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