An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
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
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
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"
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
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
