Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
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"
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
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
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
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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 my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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"
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
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"
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
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
