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
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
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
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
