"Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't." ~ Unknown

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
- Victor Kiam

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started."
— David Allen: Management consultant, trainer, and author

"People keep looking outside themselves for the money. It's inside."
— Stephen Pierce: Internet marketer, author, speaker

Never give up. Learning from failure is an essential part of the entrepreneur's experience.
- Rachel Elnaugh

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from.
All that matters is where you are going."
— Brian Tracy: Self-help author, speaker, and lecturer

"The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit—a reputation and character."
— John D. Rockefeller: Was an industrialist and philanthropist

‎"It's what we do regularly -- every day, without fail -- that determines what we gain or lose." Coy Eklund

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
- Brian Tracy

"Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts."
— Benjamin Disraeli: Was a British prime minister, parliamentarian, and author

Find the things you like to do. Life is short, and it doesn't make sense if you don't love what you are doing.
- Eric Daniels

Leadership comes through respect, and a large part of respect is liking someone.
- Carol Leonard

"Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small."
— Tim Ferriss: Author, entrepreneur, and public speaker

If the business is going well it's nothing to do with you and if it's going badly then it's all your fault.
- Lord Levene

"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality."
— Earl Nightingale: Was a US motivational writer and author

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are,
you would never think a negative thought."
— Peace Pilgrim: Born Mildred Norman, was a peace activist and spiritual leader

"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."
— Denis Waitley: Motivational speaker and author

Success is down to perseverance, ability, skills and experience, but it is also about being given an opportunity.
- Leigh Clifford

If I had the choice of hiring someone with connections or someone with skills and talent, I'd go with the latter.
- Chip Goodyear

"First comes thought; then organization of that thought,
into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into
reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination."
— Napoleon Hill: Was a personal success author and lecturer

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
- Aristotle Onassis

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
- David Brinkley

"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life.
I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive."
— Joseph Campbell: Was a writer and lecturer on mythology

"Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake."
— Paramahansa Yogananda: Was an Indian yogi and guru

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.
- Alan Sugar

"My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen."
— Susan Powter: Motivational speaker, dietitian, personal trainer, author

In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.
- Warren Buffet

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey."
— Dr. Stephen Covey: Best-selling author and professor

We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are.
- Alan Ryan

"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is."
— Ram Dass: Spiritual Teacher

If there is a difference between you and, it may simple be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day.  If you want to learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you.
~ Warren Buffet

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

"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds."
— Dr. Wayne Dyer: Self-development author and speaker

"High expectations are the key to everything."
— Sam Walton: Was the founder of Wal-Mart corporation

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes: American writer and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark."
— Michelangelo: 15th-16th century Italian sculptor, painter, and architect

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
- Agha Hasan Abedi

"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: Supreme Court justice

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
- Stephen R. Covey

"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. It's the end you're after."
— Anthony Robbins: Motivational speaker and author

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it...; Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine."
- David Ogilvy

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."
— Lou Holtz: Author, motivational speaker and former football coach

"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."
— Jane Smiley: Pulitzer Prize—winning American novelist

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
— Jim Ryun: Former track athlete and politician

"The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero: Was a 1st-century BC Roman philosopher

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily."
— Zig Ziglar: Author and motivational speaker

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
- Albert Camus

People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice.
- Stephen Gregg

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
- Willa A. Foster

"Listen to your life. All moments are key moments."
— Frederick Buechner: Writer and theologian

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart."
— Helen Keller: Was a blind and deaf author and lecturer

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein: Was a theoretical physicist

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings--and put compensation as a carrier behind it--you almost don't have to manage them.
- Jack Welch

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.
- J.C. Penney

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.
- Daisy Bates

"You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself."
— Harvey Firestone: Tire executive

"Never let yesterday use up too much of today."
— Will Rogers: Humorist

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose. - E.M. Gray

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
— John D. Rockefeller: Was an American industrialist and philanthropist

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. - Steve Jobs

“The biggest lesson I have ever learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.” — Dale Carnegie

“Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.” — Napoleon Hill

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” — James Allen

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.”
— Brian Tracy

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." — Abraham Lincoln: 16th president of the United States

The most common cause of executive failure is inability or unwillingness to change with the demands of a new position. The executive who keeps on doing what he has done successfully before is almost bound to fail.- Peter Drucker

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance."
— Marie Curie: Was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and a two-time Nobel Prize winner

"The mind is the ground of everything."
— Thich Nhat Hanh: Buddhist monk, scholar, and peace activist

"A man should take away not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for thus superfluous acts will not follow after."
— Marcus Aurelius: Was a Roman emperor and philosopher

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
— John W. Gardner: Was the secretary of health, education and welfare

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.
- Kazuo Inamori

"Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action, and purpose."
— Lance Armstrong: 7-time winner of the Tour de France

"Life is adventure dare it."
~ Mother Teresa: Nobel Peace Prize Winner

"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."
— Brian Tracy: Self-help author and lecturer

Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.
- Bob Parsons

"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord."
— Earl Nightingale:

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.
- Thomas Watson, Sr.

"We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service."
— Earl Nightingale: Was a motivational speaker and author, a radio personality, and the co-founder of Nightingale-Conant

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."
— Earl Nightingale: Was a motivational speaker and author, a radio personality, and the co-founder of Nightingale-Conant

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
- David Sarnoff

"Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else."
— Brian Tracy: Self-help author and speaker

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
- Robert Bosch

"The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company; you own your career!"
— Earl Nightingale: Was a motivational speaker and author, a radio personality, and the co-founder of Nightingale-Conant

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
~ Ashley Montague

Hire character. Train skill.
- Peter Schutz

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."
— Albert Einstein: Was a theoretical physicist

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Harold Geneen

"In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else."
— Alison Rose Levy: Health journalist and coach

"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."
— Anthony Robbins: Self-help author and motivational speaker

"People think about what they don't want and attract more of the same."
— From the movie The Secret

"Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it."
— Jim Rohn: Was an entrepreneur, author, and speaker

"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming."
— Jim Rohn: Was an entrepreneur, author, and speaker