You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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 it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
“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.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
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"
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
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"
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
