The Best Things Ever Said + Three Most Famous Misattributed Quotes
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
– Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
– Oscar Wilde, Poet and Playwright
“If you’re going through hell, keep going”
– Winston Churchill, Former Prime Minister of the UK
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success”
– Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning”
– Bill Gates, Co-Founder of Microsoft
“The best things in life are on the other side of terror”
– Will Smith, Actor
“Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right”
– Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO of Netflix
“You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt.”
– Jeremy Stoppelman, Co-founder and CEO of Yelp
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again”
– Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group
Best QUOTES Completely Misattributed
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
– (Not) Albert Einstein
Einstein has a lot attributed to him, I guess because most people immediately stop questioning your sources when it has a smart person’s name attached.
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
– (Not) Voltaire
This was actually a paraphrasing by a friend, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, on Voltaire’s philosophy. Evidently it was succinct enough to stand up on its own, and people just attributed it as a direct quote.
”If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.”
– (Not) Winston Churchill
Historians tend to agree that it would have made no sense for Winston to have said this.
The phrase can better be associated with 19th century French statesman Francois Guizot who said “Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head.”
