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

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

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

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

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

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

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

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

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

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

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

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens