Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
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"
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
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
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"
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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 would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
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
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
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
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
