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"
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
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
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
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
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
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
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 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
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
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
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
