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
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
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
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
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
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
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
– Bill Cosby
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
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
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"
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
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
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
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
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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"
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
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
