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
