Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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
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"
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
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
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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
