"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

-- Peter Drucker
"A company is only as good as the people it keeps."

-- Mary Kay Ash
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

-- Mark Twain
"I've learned that the biggest lessons came from my biggest mistakes."

-- Gurbaksh Chahal
"Radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clear-headed vision."

-- Gary Hamel
"Even if you stumble, you're still moving forward."

-- Anonymous
"Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude."

-- Richard Koch
"I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it."

-- Lee Iacocca
"Goals are like magnets. They'll attract the things that make them come true."

-- Tony Robbins
"I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now'and now is when you should do it."

-- Steve Mariucci
"The harder I work, the luckier I get."

-- Gary Player
"I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion'' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking."

-- Dan Pink
"Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!"

-- Steve Jobs
"What the mind can conceive, it can achieve."

-- Napoleon Hill
"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."

-- Warren Buffett
"The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work."

-- Vince Lombardi
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

-- Dale Carnegie
"Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

-- William Eardley
"Don't spend too much time planning, release early and often. Some things will work, others won't. Refine and move forward, and above all forget the money. Just make sure you love what you're doing."

-- Kevin Rose
"Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem' Problems are like landmarks of progress."

-- Scott Alexander
"Slowness to change usually means fear of the new."

-- Philip Crosby
"Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully."

-- Scott Alexander
"Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass."

-- Mark Cuban
"Don't be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product."

-- Eric Ries
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."

-- Howard Aiken
"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."

-- Warren Buffett
"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
"There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business; a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success."

-- Phil Knight
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily."

-- Zig Ziglar
"Without hustle, your talent will only get you so far."

-- Gary Vaynerchuk
"I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing."

-- Martha Stewart
"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have."

-- Timothy Ferriss
"If you never start something, you can never quit."

-- C.C. Chapman
"That's been one of my mantras'focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."

-- Steve Jobs
"A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship."

-- John D. Rockefeller
"I'm not a businessman'I'm a business, man!"

-- Jay Z
"A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets."

-- Li Ka-shing
"People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence."

-- Jack Canfield
"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
"One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company."

-- Kevin Plank
"In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It's no different in the financial realm."

-- Suze Orman
"You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing."

-- Guy Kawasaki
"Everyone has an idea. But it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea."

-- Jack Dorsey
"The key to this business is personal relationships."

-- Jerry Maguire
"Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need."

-- Seth Godin
"The man who does not work for the love of work , but only for money, is likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life."

-- Charles Schwab
"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."

-- Peter Drucker
"I see what keeps people young: work!"

-- Ted Turner
"There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it."

-- Warren Buffett
"Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need."

-- Seth Godin
"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."

-- Mark Zuckerberg
"Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business."

-- JW Marriott
"'Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

-- Pablo Picasso
"A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason."

-- Harold Geneen
"There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second."

-- Jeff Bezos
"Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for awhile."

-- Jack Welch
"Don't underestimate the other guy's greed."

-- from Scarface
"Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong."

-- Donald Porter
"The only way around is through."

-- Robert Frost
"In the world of internet customer service, it's important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away."

-- Doug Warner
"What gets measured, gets managed."

-- Peter Drucker
"Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating."

-- Denis Waitley
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

-- Theodore Roosevelt
"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large."

-- Henry Ford
"Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined."

-- Richard Koch
"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
"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it."

-- Irving Berlin
"Don't underestimate the other guy's greed."

-- from Scarface
"You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems."

-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right."

-- Dave Ramsey
"Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest."

-- Leo Babauta
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."

-- from The Empire Strikes Back
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now'and now is when you should do it."

-- Steve Mariucci
"The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead work toward being significant'and the success will naturally follow."

-- Oprah Winfrey
"The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success."

-- Henry Ward Beecher
"Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

-- W. Clement Stone
"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success."

-- Larry Ellison
"Now is the time to fix the next 10 years."

-- Jim Rohn
"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."

-- Stephen Covey
"An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made."

-- Daymond John
"If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today'"

-- Steve Jobs
"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."

-- Napoleon Hill
"Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel."

-- Rhonda Byrne
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