I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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"
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
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
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
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 world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
“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 biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
