Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
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
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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 great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
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
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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 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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
