Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
“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.
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
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
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
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
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
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
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
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
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
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
