Quotes

One of my teacher’s teachers is Stephen K. Hayes, who is one of the very few individuals worthy of the title of warrior sage. A practice he got from his father, motivational speaker Ira Hayes, is the compiling of quotations and ideas that are useful and worth inserting into presentations and such at later dates. I’m inspired to create my own here. I will attribute to the person I heard them from and if I can find the original author, them as well.

• Chaos at the bottom means order at the top. Order at the bottom means chaos at the top. – Stephen K. Hayes
• Money flows through responsibility. – Mitch Joel
• We live or die on our database. – Chris Brogan
• It takes two to make a bully. – Stephen K. Hayes
• It’s not about who you know. It’s about who knows you. – Mitch Joel
• Energy flows where attention goes. – Ken Savage
• If a collections agency can send letters to people who have no money, offering them nothing, and still get money, imagine what marketers who have something to offer could do with letters to people who have money? – Dan Kennedy
• Timid salesmen have skinny kids. – Zig Ziglar
• No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. – Jewel
• One of the characteristics of a leader is that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever he’s dreaming. – Benjamin Zander
• Be yourself, because others are already taken. – Oscar Wilde
• I would do this for free, but I make you pay so that you understand the value of what you’re getting. – Mike Lipkin
• Some people never quite get it, no matter how many times they’ve been hit over the head with the two-by-four of wisdom. – Michael Panzer
• The smaller the target, the more vigorous the reaction. – Ken Savage
• Heroism is the antidote to evil. – Phillip Zimbardo
• How many rough edges can you have before something becomes too sharp to handle safely? – Scott from the WoW.com forums
• Scarcity makes foes of everyone. – Campbell Robertson
• Tools get socially interesting after they’re no longer technologically interesting. – Clay Shirky
• Any opportunity to be helpful is an opportunity to earn money. – Chris Brogan
• There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela
• There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities; it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain. – J. Michael Straczynski
• I’m pissed at a nickel because it isn’t a dime. – Gene Simmons of KISS
• Peace is fragile when resources are in demand. – World of Warcraft
• You’d be surprised how much people will pay for a Rabbit when the only alternative is a Ferrari. – World of Warcraft forums
• If a pig is happy in her stall, the open door means nothing. – Orgrim Doomhammer
• The primordial soup that creates heroes never tastes of rainbows — it’s a lumpy gumbo of suffering and evil. Heroes are born from darkness, because we desperately need someone to light the way. It’s an unfair world that cries out for heroes. To bring order out of chaos and justice to the downtrodden is the hero’s call. Is it any wonder that the world is an unfair place? It’s monstrously unfair. And it’s going to stay that way. It means we’re going to need a lot more heroes to bring justice to an unjust world. We’re going to need you to step up and reshape the world. – Dave Kosak
• The plural of anecdote is not data. – Cynwise
• If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares? – Galen
• The role of art is to chase away ugliness. – Bono
• The smaller the mind, the greater the ego. – Tom Clancy
• When the shooter misses the target, it ain’t the target’s fault. – Bob Burg
• Our stature is measured by the enemies we make. – Enabran Tain
• If you do not pay for a service, you are the product they sell. So it ever has been. – Tom Webster
• The inbox is the perfect delivery system of other people’s priorities. – Chris Brogan
• Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They’re attached to people. If you’re looking for an opportunity, you’re really looking for a person. – Reid Hoffman