Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
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
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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
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"
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
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
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"
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
