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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
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
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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"
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
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"
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
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
