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
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
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"
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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 are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
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"
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
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
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
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 aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
