We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
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"
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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
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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
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
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
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
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
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
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
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
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
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
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"
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
