A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
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
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
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
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
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
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
