The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
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
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
