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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
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
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
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
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
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 will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
“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.
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
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
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
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 we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
