By Renee Martin, co-author "The Risk Takers: 16 Women and Men Share Their Entrepreneurial Strategies for Success"
Few things can rattle your world more than the loss of a job. But faced with the resultant soul-searching, some recent pink-slip recipients are refusing to be casualties of the latest recession. Instead of quietly joining the ranks of the unemployed, they're resolving to seize control over their career and become their own boss. They're pursuing an entrepreneurial dream.
Is launching a business today a high-stakes risk? Of course. But it's never been easy to build a successful business, in any era or in any economy.
The right business idea at the right time can overcome all manner of obstacles. An ordinary person today still has the potential to catapult a startup company into an industry leader. But reaching that goal requires tireless commitment and sound business strategies.
Here are 10 broad strategies that were used to build multimillion-dollar (in some cases, multibillion-dollar) businesses, taken from the entrepreneurs profiled in my book "The Risk Takers: 16 Women and Men Share Their Entrepreneurial Strategies for Success."
1. Go on a treasure hunt and find an underserved niche
Identify and then cater to the particular needs of a market niche that competitors have neglected or ignored. Develop a specialty in which your business clearly excels. Remember, even a huge multibillion-dollar corporation can't offer everything to everyone. Many niches are too small for them to consider.
2. Spot a new trend and pounce
Look for emerging consumer needs and desires arising from a shift in cultural, economic or technological trends that signal new market opportunities. Act quickly. Don't be tentative.
3. Just start!
Stop the excuses. The "perfect" time for a business launch will never present itself. Don't give would-be competitors the opportunity to beat you to the punch. Get moving. Set short-term goals and deadlines that bring you closer to opening for business.
4. Buck the conventional wisdom
Ignore those who say, "It won't work" or "It's never been done that way." Veer away from established formulas and ways of thinking. Look at so-called industry best practices with a hypercritical eye. Dissect them, slice and dice them, contemplate different "what if" scenarios.
5. Exploit your competitors' weakness and make it your strength
Take a critical look at your competition from the perspective of a customer. Listen closely to the needs and complaints of prospective customers during sales calls. This will help identify competitor vulnerabilities and weaknesses. Find ways to eliminate such deficiencies in your own customer service and products, then go a step further and make sure you excel in those areas.
6. Hit 'em where they ain't
Set your sights on areas that your competitors have neglected or ignored. Learn to anticipate new areas where there might be a demand for your services and position your business to be there ahead of your competitors.
7. Save your bucks and get noticed without expensive advertising
Get your creative juices percolating to come up with ways to expose your brand to the masses. Don't be shy, be bold. Chutzpah often works. Brainstorm with colleagues, friends and family. Have a little fun with this strategy.
8. Trust your gut
Develop and learn to use your intuitive powers. They are valuable business skills, particularly when you're about to enter uncharted waters and everyone is telling you to play it safe. When the pressure is high and chaos threatens, keep your composure and rely on your gut-level instincts.
9. Never let adversity or failure defeat you
Don't accept the limits others or circumstances place on you. The ranks of successful entrepreneurs are filled with men and women who refused to stop believing in themselves. As an entrepreneur, you'll surely experience stressful moments that will test your faith. Just remember, the antidotes are persistence and resiliency. Believe in your business idea and in your own commitment to seeing your business succeed.
10. Never stop reinventing your company
Continually look for ways to introduce new products and services for existing customers and for newly identified market niches. Think of complacency as a genuine threat to your long-term bottom line. Never let your guard down.
Few things can rattle your world more than the loss of a job. But faced with the resultant soul-searching, some recent pink-slip recipients are refusing to be casualties of the latest recession. Instead of quietly joining the ranks of the unemployed, they're resolving to seize control over their career and become their own boss. They're pursuing an entrepreneurial dream.
Is launching a business today a high-stakes risk? Of course. But it's never been easy to build a successful business, in any era or in any economy.
The right business idea at the right time can overcome all manner of obstacles. An ordinary person today still has the potential to catapult a startup company into an industry leader. But reaching that goal requires tireless commitment and sound business strategies.
Here are 10 broad strategies that were used to build multimillion-dollar (in some cases, multibillion-dollar) businesses, taken from the entrepreneurs profiled in my book "The Risk Takers: 16 Women and Men Share Their Entrepreneurial Strategies for Success."
1. Go on a treasure hunt and find an underserved niche
Identify and then cater to the particular needs of a market niche that competitors have neglected or ignored. Develop a specialty in which your business clearly excels. Remember, even a huge multibillion-dollar corporation can't offer everything to everyone. Many niches are too small for them to consider.
2. Spot a new trend and pounce
Look for emerging consumer needs and desires arising from a shift in cultural, economic or technological trends that signal new market opportunities. Act quickly. Don't be tentative.
3. Just start!
Stop the excuses. The "perfect" time for a business launch will never present itself. Don't give would-be competitors the opportunity to beat you to the punch. Get moving. Set short-term goals and deadlines that bring you closer to opening for business.
4. Buck the conventional wisdom
Ignore those who say, "It won't work" or "It's never been done that way." Veer away from established formulas and ways of thinking. Look at so-called industry best practices with a hypercritical eye. Dissect them, slice and dice them, contemplate different "what if" scenarios.
5. Exploit your competitors' weakness and make it your strength
Take a critical look at your competition from the perspective of a customer. Listen closely to the needs and complaints of prospective customers during sales calls. This will help identify competitor vulnerabilities and weaknesses. Find ways to eliminate such deficiencies in your own customer service and products, then go a step further and make sure you excel in those areas.
6. Hit 'em where they ain't
Set your sights on areas that your competitors have neglected or ignored. Learn to anticipate new areas where there might be a demand for your services and position your business to be there ahead of your competitors.
7. Save your bucks and get noticed without expensive advertising
Get your creative juices percolating to come up with ways to expose your brand to the masses. Don't be shy, be bold. Chutzpah often works. Brainstorm with colleagues, friends and family. Have a little fun with this strategy.
8. Trust your gut
Develop and learn to use your intuitive powers. They are valuable business skills, particularly when you're about to enter uncharted waters and everyone is telling you to play it safe. When the pressure is high and chaos threatens, keep your composure and rely on your gut-level instincts.
9. Never let adversity or failure defeat you
Don't accept the limits others or circumstances place on you. The ranks of successful entrepreneurs are filled with men and women who refused to stop believing in themselves. As an entrepreneur, you'll surely experience stressful moments that will test your faith. Just remember, the antidotes are persistence and resiliency. Believe in your business idea and in your own commitment to seeing your business succeed.
10. Never stop reinventing your company
Continually look for ways to introduce new products and services for existing customers and for newly identified market niches. Think of complacency as a genuine threat to your long-term bottom line. Never let your guard down.
Have you ever felt like life is getting you down, relationship is falling apart, is a drag to even go to work and that nothing seem to go right and all the odds are stack against you people are against you and worse you put a blame on god. Your mind started to doubt your true potential & abilities, your body aches just the thought of getting up. Motivation and goal setting is not part of your vocabulary, heck never crosses your mind. You are at the point of giving up, not only about job, sport, health, relationship, but the game of life.
Well, we all had these moments at some point of our lives, where everything seem to be rolling in a snow ball effect and stacked up so great that our life will change forever. Now, this is the moment of truth. Martin Luther King Jr. once said “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” And it is in this moment that change must be made. What separate a true champion from the other is how he/she decides view the event; that life meant to be enjoy not the circumstances dictate one's life, and to move forward and charter their own path, and how they come out on top using the event as a motivation. Meanwhile others live in despair. Do you want to live your life in despair, unhappy and mediocrity? Or do you want to choose to live the life of a champion?
I’ve made this decision to live my life to the fullest and charter my own course about 3 years ago, while aimlessly going about schooling and getting a doctorate degree, I was away from home and family, school took a toll on my health, well being, financial and my only support from my relationship of 5 years with my girl friend felt apart, I was depressed and the last straw came when the dean told me that my performance weren’t cutting it to move on to my final year and they asked me to withdraw my enrollment, a business way of saying, you are done. This event put me in a great state of depression, self doubt and hate life and everything in between and that my world is over and nothing can fix it. Now I could easily give up, some people do, but it is my faith, my mentors and that it took me a year to finally found out what it is that I really want in life, what my purpose for life, what is it that enjoy doing in life. Because of my aimlessly drifting in all direction and did not really dedicate time for self mastery and what my true passion in life. And, after self-discovery, and the choices that I’ve made, I am now very passionate about life, love life and enjoy the process of discovery, the excitment and best yet each day bring me closer toward my ultimate goal.
I am still a work in progress, but I truly believe that by focusing on my goals I will inevitably move closer to achieve that ultimate passion in life. I charter my own course and will be a champion in the game of life.
It is my sincere hope that somehow to inspire you to find your passion and charter your own course. Ultimately it is up to you to make that choice and be a champion in all the things that you do.
Well, we all had these moments at some point of our lives, where everything seem to be rolling in a snow ball effect and stacked up so great that our life will change forever. Now, this is the moment of truth. Martin Luther King Jr. once said “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” And it is in this moment that change must be made. What separate a true champion from the other is how he/she decides view the event; that life meant to be enjoy not the circumstances dictate one's life, and to move forward and charter their own path, and how they come out on top using the event as a motivation. Meanwhile others live in despair. Do you want to live your life in despair, unhappy and mediocrity? Or do you want to choose to live the life of a champion?
I’ve made this decision to live my life to the fullest and charter my own course about 3 years ago, while aimlessly going about schooling and getting a doctorate degree, I was away from home and family, school took a toll on my health, well being, financial and my only support from my relationship of 5 years with my girl friend felt apart, I was depressed and the last straw came when the dean told me that my performance weren’t cutting it to move on to my final year and they asked me to withdraw my enrollment, a business way of saying, you are done. This event put me in a great state of depression, self doubt and hate life and everything in between and that my world is over and nothing can fix it. Now I could easily give up, some people do, but it is my faith, my mentors and that it took me a year to finally found out what it is that I really want in life, what my purpose for life, what is it that enjoy doing in life. Because of my aimlessly drifting in all direction and did not really dedicate time for self mastery and what my true passion in life. And, after self-discovery, and the choices that I’ve made, I am now very passionate about life, love life and enjoy the process of discovery, the excitment and best yet each day bring me closer toward my ultimate goal.
I am still a work in progress, but I truly believe that by focusing on my goals I will inevitably move closer to achieve that ultimate passion in life. I charter my own course and will be a champion in the game of life.
It is my sincere hope that somehow to inspire you to find your passion and charter your own course. Ultimately it is up to you to make that choice and be a champion in all the things that you do.
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain
Ideas are the beginning of all achievements.
A goal is not always meant to be reach, it often serves simply as something to aim for.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
Using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation.
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.
I m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not is this world to live up to mine.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.
Seek to understand the root. It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all it’s blossoming.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do
If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person, if you want to understand the truth in marital arts, to see any opponent clearly, you must throw away the notion of styles or schools, prejudices, likes and dislikes, and so forth. Then, your mind will cease all conflict and come to rest. In this silence, you will see totally and freshly.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
To realize freedom, the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness. Watch, but don’t stop and interpret, “ I am free”- then you’re living in a memory of something that has gone. To understand and live now, everything of yesterday must die.
A conditioned mind is never a free mind. Conditioning limit’s a person within the framework of a particular system.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the old you derive security; from the new, you gain the flow.
Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain
Ideas are the beginning of all achievements.
A goal is not always meant to be reach, it often serves simply as something to aim for.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
Using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation.
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.
I m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not is this world to live up to mine.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.
Seek to understand the root. It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all it’s blossoming.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do
If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person, if you want to understand the truth in marital arts, to see any opponent clearly, you must throw away the notion of styles or schools, prejudices, likes and dislikes, and so forth. Then, your mind will cease all conflict and come to rest. In this silence, you will see totally and freshly.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
To realize freedom, the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness. Watch, but don’t stop and interpret, “ I am free”- then you’re living in a memory of something that has gone. To understand and live now, everything of yesterday must die.
A conditioned mind is never a free mind. Conditioning limit’s a person within the framework of a particular system.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the old you derive security; from the new, you gain the flow.
1. Have a purpose for what you do
Most people would say, I go to work and pay my bills. Well if that your purpose or what God put you on this earth for than more power to you, but most people don't like their job and worse yet hate it. So first of, identify what your purpose of why you are put on this planet, and when you do, you will realize your true potential. Life is way too short to sit and wish I would of done that or this. So identify your purpose and when you do you have maximum level of motivation.
2. Have a passion for what you do.
This is shocking but yet simple. If you don’t like your current state or condition or job then get out. Do something different, what do you want to do? You have a choice of what you want to do and with passion all things are possible.
3. Be a non stop continuous learning machine.
Most people think after school, you close the book and stop learning. They couldn't be more dead wrong. Life is about learning, and stagnation is no good. If you don’t learn some is and will leave you in the dust. So be an eager and learning machine, keep up with the industry, if you are not growing you are slowing.
4. Be a mentor or have a mentor
Mentor will inspire you and get you to reach the level where you never though you are capable. And be a mentor to someone will give you the opportunity to give back and make a difference in others.
5. Know what you get motivated or stimulated.
What are the things get you motivated and things that don’t and keep doing the things that fired you up and stay away from things that don’t. It can be your surrounding, people that you call friends, that seem to have endless energy, be their friends will get you motivated, and vice versa stay away from Debbie Downer. Of course, not everyday is a good day, so my plan to you is write a bad day prescription, why not, when we are sick we have med prescription. So a write yourself a bad day prescription( strategy) when you are in a good frame of mind. So when you are having a bad day pull it out and follow it. Again, you control your environment, positive or negative it is your choice.
6. Reward yourself for achievement
Give yourself something if you made it. If you lose weight, then go show it off at the vacation beach in the Bahamas. Why not? If not you are stealing yourself off in your subconscious mind. working and working and nothing.. So enjoy your earning your achievement. It doesn’t have to be money or anything, but do reward yourself as a positive reinforcement and this will lead to phenomenal success as you train your mindset. “enjoy the fruit of your labor”
7. Practice long term thinking, thinking step ahead..
Long term plan, this is a critical piece of motivation. 1 month, 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years plan and longer.
Here is a great question ,if you do everything accord to your plan. Exactly and become a millionaire would you do? Then why aren’t you doing it?
You see people have passion, but the problem is that it will be short live, they will soon lose that passion within months if not sooner. You see, passion has to be trained and up keep like all things and to do this you have to have a plan and train your mind to overcome this by mastering your state of mind.
Most people would say, I go to work and pay my bills. Well if that your purpose or what God put you on this earth for than more power to you, but most people don't like their job and worse yet hate it. So first of, identify what your purpose of why you are put on this planet, and when you do, you will realize your true potential. Life is way too short to sit and wish I would of done that or this. So identify your purpose and when you do you have maximum level of motivation.
2. Have a passion for what you do.
This is shocking but yet simple. If you don’t like your current state or condition or job then get out. Do something different, what do you want to do? You have a choice of what you want to do and with passion all things are possible.
3. Be a non stop continuous learning machine.
Most people think after school, you close the book and stop learning. They couldn't be more dead wrong. Life is about learning, and stagnation is no good. If you don’t learn some is and will leave you in the dust. So be an eager and learning machine, keep up with the industry, if you are not growing you are slowing.
4. Be a mentor or have a mentor
Mentor will inspire you and get you to reach the level where you never though you are capable. And be a mentor to someone will give you the opportunity to give back and make a difference in others.
5. Know what you get motivated or stimulated.
What are the things get you motivated and things that don’t and keep doing the things that fired you up and stay away from things that don’t. It can be your surrounding, people that you call friends, that seem to have endless energy, be their friends will get you motivated, and vice versa stay away from Debbie Downer. Of course, not everyday is a good day, so my plan to you is write a bad day prescription, why not, when we are sick we have med prescription. So a write yourself a bad day prescription( strategy) when you are in a good frame of mind. So when you are having a bad day pull it out and follow it. Again, you control your environment, positive or negative it is your choice.
6. Reward yourself for achievement
Give yourself something if you made it. If you lose weight, then go show it off at the vacation beach in the Bahamas. Why not? If not you are stealing yourself off in your subconscious mind. working and working and nothing.. So enjoy your earning your achievement. It doesn’t have to be money or anything, but do reward yourself as a positive reinforcement and this will lead to phenomenal success as you train your mindset. “enjoy the fruit of your labor”
7. Practice long term thinking, thinking step ahead..
Long term plan, this is a critical piece of motivation. 1 month, 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years plan and longer.
Here is a great question ,if you do everything accord to your plan. Exactly and become a millionaire would you do? Then why aren’t you doing it?
You see people have passion, but the problem is that it will be short live, they will soon lose that passion within months if not sooner. You see, passion has to be trained and up keep like all things and to do this you have to have a plan and train your mind to overcome this by mastering your state of mind.
To get there you have to be focused, set ultimate goals, sacrifice of all the distractions that will delay you from your ultimate goals. It's simple to say then done. I am still a student at this, but you know what, it is more fun to know what you want to do then be stressed of what you are not doing.
my own goal setting/ check list
Crossfit fitness coach (1month)
and warehouse gym (1 year)
I wrote a posted note on my laptop to remind myself
"do at least one thing today to get me closer to my ultimate goal, warehouse gym"
Things i have done the past 2 months to get me closer to ultimate goal
I bought enough equipments to have my own studio or garage gym ( now i started with just a barbell and every week I would get a different equipment, some are free others are made or bought cheap on CL)
I have now:
2 barbells,1 curl bars
1 squat cage w/ pullups/rings
500 lbs of Oly metal plates
3 jump ropes
set of dumbbells ( 10-40lbs)
100 squarefeet of mats
1 bench
1 jump box
1 big tractor tire
2 white boards
1 sledgehammer
I just paid the Crossfit course and certification in 3 weeks
To fund my operation i sold some stuff i don’t need on CL and ebay, I also worked 80 hours a week, it can be difficult but you know what if you see the end result nothing can stop you.
my own goal setting/ check list
Crossfit fitness coach (1month)
and warehouse gym (1 year)
I wrote a posted note on my laptop to remind myself
"do at least one thing today to get me closer to my ultimate goal, warehouse gym"
Things i have done the past 2 months to get me closer to ultimate goal
I bought enough equipments to have my own studio or garage gym ( now i started with just a barbell and every week I would get a different equipment, some are free others are made or bought cheap on CL)
I have now:
2 barbells,1 curl bars
1 squat cage w/ pullups/rings
500 lbs of Oly metal plates
3 jump ropes
set of dumbbells ( 10-40lbs)
100 squarefeet of mats
1 bench
1 jump box
1 big tractor tire
2 white boards
1 sledgehammer
I just paid the Crossfit course and certification in 3 weeks
To fund my operation i sold some stuff i don’t need on CL and ebay, I also worked 80 hours a week, it can be difficult but you know what if you see the end result nothing can stop you.
Goal setting is probably one of the most important aspect of our lives to move us closer to where we want to go and achieve what we really want to achieve, whether it's health, relationship or career choices. You see, we live in world of chaos, all types of things are happening, our mind are bombarded with all kinds of senses, not to mention the media, internet and so on and so forth. All this is a huge distractions to us, we can only take in so much and do so much, and even worse if we don't have a plan or keep track of what we doing and the end result we are running around and doing things that are pointless and far from what we want in life.
You see, I used to be this way, indecisive, out of focus and started from my days in college, I studied one thing and moved on to the next, changed my majors 6 times, and ultimately graduated with 2 degrees, 2 minors, and going to graduate school with something completely different. And when that didn't pan out, instead of refocus, I do what's comfortable at the time, by going back to school and got myself another degree. I know some of people may have to go back to school to do what they love to do, so power to them, but for me it is not the case. All in all I pretty much wasted not only money but worse almost 10 years of my life studying and not sure what I wanted in life. Sure I have degrees to show for, but am I happy with it and do what I enjoy doing? The answer is no, I don't want to work a 9 to 5 job and don't like to be stagnate with no growth and happiness, sure it is comfortable and routine, yes we can focus on the good work we did, but do we get compensated in our self values? But ultimately the end result is that have I done enough in this life that will set me free? Now that's a question.
I once volunteered at a nursing facility in order to get enought hour to get me into nursing school. There were lots of old folks, as you get to know them and talk to them about life. Almost all of them would tell you that if they would have a second chance in life, that they wish they could do more, live more and better yet do what they love to do. Now, do you want to be old and have those same regrets before you die? Well, of course not. I took this message and I started to look deep in my own self, do I want to work for the rest of my life as 9-5er and look back on life and ask the question, what if?
This started my new way of thinking, so I asked myself these simple questions. What do I love to do? Better yet, if I have a million dollar would I still continue doing what I am doing. If you say yes, then chances are this is your calling or your passion. So my passion, my calling, is to become a fitness coach, helping people to reach their own ultimate well being and eventually have my own warehouse gym. Here is my warehouse gym check list.
To get there you have to be focused, set ultimate goals, sacrificed of all the distractions that will delay you from your ultimate goals. It's simple say then done. I am still a student at this, but because of it is more fun to know what you want to do then be stressed of what you are not doing.
As I m writing this, I know I am still a long way, but hopefully one year doesn't seem to far. Even though I am not there yet, but I am more happy than I have ever been and more focus than I have ever dreamt. So my focus will forge me on. I know there are lots of people that talked about their life experiences after the fact that they've already done it. I hope that one day I can be like them, but for now, I am a working product of my own progression. And love every moment of it. There are of course doubts in my mind, mostly came from family and friends, but when ask, if I truly honest with myself, am I happy? The answer is yes, and all that fear or uncertainties are just part of life. And that's what make life worth living.
I've made some sacrifices to move me forward toward my ultimate goals. However, there are things that you don't want to sacrifice to reach your goals; your integrity, your loyalty, your friendship, your family and your faith. Because without that there are no accountabilities or the reflection of who you really are.
It is my hope to inspire you to do what you set out to do and only you can set you free. Be free my friend for it the ultimate answer to life.
You see, I used to be this way, indecisive, out of focus and started from my days in college, I studied one thing and moved on to the next, changed my majors 6 times, and ultimately graduated with 2 degrees, 2 minors, and going to graduate school with something completely different. And when that didn't pan out, instead of refocus, I do what's comfortable at the time, by going back to school and got myself another degree. I know some of people may have to go back to school to do what they love to do, so power to them, but for me it is not the case. All in all I pretty much wasted not only money but worse almost 10 years of my life studying and not sure what I wanted in life. Sure I have degrees to show for, but am I happy with it and do what I enjoy doing? The answer is no, I don't want to work a 9 to 5 job and don't like to be stagnate with no growth and happiness, sure it is comfortable and routine, yes we can focus on the good work we did, but do we get compensated in our self values? But ultimately the end result is that have I done enough in this life that will set me free? Now that's a question.
I once volunteered at a nursing facility in order to get enought hour to get me into nursing school. There were lots of old folks, as you get to know them and talk to them about life. Almost all of them would tell you that if they would have a second chance in life, that they wish they could do more, live more and better yet do what they love to do. Now, do you want to be old and have those same regrets before you die? Well, of course not. I took this message and I started to look deep in my own self, do I want to work for the rest of my life as 9-5er and look back on life and ask the question, what if?
This started my new way of thinking, so I asked myself these simple questions. What do I love to do? Better yet, if I have a million dollar would I still continue doing what I am doing. If you say yes, then chances are this is your calling or your passion. So my passion, my calling, is to become a fitness coach, helping people to reach their own ultimate well being and eventually have my own warehouse gym. Here is my warehouse gym check list.
To get there you have to be focused, set ultimate goals, sacrificed of all the distractions that will delay you from your ultimate goals. It's simple say then done. I am still a student at this, but because of it is more fun to know what you want to do then be stressed of what you are not doing.
As I m writing this, I know I am still a long way, but hopefully one year doesn't seem to far. Even though I am not there yet, but I am more happy than I have ever been and more focus than I have ever dreamt. So my focus will forge me on. I know there are lots of people that talked about their life experiences after the fact that they've already done it. I hope that one day I can be like them, but for now, I am a working product of my own progression. And love every moment of it. There are of course doubts in my mind, mostly came from family and friends, but when ask, if I truly honest with myself, am I happy? The answer is yes, and all that fear or uncertainties are just part of life. And that's what make life worth living.
I've made some sacrifices to move me forward toward my ultimate goals. However, there are things that you don't want to sacrifice to reach your goals; your integrity, your loyalty, your friendship, your family and your faith. Because without that there are no accountabilities or the reflection of who you really are.
It is my hope to inspire you to do what you set out to do and only you can set you free. Be free my friend for it the ultimate answer to life.
I am a huge fan of motivational quotes, it is in not only uplifting but it inspiring. So let these quotes inspire you to do what you set out to do. Becuase i truly believe that we all have a purpose and to find that purpose is the key of life.
Complete Quote List
Author Quote
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Peter 3:5 For this they are willingly ignorant of... the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Albert Einstein Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.
Albert Einstein Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.
Albert Einstein At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
Albert Einstein No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Aldous Huxley As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
Aldous Huxley A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude.
Aldous Huxley The ends cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced
Alec Bourne It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Angie Fenimore Life's supposed to be hard. We can't skip over the hard parts. We must earn what we receive.
Anonymous Knowledge without work is dangerous
Anonymous The best slave is the slave who thinks he is free, and the greatest fool is the fool who thinks he is a wise man.
Aristotle I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Aristotle What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Ben Schoeffler If you are confident in your beliefs then why are you getting upset?
Betty Eadie There is a fullness of the gospel, but most people will not attain it here. In order to grasp this truth, we need to listen to the Spirit and let go of our egos.
Betty Eadie Whatever we become here in mortality is meaningless unless it is done for the benefit of others.
Betty Eadie We are here to have love for every person born on earth. Their earthly form might be black, yellow, brown, handsome, ugly, thin, fat, wealthy, poor, intelligent, or ignorant, but we are not to judge by these appearances. Each spirit has the capacity to be filled with love and eternal energy.
Bill Tytla It is too limiting to copy someone else
Bruce Lee The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all.
Bruce Lee If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Bruce Lee All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Clint McGee Small minds discuss other people, average minds discuss events, and excellent minds discuss ideas.
CRT:1:12 Creation does not explain itself; under the Law, it cannot do so; its secrets have to be unraveled by the created.
CRT:1:13 All things are finite. An unaccomplishable purpose would be eternal frustration, and therefore, the universe being created purposefully it must have an objective.
CRT:2:13 What you know to be good, seek for and it shall be found.
CRT:2:2 Without substance, the Spirit of God was awake, but entering substance, it slept.
CRT:2:5 Had man not been created, who would have known God's wisdom and power?
Dale Carnegie The principles taught in this book will work only when they come from the heart. I am not advocating a bag of tricks. I am talking about a new way of life.
Dale Carnigie You can't win an argument
Dhammapada Do not disregard merit, saying, "It will not come nigh unto me"; by the falling of drops even a water-jar is filled, likewise the wise man, gathering little by little, fills himself with good.
Dhammapada Do not disregard evil, saying, "It will not come nigh unto me", by the falling of drops even a water-jar is filled, likewise the fool, gathering little by little, fills himself with evil.
Dhammapada 19 Even if he is fond of quoting appropriate texts, the thoughtless man who does not put them into practice himself is like cowherd counting other people's cows, not a partner in the Holy Life.
Dhammapada 20 Even if he does not quote appropriate texts much, if he follows the principles of the Teaching by getting rid of greed, hatred and delusion, deep of insight and with a mind free from attachment, not clinging to anything in this world or the next - that man is a partner in the Holy Life.
Dhammapada 41 Before long this body will be lying on the ground, discarded and unconscious, like a useless bit of wood.
Dhammapada 63 A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.
Dhammapada 65 Even if a man of intelligence lives with a wise man only for a moment, he will immediately recognise the truth, like one's tongue recognises the flavour of the soup.
Dhammapada 66 Stupid fools go through life as their own enemies, doing evil deeds which have bitter consequences.
Dhammapada 77 If a man disciplines, instructs and restrains them from what is not right, he will be dear to the good, and disliked by the bad.
Dhammapada 81 Like a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so the wise are not moved by praise or blame.
Donald Trump Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Donald Trump Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.
Eli If You Wait For Results There Won't Be Any
Eric Jordan Let the world be as it is
Eric Jordan What is taught in schools has already been done a thousand times over, and it is regurgitated on a daily basis. In order to create something truly unique, you must look within yourself, as that is only where unique ideas can come from. None of us are the same, and so what you create can never be the same as anyone else's.
Fergy Why do you want to memorize how I did this action? I may do it different next time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson
Fred Moore I have reached everything I want, and I'm only twenty-four. Now what do I do?
General George S. Patton If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.
Genesis 18:14 Is there anything too hard for the Lord?
George Carlin I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
George Washington Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
Glenn Kimball Ask 10 people if you should start a new business. 10 out of 10 of them will say NO.
Henry Ford It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Holyoak 1990 If you would like to excel at a profession or a mental skill, plan on adding to your knowledge every day
Howard Storm God wants us to do what we want to do. That means making choices - and there isn't necessarily any right choice. There is a spectrum of possibilities, and we should make the best choice from those possibilities. If we do that, we will receive help from the Other Side.
J. R. R. Tolkien Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
Jackdeth Try, fail, try again, fail even worse, try again, score!
James 4:4 Don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God?
James Allen The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn
Jeremy Shoemaker I spend maybe 2-5% of my time maintaining what I have and the rest of the time trying to grow.
Jesus This soul needs to follow another soul in whom the Spirit of life dwells, because she is saved through the Spirit. Then she will never be thrust into flesh again.
Jesus Watch and pray that you may not be born in the flesh, but that you may leave the bitter bondage of this life.
Jesus Let one who seeks not stop seeking until one finds. When one finds, one will be disturbed. When one is disturbed, one will be amazed, and will reign over all.
Jesus Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human.
Jesus This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away.
Jesus Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Jesus Those who know all, but are lacking in themselves, are utterly lacking.
Jesus Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
Jesus Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Jesus Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Jesus Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Jesus What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?
Jesus The kingdom of heaven is spread out across the earth, only people don't see it.
Jesus There are those who derive pleasure in being what they are not, but as their hair turns grey, they suffer sorrow and frustration. Be ever true to yourselves and to your natures.
Jesus Justice is not a thing of the time. Though the mills of God grind slowly, they grind to perfection. Life itself metes out justice. The justice of God adjusts the injustice of men. Were this not so, I would not have come.
Jesus Even the least among you can do all that I have done, and greater things.
Jesus Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Jesus The kingdom of God is within you.
Jesus He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city.
Jesus Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Jesus - Gospel of Thomas His followers said to him, 'When will the rest for the dead take place, and when will the new world come?' He said to them, 'What you look for has come, but you do not know it.'
Jesus - Gospel of Thomas 28 I took my stand in the midst of the world, and in flesh I appeared to them. I found them all drunk, and I did not find any of them thirsty. My soul ached for the children of humanity, because they are blind in their hearts and do not see, for they came into the world empty, and they also seek to depart from the world empty. But meanwhile they are drunk. When they shake off their wine, then they will change their ways.
Jim Buckmaster We are not so much anti-capitalist (...) We're fortunate enough to have built a very healthy business, even though we haven't attempted to. All we have done is stop short of trying to become insanely wealthy. We have met billionaires and it sounds funny but it's not necessarily a bed of roses to have that kind of money.
Jim Buckmaster Get something out there. Do it, even if it isn't perfect.
Job 1:21 Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart.
John 14:6 I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John D. Rockefeller I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
John D. Rockefeller I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. Rockefeller A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
John D. Rockefeller If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John D. Rockefeller It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
John D. Rockefeller The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
Luke 8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Manly P Hall Always trust a person looking for the truth, don't ever trust the one who's found it.
Manowar Nothing is as bad as it seems
Marcus Aurelius Wherever life is possible, it is possible to live in the right way. What if you live in a palace? Then it is possible to live in a palace the right way.
Marcus Aurelius None can force me to do wrong against my will
Marcus Tullius Cicero Wise men are instructed by reason;
Men of less understanding, by experience;
The most ignorant, by necessity;
The beasts by nature.
Mark Twain Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover
Mark Twain Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Marvin Jones Living without reflecting is like eating without digesting
Michael Jordan I've never been afraid to fail.
Michael Jordan Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
Michael Jordan I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Michael Jordan My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Michael Jordan Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.
Michael Jordan I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
Michael Jordan I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
Michael Jordan I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michelangelo Buonarroti The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.
Moraney It is not so much what you believe in, but why you believe it
MPR:13:3 Beware the weakness of indecision, for a bad decision is better than no decision at all.
MPR:13:3 Beware of irresolution; better is it to journey along the wrong path than never to start.
MPR:32:11 He who leads to victory is great, but he who can lead in defeat is still greater.
MPR:32:8 The arrogant man, however great may be his power, is less powerful because of his arrogance.
MPR:34:15 God is beyond his comprehension, but Truth is not; it alone is the path towards the fulfillment of the destiny of man.
MPR:34:20 Weakling and fool, are not the foes made by Truth better than the friends made by falsehood?
MPR:38:6 The possessions of a greedy man are never secure, for his avariciousness will destroy that, which his greed has gathered.
MPR:9:5 To help the weak is good but of lesser importance than to attack their oppressor.
Nikola Tesla Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Nikola Tesla My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.
Numbers 12:6-8 When a prophet of the Lord is among you, I reveal myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house. With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Oscar Wilde Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Paul Harvey In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these.
Peter Lynch The secret to his success is that he never went to business school.
Peter Lynch Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Peter Lynch The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
Peter Lynch Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
Peter Lynch Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
Plato Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Proverbs 14:15 The naive believes everything, but a wise man looks well to a matter.
Proverbs 14:32 In all labor there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 15:32 He that refuses instruction hates himself, but he who listens to reproof acquires understanding.
Proverbs 16:16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen above silver.
Proverbs 22:29 Do you see a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings.
Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Romans 10:2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.
Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Russ Whitney With more knowledge comes less fear
Schopenhauer All truth goes through three phases. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally it is accepted as self evident.
Shane Mielke Surround yourself with people who have the skills you want and are the type of people you want to be
Shane Mielke I once stayed up 56 hours to meet a deadline
Shane Mielke There R 3 types of ppl. Wills, Wonts, & Cants. The Wills accomplish everything, the Wonts oppose everything, & the Cants wont try anything.
Some Smart Physicist The more I know about something the more I know about everything
Spirit Yes. Wherever we are, the Source, God, is. A heart attack isn't bad. It is just an experience accepted on a certain level of being.
Steve Pavlina Either be full-assed or no-assed
Steve Pavlina By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct
Steven Spielberg All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.
Teddy Roosevelt Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.
Thomas Edison Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Edison Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Thomas Edison Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas Edison There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Thomas Edison The best thinking has been done in solitude.
Thomas Edison Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Edison There's a way to do it better - find it.
Thomas Edison To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Thomas Edison Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas Edison I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison What you are will show in what you do.
Thomas Edison I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas Edison Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas Edison Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas Jefferson Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those
who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves ... these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.
Upton Sinclair It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it
Vasais The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
Walt Disney The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney Never mind the classification, just get that guy in here.
Walt Disney Money - or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas - may worry me, but it does not excite me. Ideas excite me.
Walt Disney Beat them with product
Walt Disney I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it
Walt Disney I believe in being an innovator.
Walt Disney I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
Walt Disney A man should never neglect his family for business.
Warren Buffett The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Warren Buffett You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Warren Buffett I'm a good businessman because I'm a good investor. I'm a good investor because I'm a good businessman.
Warren Buffett We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right.
Warren Buffett I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
Warren Buffett Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Wayne Gretzky I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for.
Wayne Gretzky Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
Wayne Gretzky You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
William Bramley Noble means to a lesser goal will benefit the world far more than disreputable means to a higher goal.
William Bramley When genuine spiritual knowledge is distorted, yet the desire for spiritual salvation continues to be stimulated, a great many people can be led into doing a great many stupid things.
Wisdom of Solomon 8:19-20 I was given a sound body to live in because I was already good.
WSD:1:12 Laws are made, and laws are changed, but no man truly knows what is right and what is wrong.
WSD:1:24 The social imperfections are the result of man's lack of understanding and his dedication to material ends rather than spiritual ones.
WSD:1:30 Be modest in manner and calm in bearing, for men avoid the excitable man who is a weak reed to lean upon in times of stress and a hazard in danger.
WSD:1:31 It is more profitable to listen than to talk.
WSD:1:31 Arise early in the morning, and greet the day eagerly, for the sluggard and lieabed are already partially dead.
WSD:1:34 Bear in mind that it is better for a man to be numbered among the insulted than among the insulters, among the slandered and not among the slanderers.
WSD:1:37 Of thoughts, words and deeds, only deeds have any established value on Earth.
WSD:1:38 The man who attempts to clean up the morals of the people is like the dusting cloth which cleans only by becoming soiled itself.
WSD:3:15 Though many men know how they should live very few do in fact live that way.
WSD:4:8 Few are those who recognise their own defects and fewer still those who honestly acknowledge them.
Complete Quote List
Author Quote
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Peter 3:5 For this they are willingly ignorant of... the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Albert Einstein Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.
Albert Einstein Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.
Albert Einstein At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
Albert Einstein No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Aldous Huxley As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
Aldous Huxley A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude.
Aldous Huxley The ends cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced
Alec Bourne It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Angie Fenimore Life's supposed to be hard. We can't skip over the hard parts. We must earn what we receive.
Anonymous Knowledge without work is dangerous
Anonymous The best slave is the slave who thinks he is free, and the greatest fool is the fool who thinks he is a wise man.
Aristotle I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Aristotle What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Ben Schoeffler If you are confident in your beliefs then why are you getting upset?
Betty Eadie There is a fullness of the gospel, but most people will not attain it here. In order to grasp this truth, we need to listen to the Spirit and let go of our egos.
Betty Eadie Whatever we become here in mortality is meaningless unless it is done for the benefit of others.
Betty Eadie We are here to have love for every person born on earth. Their earthly form might be black, yellow, brown, handsome, ugly, thin, fat, wealthy, poor, intelligent, or ignorant, but we are not to judge by these appearances. Each spirit has the capacity to be filled with love and eternal energy.
Bill Tytla It is too limiting to copy someone else
Bruce Lee The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all.
Bruce Lee If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Bruce Lee All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Clint McGee Small minds discuss other people, average minds discuss events, and excellent minds discuss ideas.
CRT:1:12 Creation does not explain itself; under the Law, it cannot do so; its secrets have to be unraveled by the created.
CRT:1:13 All things are finite. An unaccomplishable purpose would be eternal frustration, and therefore, the universe being created purposefully it must have an objective.
CRT:2:13 What you know to be good, seek for and it shall be found.
CRT:2:2 Without substance, the Spirit of God was awake, but entering substance, it slept.
CRT:2:5 Had man not been created, who would have known God's wisdom and power?
Dale Carnegie The principles taught in this book will work only when they come from the heart. I am not advocating a bag of tricks. I am talking about a new way of life.
Dale Carnigie You can't win an argument
Dhammapada Do not disregard merit, saying, "It will not come nigh unto me"; by the falling of drops even a water-jar is filled, likewise the wise man, gathering little by little, fills himself with good.
Dhammapada Do not disregard evil, saying, "It will not come nigh unto me", by the falling of drops even a water-jar is filled, likewise the fool, gathering little by little, fills himself with evil.
Dhammapada 19 Even if he is fond of quoting appropriate texts, the thoughtless man who does not put them into practice himself is like cowherd counting other people's cows, not a partner in the Holy Life.
Dhammapada 20 Even if he does not quote appropriate texts much, if he follows the principles of the Teaching by getting rid of greed, hatred and delusion, deep of insight and with a mind free from attachment, not clinging to anything in this world or the next - that man is a partner in the Holy Life.
Dhammapada 41 Before long this body will be lying on the ground, discarded and unconscious, like a useless bit of wood.
Dhammapada 63 A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.
Dhammapada 65 Even if a man of intelligence lives with a wise man only for a moment, he will immediately recognise the truth, like one's tongue recognises the flavour of the soup.
Dhammapada 66 Stupid fools go through life as their own enemies, doing evil deeds which have bitter consequences.
Dhammapada 77 If a man disciplines, instructs and restrains them from what is not right, he will be dear to the good, and disliked by the bad.
Dhammapada 81 Like a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so the wise are not moved by praise or blame.
Donald Trump Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Donald Trump Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.
Eli If You Wait For Results There Won't Be Any
Eric Jordan Let the world be as it is
Eric Jordan What is taught in schools has already been done a thousand times over, and it is regurgitated on a daily basis. In order to create something truly unique, you must look within yourself, as that is only where unique ideas can come from. None of us are the same, and so what you create can never be the same as anyone else's.
Fergy Why do you want to memorize how I did this action? I may do it different next time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson
Fred Moore I have reached everything I want, and I'm only twenty-four. Now what do I do?
General George S. Patton If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.
Genesis 18:14 Is there anything too hard for the Lord?
George Carlin I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
George Washington Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
Glenn Kimball Ask 10 people if you should start a new business. 10 out of 10 of them will say NO.
Henry Ford It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Holyoak 1990 If you would like to excel at a profession or a mental skill, plan on adding to your knowledge every day
Howard Storm God wants us to do what we want to do. That means making choices - and there isn't necessarily any right choice. There is a spectrum of possibilities, and we should make the best choice from those possibilities. If we do that, we will receive help from the Other Side.
J. R. R. Tolkien Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
Jackdeth Try, fail, try again, fail even worse, try again, score!
James 4:4 Don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God?
James Allen The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn
Jeremy Shoemaker I spend maybe 2-5% of my time maintaining what I have and the rest of the time trying to grow.
Jesus This soul needs to follow another soul in whom the Spirit of life dwells, because she is saved through the Spirit. Then she will never be thrust into flesh again.
Jesus Watch and pray that you may not be born in the flesh, but that you may leave the bitter bondage of this life.
Jesus Let one who seeks not stop seeking until one finds. When one finds, one will be disturbed. When one is disturbed, one will be amazed, and will reign over all.
Jesus Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human.
Jesus This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away.
Jesus Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Jesus Those who know all, but are lacking in themselves, are utterly lacking.
Jesus Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
Jesus Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Jesus Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Jesus Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Jesus What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?
Jesus The kingdom of heaven is spread out across the earth, only people don't see it.
Jesus There are those who derive pleasure in being what they are not, but as their hair turns grey, they suffer sorrow and frustration. Be ever true to yourselves and to your natures.
Jesus Justice is not a thing of the time. Though the mills of God grind slowly, they grind to perfection. Life itself metes out justice. The justice of God adjusts the injustice of men. Were this not so, I would not have come.
Jesus Even the least among you can do all that I have done, and greater things.
Jesus Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Jesus The kingdom of God is within you.
Jesus He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city.
Jesus Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Jesus - Gospel of Thomas His followers said to him, 'When will the rest for the dead take place, and when will the new world come?' He said to them, 'What you look for has come, but you do not know it.'
Jesus - Gospel of Thomas 28 I took my stand in the midst of the world, and in flesh I appeared to them. I found them all drunk, and I did not find any of them thirsty. My soul ached for the children of humanity, because they are blind in their hearts and do not see, for they came into the world empty, and they also seek to depart from the world empty. But meanwhile they are drunk. When they shake off their wine, then they will change their ways.
Jim Buckmaster We are not so much anti-capitalist (...) We're fortunate enough to have built a very healthy business, even though we haven't attempted to. All we have done is stop short of trying to become insanely wealthy. We have met billionaires and it sounds funny but it's not necessarily a bed of roses to have that kind of money.
Jim Buckmaster Get something out there. Do it, even if it isn't perfect.
Job 1:21 Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart.
John 14:6 I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John D. Rockefeller I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
John D. Rockefeller I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
John D. Rockefeller A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
John D. Rockefeller If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John D. Rockefeller It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
John D. Rockefeller The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
Luke 8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Manly P Hall Always trust a person looking for the truth, don't ever trust the one who's found it.
Manowar Nothing is as bad as it seems
Marcus Aurelius Wherever life is possible, it is possible to live in the right way. What if you live in a palace? Then it is possible to live in a palace the right way.
Marcus Aurelius None can force me to do wrong against my will
Marcus Tullius Cicero Wise men are instructed by reason;
Men of less understanding, by experience;
The most ignorant, by necessity;
The beasts by nature.
Mark Twain Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover
Mark Twain Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Marvin Jones Living without reflecting is like eating without digesting
Michael Jordan I've never been afraid to fail.
Michael Jordan Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
Michael Jordan I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Michael Jordan My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Michael Jordan Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.
Michael Jordan I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
Michael Jordan I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
Michael Jordan I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michelangelo Buonarroti The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.
Moraney It is not so much what you believe in, but why you believe it
MPR:13:3 Beware the weakness of indecision, for a bad decision is better than no decision at all.
MPR:13:3 Beware of irresolution; better is it to journey along the wrong path than never to start.
MPR:32:11 He who leads to victory is great, but he who can lead in defeat is still greater.
MPR:32:8 The arrogant man, however great may be his power, is less powerful because of his arrogance.
MPR:34:15 God is beyond his comprehension, but Truth is not; it alone is the path towards the fulfillment of the destiny of man.
MPR:34:20 Weakling and fool, are not the foes made by Truth better than the friends made by falsehood?
MPR:38:6 The possessions of a greedy man are never secure, for his avariciousness will destroy that, which his greed has gathered.
MPR:9:5 To help the weak is good but of lesser importance than to attack their oppressor.
Nikola Tesla Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Nikola Tesla My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.
Numbers 12:6-8 When a prophet of the Lord is among you, I reveal myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house. With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Oscar Wilde Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Paul Harvey In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these.
Peter Lynch The secret to his success is that he never went to business school.
Peter Lynch Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
Peter Lynch The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
Peter Lynch Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
Peter Lynch Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
Plato Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
Plato I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Proverbs 14:15 The naive believes everything, but a wise man looks well to a matter.
Proverbs 14:32 In all labor there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 15:32 He that refuses instruction hates himself, but he who listens to reproof acquires understanding.
Proverbs 16:16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen above silver.
Proverbs 22:29 Do you see a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings.
Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Romans 10:2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.
Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Russ Whitney With more knowledge comes less fear
Schopenhauer All truth goes through three phases. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally it is accepted as self evident.
Shane Mielke Surround yourself with people who have the skills you want and are the type of people you want to be
Shane Mielke I once stayed up 56 hours to meet a deadline
Shane Mielke There R 3 types of ppl. Wills, Wonts, & Cants. The Wills accomplish everything, the Wonts oppose everything, & the Cants wont try anything.
Some Smart Physicist The more I know about something the more I know about everything
Spirit Yes. Wherever we are, the Source, God, is. A heart attack isn't bad. It is just an experience accepted on a certain level of being.
Steve Pavlina Either be full-assed or no-assed
Steve Pavlina By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct
Steven Spielberg All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.
Teddy Roosevelt Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.
Thomas Edison Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Edison Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.
Thomas Edison Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas Edison There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Thomas Edison The best thinking has been done in solitude.
Thomas Edison Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Edison There's a way to do it better - find it.
Thomas Edison To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Thomas Edison Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas Edison I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison What you are will show in what you do.
Thomas Edison I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas Edison Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas Edison Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas Jefferson Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those
who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves ... these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.
Upton Sinclair It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it
Vasais The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
Walt Disney The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney Never mind the classification, just get that guy in here.
Walt Disney Money - or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas - may worry me, but it does not excite me. Ideas excite me.
Walt Disney Beat them with product
Walt Disney I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it
Walt Disney I believe in being an innovator.
Walt Disney I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
Walt Disney A man should never neglect his family for business.
Warren Buffett The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Warren Buffett You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Warren Buffett I'm a good businessman because I'm a good investor. I'm a good investor because I'm a good businessman.
Warren Buffett We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right.
Warren Buffett I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
Warren Buffett Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Wayne Gretzky I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for.
Wayne Gretzky Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
Wayne Gretzky You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
William Bramley Noble means to a lesser goal will benefit the world far more than disreputable means to a higher goal.
William Bramley When genuine spiritual knowledge is distorted, yet the desire for spiritual salvation continues to be stimulated, a great many people can be led into doing a great many stupid things.
Wisdom of Solomon 8:19-20 I was given a sound body to live in because I was already good.
WSD:1:12 Laws are made, and laws are changed, but no man truly knows what is right and what is wrong.
WSD:1:24 The social imperfections are the result of man's lack of understanding and his dedication to material ends rather than spiritual ones.
WSD:1:30 Be modest in manner and calm in bearing, for men avoid the excitable man who is a weak reed to lean upon in times of stress and a hazard in danger.
WSD:1:31 It is more profitable to listen than to talk.
WSD:1:31 Arise early in the morning, and greet the day eagerly, for the sluggard and lieabed are already partially dead.
WSD:1:34 Bear in mind that it is better for a man to be numbered among the insulted than among the insulters, among the slandered and not among the slanderers.
WSD:1:37 Of thoughts, words and deeds, only deeds have any established value on Earth.
WSD:1:38 The man who attempts to clean up the morals of the people is like the dusting cloth which cleans only by becoming soiled itself.
WSD:3:15 Though many men know how they should live very few do in fact live that way.
WSD:4:8 Few are those who recognise their own defects and fewer still those who honestly acknowledge them.