Forbes Motivational Quotes

Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.

Forbes was highly motivated by Noynoy's words: "...Therefore in order to make this country better, you don't need grandiose platforms, all you have to do is to do your job, and do it well, rightly, and in accordance with the principled objective.

CEO Gil Amelio stumbled. Ellison may have been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true. He had neither Ellison’s conspicuous consumption needs nor Gates’s philanthropic impulses nor the competitive urge to see how high on the Forbes list he could get. Instead his ego needs and personal drives led him to seek fulfillment by creating a legacy that would awe people. A dual legacy, actually: building innovative products and building a lasting company. He wanted to be in the pantheon with, indeed a notch above, people like Edwin Land, Bill Hewlett, and David Packard. And the best way to achieve all this was to return to Apple and reclaim his kingdom. And yet when the cup of power neared his lips, he became strangely hesitant, reluctant, perhaps coy. He returned to Apple officially in January 1997 as a part-time advisor, as he had told Amelio he would. He began to assert himself in some personnel areas, especially in protecting his people who had made the transition from NeXT. But in most other ways he was unusually passive. The decision not to ask him to join the board offended him, and he felt demeaned

He had told Larry Ellison that his return strategy was to sell NeXT to Apple, get appointed to the board, and be there ready when CEO Gil Amelio stumbled. Ellison may have been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true. He had neither Ellison’s conspicuous consumption needs nor Gates’s philanthropic impulses nor the competitive urge to see how high on the Forbes list he could get. Instead his ego needs and personal drives led him to seek fulfillment by creating a legacy that would awe people. A dual legacy, actually: building innovative products and building a lasting company. He wanted to be in the pantheon with, indeed a notch above, people like Edwin Land, Bill Hewlett, and David Packard. And the best way to achieve all this was to return to Apple and reclaim his kingdom.

Everywhere you look with this young lady, there’s a purity of motivation,” Shultz told him. “I mean she really is trying to make the world better, and this is her way of doing it.” Mattis went out of his way to praise her integrity. “She has probably one of the most mature and well-honed sense of ethics—personal ethics, managerial ethics, business ethics, medical ethics that I’ve ever heard articulated,” the retired general gushed. Parloff didn’t end up using those quotes in his article, but the ringing endorsements he heard in interview after interview from the luminaries on Theranos’s board gave him confidence that Elizabeth was the real deal. He also liked to think of himself as a pretty good judge of character. After all, he’d dealt with his share of dishonest people over the years, having worked in a prison during law school and later writing at length about such fraudsters as the carpet-cleaning entrepreneur Barry Minkow and the lawyer Marc Dreier, both of whom went to prison for masterminding Ponzi schemes. Sure, Elizabeth had a secretive streak when it came to discussing certain specifics about her company, but he found her for the most part to be genuine and sincere. Since his angle was no longer the patent case, he didn’t bother to reach out to the Fuiszes. — WHEN PARLOFF’S COVER STORY was published in the June 12, 2014, issue of Fortune, it vaulted Elizabeth to instant stardom. Her Journal interview had gotten some notice and there had also been a piece in Wired, but there was nothing like a magazine cover to grab people’s attention. Especially when that cover featured an attractive young woman wearing a black turtleneck, dark mascara around her piercing blue eyes, and bright red lipstick next to the catchy headline “THIS CEO IS OUT FOR BLOOD.” The story disclosed Theranos’s valuation for the first time as well as the fact that Elizabeth owned more than half of the company. There was also the now-familiar comparison to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. This time it came not from George Shultz but from her old Stanford professor Channing Robertson. (Had Parloff read Robertson’s testimony in the Fuisz trial, he would have learned that Theranos was paying him $500,000 a year, ostensibly as a consultant.) Parloff also included a passage about Elizabeth’s phobia of needles—a detail that would be repeated over and over in the ensuing flurry of coverage his story unleashed and become central to her myth. When the editors at Forbes saw the Fortune article, they immediately assigned reporters to confirm the company’s valuation and the size of Elizabeth’s ownership stake and ran a story about her in their next issue. Under the headline “Bloody Amazing,” the article pronounced her “the youngest woman to become a self-made billionaire.” Two months later, she graced one of the covers of the magazine’s annual Forbes 400 issue on the richest people in America. More fawning stories followed in USA Today, Inc., Fast Company, and Glamour, along with segments on NPR, Fox Business, CNBC, CNN, and CBS News. With the explosion of media coverage came invitations to numerous conferences and a cascade of accolades. Elizabeth became the youngest person to win the Horatio Alger Award. Time magazine named her one of the one hundred most influential people in the world. President Obama appointed her a U.S. ambassador for global entrepreneurship, and Harvard Medical School invited her to join its prestigious board of fellows.

Consider consultant Clay Herbert, who is an expert in running crowd-funding campaigns for technology start-ups: a specialty that attracts a lot of correspondents hoping to glean some helpful advice. As a Forbes.com article on sender filters reports, “At some point, the number of people reaching out exceeded [Herbert’s] capacity, so he created filters that put the onus on the person asking for help.” Though he started from a similar motivation as me, Herbert’s filters ended up taking a different form. To contact him, you must first consult an FAQ to make sure your question has not already been answered (which was the case for a lot of the messages Herbert was processing before his filters were in place). If you make it through this FAQ sieve, he then asks you to fill out a survey that allows him to further screen for connections that seem particularly relevant to his expertise. For those who make it past this step, Herbert enforces a small fee you must pay before communicating with him. This fee is not about making extra money, but is instead about selecting for individuals who are serious about receiving and acting on advice. Herbert’s filters still enable him to help people and encounter interesting opportunities. But at the same time, they have reduced his incoming communication to a level he can easily handle.

Life is an experience that often requires taking the tests first, and learning the lessons afterwards.

Life, to me, is like a long journey on unpaved roads, with winding paths and treacherous terrains.

Life is like a blank canvas. You have to risk making a mess to create great art.

Life is like a picnic. You’ll enjoy it better if you bring along lots of goodies.

Life is like a circus. The performances are more enjoyable when they are well-planned and perfectly executed.

God’s providence is brimming with abundance.

When we live our lives in harmony with God’s will, He will give us his abundant blessings.

God wants to give us heaven’s best blessings bountifully, not stingily.

God longs for us to live in prosperity, not poverty; to experience His sufficiency, not bankruptcy.

Our emotions affect our actions, guide our decisions, and shape our attitudes.

Our emotions may even influence our temperament, making us more susceptible to certain ideologies and religious views.

Our emotions can also evoke feelings of gladness and sadness, depending on the changing conditions we experience.

Without our emotions, we would have difficulties putting our faith into practice, building trust and responding to loving affections.

Feelings of anxiety, fear and worry are manifestations of our emotional response to uncertainties.

Among the list of human emotions, anxiety can be regarded as a frequent and potent stress-trigger.

Anxiety is oftentimes, an obvious precursor to fear, stress, and uneasiness.

Anxiety is a natural emotional response triggered by challenging, dangerous or frightening experiences.

Acute anxiety can be a physiological indicator of uncertainty and insecurity.

(Indeed), God is concerned about the negative ways anxiety afflicts us.

The Lord has put in place remedies for our anxieties.

A good attitude turns feelings of despondency into cheerfulness and hopefulness.

Clearly, there is nothing good about having a bad attitude.

With a bad attitude, there is so much to lose, and little or nothing to gain.

Thankfully, God stands ready to assist us in changing our attitude from bad to good, from good to better, from better to noble.

Michael Jordan is indeed the greatest basketball player of all time. Still, he has never won a game by himself. Instead, he and his teammates strategize to setup power-plays in hopes of gaining a winning-edge over their opponents.

Humans are prone to worry about the unknown, risks of failure, and ‘what ifs...

Even now, he is saying to you: I will empower you; I will devise the power-plays to help you outscore, outsmart and outwit your opponents.  I will assist you with winning tactics.  I will aid your advancement in the job-market, company boardroom and career field.

God is your freehanded Father; he loves you unreservedly and wholeheartedly. The wealth of the world is at His disposal. Indeed, our Heavenly Father is eager to supply our needs, and ensure our mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing. That’s because being our compassionate, considerate and kindhearted caretaker is His good pleasure.

Oftentimes, people with bad attitudes are also antagonistic towards God, His people, and the plan of salvation.

A bad attitude makes it more difficult to reach our full potential, to strive for greatness, to live productive and purposeful lives.

A change of attitude may require a change in habit, lifestyle, thinking and perspective.

Life is what happens to us. Circumstance is what surrounds us. Attitude is what shapes our point-of-view. Attitude guides our behavior, impacts on our morals and inspires change that matters.

Elijah’s flight from the reach of her henchmen made him the first person in history to be “jezebelized”—scared by a Jezebel.

when left unchecked, passivity can easily turn to apathy, which is neither helpful nor innocent. Instead, it is symptomatic of a more serious problem—hidden hostility masquerading as passivity.

People who have no vested interest in their wellbeing are often content with a passive attitude.

When Christ is your Team Captain, you can count on a winning strategy for life’s most important games. Even now, the Lord is saying to you, ‘I will help you manage your stress, endure your struggles, and meet your challenges with courage. I will help you deal with life’s harsh realities, overcome your obstacle

With a good attitude, challenges can be changed into possibilities, obstacles into steppingstones, madness into gladness, certain failures into unexpected successes, and misfortunes into golden opportunities.

A good attitude enhances your capability to live up to your full potential.

A good attitude is like a godly quality that endears us to God and man, earth and heaven; prepares us for a promising future, and our eternal destiny.

Armed with a bad attitude, even sensible people are susceptible to doing senseless things.

A bad attitude is symptomatic of impaired judgment and unbalanced reasoning.

Left unchecked, a bad attitude naturally leads to careless, reckless and thoughtless conduct.

A a positive attitude sets our mental gears in motion to produce positive results.

A good attitude is like a charming personality. It makes a disagreeable person more agreeable and likable. A good attitude makes a grumpy person good-natured and warm-hearted.

An overly passive person often has difficulty seeing the value in improving him or herself.

Attitude is a character-trait (mindset) that can be good, bad or neutral. In fact, our attitudes can be shaped by our environment, religious beliefs, parental upbringing and social norms.

Actually, attitude is not permanently set or genetically fused into our being. Instead, attitude can be changed for better or worse—based on the decisions we make every day.

Attitude is the mindset that engenders courage, spurs purposeful action, and stirs determination.

It is the spirit of Satan that afflicts us with a bad attitude. 

was challenged, motivated, focused, and fulfilled.

If your needs are not attainable through safe instruments, the solution is not to increase the rate of return by upping the level of risk. Instead, goals may be revised, savings increased, or income boosted through added years of work. . . . Somebody has to care about the consequences if uncertainty is to be understood as risk. . . . As we’ve seen, the chances of loss do decline over time, but this hardly means that the odds are zero, or negligible, just because the horizon is long. . . . In fact, even though the odds of loss do fall over long periods, the size of potential losses gets larger, not smaller, over time. . . . The message to emerge from all this hype has been inescapable: In the long run, the stock market can only go up. Its ascent is inexorable and predictable. Long-term stock returns are seen as near certain while risks appear minimal, and only temporary. And the messaging has been effective: The familiar market propositions come across as bedrock fact. For the most part, the public views them as scientific truth, although this is hardly the case. It may surprise you, but all this confidence is rather new. Prevailing attitudes and behavior before the early 1980s were different. Fewer people owned stocks then, and the general popular attitude to buying stocks was wariness, not ebullience or complacency. . . . Unfortunately, the American public’s embrace of stocks is not at all related to the spread of sound knowledge. It’s useful to consider how the transition actually evolved—because the real story resists a triumphalist interpretation. . . . Excessive optimism helps explain the popularity of the stocks-for-the-long-run doctrine. The pseudo-factual statement that stocks always succeed in the long run provides an overconfident investor with more grist for the optimistic mill. . . . Speaking with the editors of Forbes.com in 2002, Kahneman explained: “When you are making a decision whether or not to go for something,” he said, “my guess is that knowing the odds won’t hurt you, if you’re brave. But when you are executing, not to be asking yourself at every moment in time whether you will succeed or not is certainly a good thing. . . . In many cases, what looks like risk-taking is not courage at all, it’s just unrealistic optimism. Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don’t know the odds. It’s a big difference.” Optimism can be a great motivator. It helps especially when it comes to implementing plans. Although optimism is healthy, however, it’s not always appropriate. You would not want rose-colored glasses in a financial advisor, for instance. . . . Over the long haul, the more you are exposed to danger, the more likely it is to catch up with you. The odds don’t exactly add, but they do accumulate. . . . Yet, overriding this instinctive understanding, the prevailing investment dogma has argued just the reverse. The creed that stocks grow steadily safer over time has managed to trump our common-sense assumption by appealing to a different set of homespun precepts. Chief among these is a flawed surmise that, with the passage of time, downward fluctuations are balanced out by compensatory upward swings. Many people believe that each step backward will be offset by more than one step forward. The assumption is that you can own all the upside and none of the downside just by sticking around. . . . If you find yourself rejecting safe investments because they are not profitable enough, you are asking the wrong questions. If you spurn insurance simply because the premiums put a crimp in your returns, you may be destined for disappointment—and possibly loss.