The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
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
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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
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"
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
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
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
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
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
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"
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
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
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
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
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
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
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
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
– Bill Cosby
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
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
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
