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
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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"
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
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The 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"
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– 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.
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
