If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

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

– Peter F. Drucker

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

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

– Chinese Proverb

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– August Rush

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"

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

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

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

– Woodrow Wilson

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

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

– Helen Keller

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

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

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

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

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Aristotle

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

– Chinese Proverb

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

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

– Michelle Sedas

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

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Edgar W. Howe

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

– Groucho Marx

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

– Carl Rogers

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"

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

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

– Anais Nin

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

– Arundhati Roy

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