Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
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
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
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.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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"
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
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
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
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
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"
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
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
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
