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"
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
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
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
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
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
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
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
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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
“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.
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
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
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
