Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

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

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

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

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

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

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

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

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

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

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

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

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

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

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

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

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon