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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

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

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Muhammad Yunus

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

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

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

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

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

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– William Jennings Bryan

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

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

– Thomas Dunn

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

– Abraham Lincoln

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

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

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

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

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

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

– William Shakespeare

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

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

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

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

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

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