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

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Nelson Mandela

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

– The Dalai Lama

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

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

– Booker T. Washington

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

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

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

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

– Peter F. Drucker

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

– Charles Dickens

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

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 does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

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

– Hindu Proverb

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

– Jack Kerouac

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Martha Beck

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

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

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

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

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

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

– Barack Obama

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"

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James