Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
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
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
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
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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 best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
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"
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
