Tindell Quotes

#1. For linear-thinking companies, the six Ds of exponentials are the six horsemen of the apocalypse - no question about it.

Peter H. Diamandis

#2. Building a business where everyone thrives

Kip Tindell

#3. You can build a much more wonderful company on love than you can on fear.

Kip Tindell

#4. The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this concept into English is like translating "fuckface" into Nipponese, but it might translate into "emotional intensity" in football lingo.

Neal Stephenson

#5. Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

Emeli Sande

#6. Unforgiveness is a poison you drink hoping someone else will die.

Linda White

#7. An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.

Kip Tindell

#8. If you know the only way to lose your seat is to get out-conservatived in a primary, you'll never let anyone get to your right.

Marco Rubio

#9. But whether I touch him or I run, whether I'm dreaming or I'm awake, on his birthday or on all other days, my whole life has been contaminated with the fact that he is dead.

Jean Hegland

#10. We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.

Kip Tindell

#11. The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#12. The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Henry David Thoreau

#13. You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we have to pay you more, it will be bad for you." And that's because saying that is a much more polite way of saying, "I'm rich, you're poor, and I would prefer to keep it what way."

Nick Hanauer

#14. I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.

Hugh Hefner

#15. Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#16. Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#17. That's what leadership is all about: getting somebody to see your vision and believe it's possible.

Kip Tindell