History

Looking at history is not always the best indicator of what will happen in the future.

--Ken Koenemann

Anger

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

--Francis Bacon, British philosopher and statesman

Selling

The first thing you are selling is yourself. If they don't like you, the sale is not going to happen.

--Rick Segel, author of "Retail Business Kit for Dummies"

Life

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.

--Louisa May Alcott, American writer

Self

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

--George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright

Rights

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

--Germaine Greer, Australian writer and feminist

Accomplishment

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

--Vince Lombardi, American football coach

Change

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James Baldwin

Excellence

Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.
- Lawrence M. Miller

Excellence

Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.
- Lawrence M. Miller

Harmony

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight.
- Jesse Jackson (b. 1941), U.S. clergyman, civil rights leader

Leadership

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
- Liu Shao-ch'i

Rules

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
- Katharine Hepburn

Fear

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Leadership

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.

-— Theodore Hesburgh, President of the University of Notre Dame

Entrepreneurs

[Y]our mirror is going to get sick of looking at you. Because if you are an entrepreneur you’re probably ugly.

--James Altucher, co-founder and CEO of 140Labs

Work

My role is not to make people work but to give them the right working conditions so that they will enjoy what they do.

--Ori Hadomi, CEO of Mazor Robotics

Strategy

Having a strategy in the first place is hard. Maintaining a strategy is even harder."

--Michael Porter, professor at Harvard Business School

Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs don't take defeat well, and we will invest valuable energy beating ourselves up because we failed to keep those promises we make to ourselves.

- Gladys Edmunds

Motivation

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

--Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker

Leadership

Leadership is all about putting the right conversations before the right people at the right time.

Harriette Thurber Rasmussen, Leadership Development Coach

Actions

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

--Albert Camus, French author, journalist and philosopher

Actions

Things don't turn up in this world unless somebody turns them up.

--James A. Garfield, 20th U.S. president

Fortune

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

--Francis Quarles, British Poet

Innovation

First you have the innovators, then the imitators and after that the idiots. I don’t know who said that, but I always try to be in the first line.

--Mark Cuban, Owner of the Dallas Mavericks

Business

In business there’s an inverse relationship between the length of a presentation and its value: The longer the presentation the less valuable the ideas and information.

--Jeff Haden

Ability

The ability to know what not to do or what to avoid can be priceless.

--Mark Evans, Principal with ME Consulting

Time

Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue."

--Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO

Achievement

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer

Talent

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size ... has ever surpassed my courage."

--Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter

Life

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

--Harrison Salisbury,American journalist

Wife

The greatest happiness in a man's life comes from a good wife, and the greatest hardship is from a bad one or no one!

Fear

Don't accept anything based in fear, only accept things based on love.

Fear

Fear tells you that you are a worm pretending to be a lion, but you are really a lion who can't realize that you aren't a worm.

Mistakes

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process."

--Shelby Foote, American historian and novelist

Entrepreneurs

Someone once asked me what it was like going out on my own as an entrepreneur. I told them it was like jumping out of an airplane with all the materials needed to build a parachute."

--Glen Blickenstaff, CEO of The Iron Door

Past

Many things in life make sense as we look back, not as we experience them. And the thing that goes wrong is often the very thing that leads to many other things going right.

Perseverance

Perseverance makes the crucial difference between success and failure. In the end, it’s how long we can keep going until success happens. It’s getting up one more time when we fall down :)