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The Inkandescent Speakers Bureau

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At InkandescentSpeakers.com, our professional speakers are some of the most knowledgeable business experts, been-there-done-that entrepreneurs, corporate and government leaders, visionary educators, and veteran futurists who can give you a glimpse at what is ahead on the horizon.

With wit and a sense of humor, our experienced speakers offer best practices and insights into the hottest trends in business, and organizational, professional, and personal development through corporate keynotes, workshops, seminars, webinars, lunch-and-learns, and networking events.

Speeches feature:

Topics that are important to the growth of your organization: foresight and innovation, the generations at work, best practices in hiring and recruiting—as well as the future of education, leadership, management, marketing, PR, financial planning, and more.

Insight and guidance that is needed by entrepreneurs, small-business owners, and corporate managers—as well as career changers and college grads who are entering the workforce.
Inspirational ideas that are concrete as well as motivational, and that help professionals develop a clear strategy to accomplish their long- and short-term goals.

We look forward to meeting you—and inspiring your team and audience!Hope Katz Gibbs, founder, Inkandescent Speakers

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Oprah Winfrey

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Jesse Jackson

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Annie Dillard

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

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"

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

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

– William Shakespeare

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

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

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

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

– Alfred Adler

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

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

– Basil King

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

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

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

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