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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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"
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
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"
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
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
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
