If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
Ajahn Chah
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
Victor Kiam
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
Benjamin Disraeli
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
Oprah Winfrey
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
Oprah Winfrey
Passion makes perfect.”
Eugene Biro
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
Joseph Cambell
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
Alfred Adler
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
Tony Robbins
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"
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde
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
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
Michelle Sedas
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
Arundhati Roy
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
Helen Keller
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leon Joseph Suenens
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci
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
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
Anthony Trollope
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
Martha Beck
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
Seth Godin
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
Magical
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
Ray Bradbury
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
Sri Aurobindo
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
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
President Calvin Coolidge
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
Andrew Carnegie
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
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
J.K. Rowling
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
Anita Roddick
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
Anna Pavlova
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
Charles Dickens
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
Victor Kiam