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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
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
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
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
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
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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
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
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
