Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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"
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
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
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
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
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
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
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
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
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
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
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
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
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
