The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
