutal Honesty
Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter 1999
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 231 · Single QuotesWarren Buffett’s Worst Year: How He Faced Failure Without Flinching
Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter 1999
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 129 · Single QuotesWhy Jeff Bezos Says You Can’t Innovate Without a Long Time Horizon
Invent and Wander, Decisions
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 99 · Single QuotesWhy Ray Dalio Spent Decades Mapping Every Major Debt Crisis in History
How Countries Go Broke
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 162 · Single QuotesWhy Reed Hastings Believes a Great Workplace Isn’t About Perks — It’s About People
No Rules Rules
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 253 · Single QuotesWhy Richard Branson Calls Himself ‘Dr Yes’ — And What It Cost Him to Forget It
Screw It, Let's Do It, Be Bold
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 250 · Single QuotesWhy Richard Branson Banned the Word ‘Can’t’ — And Built an Empire Because of It
Screw It, Let's Do It, Just Do It!
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 263 · Single QuotesWhy Stephen Schwarzman Tells His Scholars to Embrace Failure First
What It Takes
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 64 · Single Quotes5 Steps Ray Dalio Built to Diagnose Any Failure and Never Repeat It
Principles
Power reserve 4 min Ref. 62 · Single QuotesRichard Branson’s Two-Word Philosophy That Built an Empire: Just Do It
Screw It, Let's Do It
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 10 · Single QuotesHoward Schultz’s Case for Showing Up Every Single Day — Even When It Doesn’t Feel Like It Matters
Pour Your Heart Into It
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 60 · Single QuotesJ. Paul Getty’s Unvarnished Truth About a Life Spent in the Arena
As I See It
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 29 · Single QuotesJ. Paul Getty’s Quiet Blueprint for Wealth: Serve Many People
How to Be Rich
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 49 · Single QuotesJ. Paul Getty’s Three-Part Formula for a Good Life
As I See It
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 26 · Single QuotesMark Cuban’s Relentless Rule: Why He Never Really Stops Working
How to Win at the Sport of Business
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 6 · Single QuotesRay Dalio’s Most Underrated Confession — And Why It’s the Key to Everything He Built
Principles
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 7 · Single QuotesRay Dalio’s Most Underrated Skill: Knowing What You Don’t Know
Principles: Life and Work, Introduction
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 5 · Single QuotesRay Dalio’s Self-Taught Superpower: Why Figuring Things Out Beats Knowing Things
Principles: Life and Work, The Ultimate Boon: 1995-2010
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 48 · Single QuotesReed Hastings’ Counterintuitive Formula: More Freedom, Fewer Rules, Better Results
No Rules Rules
Power reserve 3 min Ref. 50 · Single QuotesStephen Schwarzman on Why a Small Business Costs the Same as a Big One
What It Takes
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 27 · Single QuotesWhy Marc Benioff Says the CEO Can’t Be the Only One Making the Hard Calls
Trailblazer
Power reserve 2 min Ref. 1 · Single QuotesThe Cowards Never Started and the Weak Died Along the Way
Shoe Dog
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