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The Inkandescent Radio Network: The Voice of Entrepreneurs

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Bringing the voices of small-business owners to the radio waves is the goal of The Inkandescent Radio Network, which launched in the fall of 2012.

Hosted by journalist, publicist, author, and entrepreneur Hope Katz Gibbs, the show will spotlight the Entrepreneurs of the Month featured on her monthly business magazine, www.BeInkandescent.com, — as well as the Truly Amazing Women she has interviewed for her book project, www.TrulyAmazingWomen.com.

Gibbs will also be interviewing the bestselling authors, nationally renowned artists, and expert columnists featured in Be Inkandescent magazine, and on her popular networking website, www.InkandescentNetworking.com, which lists hundreds of the best networking events—and professionals—in seven East Coast cities. Plus, she’ll be talking to top restaurateurs, chefs, foodies, and hoteliers whom she spotlights in her “From Soup to Nuts” reviews.

Promoting, educating, and inspiring entrepreneurs is the mission of The Inkandescent Group, LLC — a PR, marketing, design, and publishing company that helps small businesses get the visibility they need to glow and grow.

So, what’s your story? If you’d like to be interviewed on The Inkandescent Radio Network, http://www.inkandescentradio.com,, send Hope Katz Gibbs an email: hope@inkandescentpr.com.

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

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

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

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

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

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

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

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

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan