1. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

-- Aristotle

2. The best way out is always through.-- Robert Frost

3. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.-- William B. Sprague

4. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-- Albert Einstein

5. Whether you think you can or think you cant, youre right.-- Henry Ford

6. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.-- Oprah Winfrey

7. Ive missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Ive lost almost 300 games. 26 times, Ive been
trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. Ive failed over and over and over again in my life.
And that is why I succeed.-- Michael Jordan

8. You must be the change you want to see in the world.-- Mahatma Gandhi

9. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your
goals.-- Goethe

10. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they
want.-- Zig Ziglar

11. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.-- Mahatma Gandhi

12. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire
which transcends everything.-- Napoleon Hill

13. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.-- Truman Capote

14. Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.-- Japanese Proverb

15. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the
wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.-- Theodore Roosevelt

16. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.-- Isaac B.
Singer

17. Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.-- Unknown

18. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least
expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

19. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the
ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

20. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
- Unknown

21. Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
- Unknown

22. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
- Dan Stanford

23. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert Einstein

24. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs

25. If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh
about it now.
- Marie Osmond

26. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
- Roy Goodman

27. If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
- E. Joseph Cossman

28. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

29. We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain

31. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain

32. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

33. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

34. The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
- Richard B. Sheridan

35. Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

36. "Act or accept."
- Unanonymous

37. Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the
other is worthless.
- Tim Blixseth

38. The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

39. Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
- Dr Phil

40. Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it
will burn very briefly.
- Stephen R. Covey

41. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When
they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peale

42. Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
- Anonymous

43. Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist

44. I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.
- John Cage

45. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert Einstein

46. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
- Unknown

47. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Unknown

48. Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they
don't want to do it.
- Dr. Phil

49. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the
responsibility for changing them.
- Dr. Denis Waitley

50. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill

51. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes
but don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

52. Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
- Unknown

53. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

54. There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and
two, do it.
- Mario Cuomo

55. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
- Richard Bach

56. Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life
challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
- Dr. Michael Norwood

57. Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

58. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

59. Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
- Rosalind Russell

60. Cause Change & Lead
Accept Change & Survive
Resist Change & Die

- Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell

61. Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up!
You're right on track.
- Matthew Keith Groves

62. An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
- Bill Bernbach

63. An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
- Prescott

64. Life is "trying things to see if they work"
Ray Bradbury

65. If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.
Anonymous

66. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Dennis P. Kimbro

67. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of
which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

68. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

69. In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

70. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth
time I am right.
Albert Einstein

71. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Machiavelli.

72. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

73. "You are what you think about all day long." -- Dr. Robert Schuller

74. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"

75. Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he
has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

76. "Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

77. To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

78. If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
- J.M. Power

79. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a
day
- Robert Frost

80. Ive learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will
be better tomorrow.
- Maya Angelou

81. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James

82. When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
- Sydney Harris

83. Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans

84. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
- Robert Frost

85. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in
the face.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

86. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- Seneca

87. Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter Drucker.

88. The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
- Foster's Law

89. Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
- Joe Clark

90. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill

91. Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
- Elbert Hubbard

92. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

93. Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
- Swedish Proverb

94. If you're going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill

95. The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we
ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

96. Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
- Voltaire

97. Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and
bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with
a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882

98. There is no education like adversity.
- Disraeli

99. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

100. Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Author Unknown







Running a business is hard work, and it can be easy to get down or lose your motivation.
With that in mind, here are 111 quotes that I have appreciated. I hope you find them
insightful! I highlighted a few that stood out to me (and I threw in a few funny ones for good
measure).
If you know of any other good quotes please add them in the comments.
1. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be
without the strategy. Norman Schwarzkopf
2. A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. Unknown
3. You are not your resume, you are your work. Seth Godin
4. Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes. Henry Thoreau
5. One finds limits by pushing them. Herbert Simon
6. If you see a bandwagon, its too late. James Goldsmith
7. Business opportunities are like buses, theres always another one coming. Richard
Branson
8. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
9. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you dont do too many things
wrong. Warren Buffett
10. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves
strong. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda
11. Theres no shortage of remarkable ideas, whats missing is the will to execute them. Seth Godin
12. The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson
13. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
14. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
15. Change is not a threat, its an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
Seth Godin
16. Even if you are on the right track, Youll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
17. You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. Jim Rohn
18. Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well
lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look
well therefore to this day. Francis Gray
19. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of lifes coming attractions. Albert
Einstein
20. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to
do it. Dwight Eisenhower
21. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte
22. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.
Sr. Thomas Watson
23. Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try. Unknown
24. The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell. Andrew Carnegie
25. Whether you think you can or whether you think you cant, youre right! Henry
Ford
26. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson
27. We generate fears while we sit. We over come them by action. Fear is natures way of warning us
to get busy. Dr. Henry Link
28. People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want. Seth Godin
29. Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition in having put forth
the best within you. Henry J. Kaiser
30. Success is often achieved by those who dont know that failure is inevitable. Coco
Chanel
31. A man should never neglect his family for business. Walt Disney
32. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on
with improving your other innovations. Steve Jobs
33. The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his
competitors do. Roy L. Smith
34. Business is more exciting than any game. Lord Beaverbrook
35. The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand,
concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they
cant do. Dennis Waitley
36. Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Cyril Northcote
Parkinson/Parkinsons Law.
37. I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. Oprah Winfrey
38. Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death. Seth Godin
39. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. Unknown
40. My son is now an entrepreneur. Thats what youre called when you dont have a job. Ted
Turner
41. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a
dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. Henry Ford
42. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves
economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices
most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. Bill O Reilly
43. Please think about your legacy, because youre writing it every day. Gary Vaynerchuck
44. Victory goes to the player who makes the nexttolast mistake. Savielly
Grigorievitch Tartakower
45. I like thinking big. If youre going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. Donald
Trump
46. Surviving a failure gives you more selfconfidence. Failures are great learning tools but they
must be kept to a minimum. Jeffrey Immelt
47. To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. Johann Wolfgang
Von Goeth
48. Yesterdays home runs dont win todays games. Babe Ruth
49. The only way around is through. Robert Frost
50. The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of
many. John Naisbitt
51. The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. Its as simple as that. A lot of
people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow.
Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. Nolan Bushnell
52. You miss 100 percent of the shots you dont take Wayne Gretzky
53. Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules. Seth Godin
54. To the degree were not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have
over ourselves. Peter McWilliams
55. Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important
opportunities. Seth Godin
56. To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
George Kneller
57. Business in a combination of War and sport. Andre Maurois
58. To succeed You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to
inspire you. Tony Dorsett
59. Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. Oscar Wilde
60. All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle
61. Winning is not a sometime thing; its an all time thing. You dont win once in a while, you dont
do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so
is losing. Vince Lombardi
62. There is no security on the earth, there is only opportunity. General Douglas
MacArthur
63. Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. Unknown
64. Hire character. Train skill. Peter Schutz
65. For maximum attention, nothing beats a good mistake. Unknown
66. Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. John Ciardi
67. Dont worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, youll have
to ram them down peoples throats. Howard Aiken
68. It takes more than capital to swing business. Youve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by
Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. Ren Mulford Jr.
69. A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor. Unknown
70. The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you. Bette Midler
71. Your time is precious, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Steve Jobs
72. Only when the tide goes out do you discover whos been swimming naked. Warren Buffett
73. Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy. Jim Rohn
74. The NBA is never just a business. Its always business. Its always personal. All good businesses
are personal. The best businesses are very personal. Mark Cuban
75. Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people.
Not one. This is a deal breaker. Seth Godin
76. Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, its a lot easier to launch
work that matters. Seth Godin
77. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction
you choose. Dr. Seuss
78. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most
responsive to change. Charles Darwin
79. The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customers place. Orison
Swett Marden
80. To win without risk is to triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille
81. People dont believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often
believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. Seth Godin
82. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at
him. David Brinkley
83. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you dont
need to escape from. Seth Godin
84. I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Dont sit down and wait for
the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! C.J. Walker
85. People are best convinced by things they themselves discover. Ben Franklin
86. I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good
wages. Robert Bosch
87. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
88. Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole
life believing it is stupid Einstein
89. Do or do not. There is no try. Yoda
90. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates
91. Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. George Van Valkenburg
92. In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience
first; the cash will come later. Harold Geneen
93. Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it. Chinese Proverb
94. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And
powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be
translated into riches. Napoleon Hill
95. To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about
that business. J. Paul Getty
96. A consultant is someone who takes the watch off your wrist and tells you the time.
Unknown
97. The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. John Egan
98. If you would like to know the value of money, try to borrow some. Benjamin Franklin
99. If it really was a nobrainer to make it on your own in business thered be millions of nobrained,
harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out
their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business
plan. Bill Rancic
100. Get busy living or get busy dying. from the The Shawshank Redemption
101. Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the
view from the top so exhilarating. Denis Waitley
102. Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get
excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Zig Ziglar
103. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vidal Sassoon
104. Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. Unknown
105. The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to
not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. Debbi Fields
106. Are you a serial ideastarting person? The goal is to be an ideashipping
person. Seth Godin
107. The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, youre still a rat. Lilly Tomlin
108. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if youre not
frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. David
Rockefeller
109. If you work just for money, youll never make it, but if you love what youre doing and you
always put the customer first, success will be yours. Ray Kroc
110. Longrange planning works best in the short term. Doug Evelyn











































The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Edward Teller

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm
doing.
Wernher von Braun

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire
for truth.
Irving Langmuir

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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of
knowledge.
Carl Sagan

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Seven Deadly Sins

Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi