Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
Victor Kiam
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
Noela Evans
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
African Proverb
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
Warren Buffett
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
Eve Ensler
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
T.S. Eliott
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
J.G. Holland, novelist
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
Maureen Cook
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
Indira Ghandi
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
Anna Pavlova
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
Napoleon
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
W.E.B. Du Bois
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 a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
J.K. Rowling
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
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
Brian Tracy
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
J.G. Holland, novelist
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
Lord Chesterfield
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
Robert H. Schuller
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
Jesse Jackson
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
Steven Schussler
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
Michelle Sedas
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
Martha Beck
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
Corita Kent
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
Basil King
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
Thomas Edison
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
Woodrow Wilson
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
William James
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