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
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"
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
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
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
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
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
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
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
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
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
