The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
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
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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"
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
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
