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
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
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
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
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
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
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"
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
