You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
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
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
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"
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
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
