The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
Muhammad Yunus
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
Woodrow Wilson
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
Thomas Dunn
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
Andrew Carnegie
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
John Quincy Adams
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 never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
Emily Dickinson
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
Frederic Nietzsche
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
Martha Beck
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
Voltaire
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
Victor Kiam
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
Muhammad Yunus
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
Erica Jong
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
Bruce Lee
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
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
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill
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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
Optimism rules
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
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
Goldie Hawn
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
Andrew Carnegie
Never cut what you can untie.”
Joseph Joubert
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
Madam C.J. Walker
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
Chinese Proverb
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
Oprah Winfrey
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
Helen Keller
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
Barack Obama
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
L.J. Smith
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"
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
Anna Pavlova
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
Robert H. Schuller
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
Benjamin Franklin
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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