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
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
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
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
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
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
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
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
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
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
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
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
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
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
“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.
