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

– Victor Kiam

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

– Annie Dillard

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

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

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

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

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– T.S. Eliott

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

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

– Martha Beck

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

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

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

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

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

– Carl Rogers

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Charles Dickens

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

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

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

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

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

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

– Hindu Proverb

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx