When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
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
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
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
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
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
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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"
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
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
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
