Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

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

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

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

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

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

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

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"

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

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

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

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

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

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

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry