Topics:
Success
Decide
Getting Started
Success
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard
work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the
opportunities are just as great today as they ever were." --
David Rockefeller (1915 - )
"America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is
our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always
start over, that things can be made better." -- Anthony
Walton
"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It
is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
-- William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."
-- John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act."
-- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life
you have imagined." -- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their
environment and especially on their children than the unlived
life of the parent." -- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
"Men are born to succeed, not fail."-- Henry David
Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another
with no loss of enthusiasm" -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 -
1965)
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how
close they were to success when they gave up." -- Thomas A.
Edison (1847 - 1931)
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
the individual who can labor in freedom." -- Albert
Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950
"Lack of money is the root of all evil." -- George
Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great
enterprises." -- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
"You have to recognize when the right place and the right time
fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of
opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait."
--
Ellen Metcalf
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison (1847 -
1931)
"This brings us to the definition of insanity: doing the same
thing over and over and expecting a different result [1]"
[1] Rita Mae Brown, Starting from Scratch: A Different
Kind of Writer's Manual. New York: Bantam Books, 1988.
"Insanity", said Rudyard Kipling, "is doing the
same thing over and over and expecting different results".
"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance."
-- Attributed to both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)
Decide!
"Decide
what you want, decide
what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to
work." -- H. L. Hunt
"The possibilities are numerous once we
decide to act and not react."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious,
than to be able to decide."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
"The
first step towards getting somewhere is to
decide that you are not going to
stay where you are."
-- Chauncey Depew
"To be successful, you must
decide exactly what you want to
accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it." -- Bunker Hunt
" The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and
doing something. It's 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" -- Robert Browning
Getting Started
"What do you really, really want in life? What
can you do today to begin achieving it?" -– Brian Tracy
"Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person."
-– Mother Theresa
"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."
-– Robert
Schuller
"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." -– John Wooden
