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
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"
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
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"
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 not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
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
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
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
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
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
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
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 quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
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
