Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
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
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
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
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"
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
