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"

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

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

– Lord Chesterfield

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

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"

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

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

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

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

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

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

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

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

– Ray Bradbury

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

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

“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 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

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

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

– Thomas Edison

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

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

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

– William Butler Yeats

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

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

– Napoleon

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Hindu Proverb

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

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt