I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
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 follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
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
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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
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"
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
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
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
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
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
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
