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"
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
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
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
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
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
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
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
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
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
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
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
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
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
