My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– 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
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
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
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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 would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
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 good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
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
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
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
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
