Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
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"
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
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
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
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
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
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
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"
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
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
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
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
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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
