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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

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

– T.S. Eliot

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

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

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

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

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

– Robert Frost

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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"

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

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

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

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– Basil King

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

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

– Tony Robbins

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

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

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

– Bruce Lee

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

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

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Francesca Reigle

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Optimism rules

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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