If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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 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
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
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"
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
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
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
