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"
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
Mary Kay Ash
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
Arthur Rubinstein
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
Langston Hughes
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
Norwegian proverb
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
Richard Dumb
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
Andrew Carnegie
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
Virginia Woolf
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
Anthony Trollope
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
Gandi
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
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca
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
Never cut what you can untie.”
Joseph Joubert
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
Joseph Addison
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
Henry Miller
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
William Blake
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
Robert Fritz
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
Muhammad Yunus
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
E.B. White
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
African Proverb
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
Thomas Edison
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leon Joseph Suenens
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
Victor Kiam
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
Andrew Carnegie
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
Oprah Winfrey
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
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
August Rush
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
John Lennon
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
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
Kathleen Jo Ryan
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
Corita Kent
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
James Madison
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
Chinese proverb
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
Ella Fitzgerald
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
Edgar W. Howe