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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
“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.
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
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
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
