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

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

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

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

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

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

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

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

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

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

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

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

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

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

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

– Chinese Proverb

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

– Optimism rules

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

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

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

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

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

– Lewis Carroll

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein