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
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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 best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
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
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
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
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
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"
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
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
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
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
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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"
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
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
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
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
