Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

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

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

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"

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

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

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

– Bill Cosby

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

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

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

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

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

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

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

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

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.“


– Thomas Edison

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity, be an honest and compassionate person, and contribute in some way.”

– Ellen DeGeneres

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

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"

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

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

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker