G
Games
today – not people playing other people assisted by computers; it’s computers
playing computers using people to move the pieces.
Garlic
is not a cologne.
GDS was founded to be a soul-making institution, not an
identity-affirming institution.
Gehm’s corollary (to Clarke’s third law): Any technology distinguishable from magic is
insufficiently advanced
GEN “C”
(connected)
Generals
are always prepared to fight the last war.
Generalship
is not about fighting the battle, it's about inspiring the enlisted.
Genius
begins great works, labor alone finishes them.
Genius =
disciplined talent.
Genius is
what you do with the mistakes.
Genius
may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Geniuses
are always difficult. The same qualities which make them monsters are required
to make them great.
Geniuses
aren’t complicated. They have few moving parts like Teslas.
Get in
over your head.
Get it
first, but first get it right.
Get out
of the building.
Get sales
up, and keep expenses down.
Get the
spectators off the field.
Get under
the covers.
Get what
you can and what you get, hold.
Get your
lantern before it grows dark.
Getting
better at getting better.
Getting cheated
occasionally is a small price to pay for trusting the best of everyone, because
when you trust the best in others they will treat you the best.
Getting
even with someone is no way to get ahead of anyone.
Getting
good players is easy. Getting them to
play together is the hard part.
Getting it
right demands that you be attentive in the way of a conversation rather than
assertive in the way of a demonstration.
Getting
married a third time is like bringing a burn victim to a fireworks show.
Getting
money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into
sand.
Getting older. I used to be able to run a
4-minute mile, bench press 380 pounds, and tell the truth. - Conan O'Brien
Getting
paid for being laid.
Getting rich is supposed to be the reward for hard work,
preferably arriving when you are too old to enjoy it.
Getting
the most out of people isn’t necessarily getting the best.
Getting
users is a gradual process that needs to be aggressively pursued in every
start-up.
Getting
the team right is a necessary precursor to getting the idea right.
Gifts
that eat.
Girls are
made, men are raised.
Girls
bully relationally; boys bully physically and verbally.
Girls need other girls; boys can make do with
things.
Give a
man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth. (Wilde)
Give a
man enough rope, and he will hang himself.
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Give me
chastity and continence, but not just now.
Give me
the luxuries of life, and I will gladly do without the necessities.
Give sorrow words: the grief that does
not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids
it break. (Macbeth)
Give up
on perfection.
Give without
expecting a get.
Give your
dream a deadline. That makes it a goal.
Given a
10% chance of a 100 times payout, you should take that bet every time. (BEZOS)
Given
enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and
car keys to teenage boys.
Giving up
doesn’t mean stopping.
Giving up
drinking doesn’t make you live longer, it only feels like it.
Giving up
on perfection without giving up on hope.
Glamour
is a bird that for dark and largely unknowable reasons decides to light on this
branch rather than another.
Globalization
is the forest. Personalization is the trees.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
(Cicero)
Glory is
fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Go all
out in romance and let the chips fall wherever.
Go big or
go home.
Go big or
stay home.
Go deep
or don’t go at all.
Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to
see.
Go know.
Go out
and make it happen.
Go out on
a limb – that’s where the fruit is.
Go over
their heads.
Go put your creed into your deed.
"Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by /That here, obedient to their laws, we lie."
Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded.
Go where
you are wanted.
God aids
him who changes.
God does
not roll dice. (Einstein)
God gave
man a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses
in December. (James M. Barrie)
God –
Give me one more bubble. I promise I will sell.
God has
given mankind a stage upon which to perform. (Jim Lovell)
God has
given you one face and you make yourself another. (Hamlet)
God have mercy on the man / Who doubts what he's sure of.
God is in
the details.
God is
not on the side of the big arsenals, but on the side of those who shoot best.
God is on
the side not of the heavy battalions, but of the best shots.
God is
non the side of the best artillery.
God said
it, I believe it, and that settles it.
God sees
the truth but waits.
God
himself wouldn’t rain on a girl with shoes like those.
God’s
punishment: Gottes Strafe.
Going
slow isn’t anyone’s idea of how to get ahead.
Going to
church does not make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes
you a car.
Golden
lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
Golf is a
sport of the least mistakes.
Good
artists copy. Great artists steal.
Good bookstores thrive, bad
bookstores die.
Good
company on the road is the shortest cut.
Good
companies get funded in any market.
Good
cooking takes time. If you are made to
wait, it is to serve you better and to please you.
Good
days, bad days and half going mad days.
Good
decisions come from wisdom.
Wisdom
comes from experience.
Experience
comes from bad decisions.
Good
deeds are better than wise sayings.
Good
design is less about what is added than what is subtracted.
Good
enough is never enough.
Good
enough never is.
Good
enough sometimes is
Good
Enough is Plenty
Good,
fast, cheap (pick any two).
Good friends are hard to find,
harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
Good gets better; bad gets worse
Good
grooming used to be a good thing.
Good
ideas, based on solid concepts, have a great deal of difficulty being
understood by those who make a living doing things the other way.
Good
intentions don’t work, but mechanisms do.
Good is
the enemy of great.
Good is
the minimum – the baseline. You have to be so much better than good. Even if
you’re great and lucky as well, it’s not enough. You still need to work really
hard.
Good
judgment comes from experience which comes from bad judgment.
Good
leaders build loyalty beyond reason.
Good
leadership is about disappointing people at a rate they can handle.
Good
managers challenge their people; poor ones comfort them.
Good
music is a means of rapid transportation.
Good partners protect you from others; great partners protect
you from yourself.
Good stories beat good spreadsheets.
Good things come to those who believe, better things come to
those who are patient, and the best things come to those who don't give up.
Good
things of day begin to droop and drowse / while night's black agents to their
preys do rouse.
Good
timber does not grow with ease, the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
Good will
doesn’t equal good coverage.
Good
wolf/bad wolf. The one you feed is the one who will prevail.
Good work
has one author – one true originator – and everyone else works in service of
that person.
Goodbye
is the emptiest yet fullest of the human messages. (Vonnegut)
Goodhart’s
Law: When the measure becomes the goal, it ceases to be an effective measure.
Goodness
is the only investment that never fails.
Grace buys you a lot of friends.
Grace is
more beautiful than beauty.
Grace is
to the body what clear thinking is to the mind.
Gradatim
Ferociter Step by Step, Ferociously
Grand themes-emotion of triumph, romance
of professionalism.
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old, it's
the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother that does. - J. Norman
Collie
Grant
graciously what you cannot safely refuse and conciliate those you cannot
conquer.
Gratitude
is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Gratitude
is the right attitude.
Gravity
always wins.
Gray hair
is a sign of age, not wisdom.
Great brands
are earned, not bought.
Great
companies hire from within.
Great
companies make meaning.
Great
education isn’t about filling an empty vessel; it’s about lighting a fire and
sustaining the passion that we all have to make a difference in the lives of
others.
Great
griefs are mute.
Great
hangs back until very good gets tired. (Bono)
Great
love and great achievements involve great risk.
Great men
are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
Great
minds think alike.
Great music
penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Great
oaks from little acorns grow.
Great
openings sell scripts; great endings sell tickets.
Great people
are the ONLY Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Great personages of history occur twice: the first time as
tragedy, the second as farce. (Karl Marx)
Great
players swing as hard as they want, average players swing as hard as they can.
Great
poetry sounds great in any interested reader’s voice.
Great
spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Einstein)
Great
success cannot come without great setbacks.
Great teams aren't always great, they're just
great when they have to be.
Great
works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
Greatness
is achieved despite as much as because of who we are.
Greatness is in the agency of others.
Grief is not linear. You don’t get a punch card
with a new hole every time you pass through another stage.
Grief is
passive and mourning is active.
Grief is
the price we pay for love.
Grinning
like a jackass eating briars.
Groups
that change the world have an original vision, one that is as likely to be
rooted in dreams as in experience.
Grousing versus governing.
Growing
by getting broader versus growing by getting better.
Grow in
control.
Grow your
business with stronger people who can take responsibility and initiative, not
with more rules and structure.
Growin’ old is a helpless hurt.
Growing
old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.
Growing
old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
Growth
solves most problems.
GSD – Get
shit done.
Guilt is
a waste of emotion.
Guilt is
the most useless emotion known to man.
Guilt
never falls to the floor. (Cuba)
