The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. Its as simple as that.

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. Nolan Bushnell

1. My son is now an entrepreneur. Thats what youre calle...d when you dont have a job. Ted Turner

1. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. Norman Schwarzkopf 2. The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customers place. Orison Swett Marden 3. I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Dont sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! C.J. Walker 4. The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. Debbi Fields 5. Life is too complicated not to be orderly. Martha Stewart 6. The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they cant do. Dennis Waitley 7. Business opportunities are like buses, theres always another one coming. Richard Branson 8. Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. George Van Valkenburg 9. There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard. C.J. Walker 10. Business is more exciting than any game. Lord Beaverbrook 11. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. Albert Einstein 12. We are currently not planning on conquering the world. Sergey Brin 13. If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business thered be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. Bill Rancic 14. It takes more than capital to swing business. Youve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. Ren Mulford Jr. 15. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. Bill O Reilly 16. A man should never neglect his family for business. Walt Disney 17. The only limits are, as always, those of vision. James Broughton

18. To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth 19. I like thinking big. If youre going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. Donald Trump 20. Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but thats exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; its about trading: buying and selling. Anita Roddick 21. To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. Tryon Edwards 22. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates 23. Success is often achieved by those who dont know that failure is inevitable. Coco Chanel 24. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. Henry Ford 25. The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. Epictetus 26. I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making. B.C. Forbes 27. The cynic says, One man cant do anything. I say, Only one man can do anything. - John W. Gardner 28. I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. Oprah Winfrey 29. If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. Ingvar Kamprad 30. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations. Steve Jobs 31. Youve got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. Its called perseverance. Lee Iacocca 32. The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. Laurence Sterne 33. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if youre not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. David Rockefeller 34. Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. George Soros 35. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight Eisenhower 36. If you did not look after todays business then you might as well forget about tomorrow. Isaac Mophatlane 37. The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. Thomas J. Watson 38. Yesterdays home runs dont win todays games. Babe Ruth 39. Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing. Magic Johnson 40. Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber

41. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda 42. The great leaders are like the best conductors they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. Blaine Lee 43. To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. George Kneller 44. To the degree were not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. Peter McWilliams 45. The enemy of the truth is very often not the lie deliberate, contrived, and dishonest but the myth-persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. John F. Kennedy 46. Long-range planning works best in the short term. Doug Evelyn 47. The NBA is never just a business. Its always business. Its always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. Mark Cuban 48. You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. Joseph E. Levine 49. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. Richard Branson 50. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. Peter F. Drucker 51. No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others.. or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. Calvin Coolidge 52. Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition in having put forth the best within you. Henry J. Kaiser 53. Winning is not a sometime thing; its an all time thing. You dont win once in a while, you dont do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Vince Lombardi 54. In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. Its no different in the financial realm. Suze Orman 55. The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius 56. The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell. Andrew Carnegie 57. Hire character. Train skill. Peter Schutz 58. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Bill Gates 59. Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. Francis Gray 60. Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum. Jeffrey Immelt 61. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Napoleon Hill 62. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin

63. Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. Charles Dickens 64. I dont pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. Robert Bosch 65. People are definitely a companys greatest asset. It doesnt make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. Mary Kay Ash 66. In business, Ive discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. Thats my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards. Donald Trump 67. In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. Harold Geneen 68. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. Thomas Watson, Sr. 69. The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. John Egan 70. There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I dont like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I dont spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities. Michael Dell 71. I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. Alan Greenspan 72. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi 73. Lets be honest. Theres not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings. Bob Parsons 74. You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. Jim Stovall 75. The only way around is through. Robert Frost 76. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you dont do too many things wrong. Warren Buffett 77. The noblest search is the search for excellence Lyndon B. Johnson 78. The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life. Charles M. Schwab 79. You must remain focused on your journey to greatness. Les Brown 80. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt 81. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. Charles F. Kettering 82. Whether you think you can or whether you think you cant, youre right! Henry Ford 83. You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. Jim Rohn 84. Who likes not his business, his business likes not him. William Hazlitt 85. The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. John Naisbitt

86. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. Henry Ford 87. Its through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that weve always mapped our path at Dell. Theres always an opportunity to make a difference. Michael Dell 88. If you work just for money, youll never make it, but if you love what youre doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. Ray Kroc 89. Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. Denis Waitley 90. Management is nothing more than motivating other people. Le Iacocca 91. Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower 92. The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. Peter Drucker 93. Why did I want to win? Because I didnt want to lose! Max Schmelling 94. To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. J. Paul Getty 95. To win without risk is to triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille 96. To succeed You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. Tony Dorsett 97. Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. Zig Ziglar 98. I wasnt satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. Donald Trump 99. Whether its Google or Apple or free software, weve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. Bill Gates 100. Everyone think of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. 101. ~ Leo Tolstoy 102. ________________________________________ 103. 104. I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure. 105. ~ Thomas Edison 106. ________________________________________ 107. 108. Believing everybody is dangerous; Believing nobody is very dangerous. 109. ~ Abraham Lincoln 110. ________________________________________ 111. 112. If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they had never tried a new thing in their life. 113. ~ Einstein 114. ________________________________________ 115.

116. Never break 4 things in your life 117. Trust, Promise, Relation, Heart because when they break they dont make noise but pains a lot. 118. ~ Charles 119. ________________________________________ 120. 121. If you start juding people, you will be having no time to love them 122. ~ Mother Teresa 123. ________________________________________ 124. 125. There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. 126. ~Aristotle 127. ________________________________________ 128. 129. Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving 130. themselves. 131. ~Samuel Johnson 132. ________________________________________ 133. 134. Praising what is lost 135. Makes the remembrance dear 136. ~William Shakespeare 137. ________________________________________ 138. 139. To understand is to perceive patterns. 140. ~Sir Isaiah Berlin 141. ________________________________________ 142. 143. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little 144. statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has 145. simply nothing to do. 146. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 147. ________________________________________ 148. 149. Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a 150. rough exterior. 151. ~Juvenalc 152. ________________________________________ 153. 154. Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name 155. for ignorance. 156. ~G.K. Chesterton 157. ________________________________________ 158. 159. Even God cannot change the past. 160. ~Agathon 447?-401 B.C.Quoted in Aristotles Nicomachaean

161. ________________________________________ 162. 163. Education is not filling a pail, but lighting a fire. 164. ~William Butler Yeats 165. ________________________________________ 166. 167. I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. 168. ~Charles Dickens 169. ________________________________________ 170. 171. I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think its hell. 172. ~Harry Truman 173. ________________________________________ 174. 175. The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that youve got it 176. made. 177. ~Jean Gieraudoux 178. ________________________________________ 179. 180. Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and 181. those who dare not, are slaves. 182. ~George Gordon Noel Byron 183. ________________________________________ 184. 185. What good is reason if it drives out beauty, terror, and vivid emotion? Can 186. a thousand facts compare with that epiphanic moment, when a poet stands tall 187. in a lightning storm, hurling challenges at God? 188. ~David Brin 189. ________________________________________ 190. 191. The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out and meet it. 192. ~Thucydides 193. ________________________________________ 194. 195. The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. 196. ~Don Coryell 197. ________________________________________ 198. 199. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. 200. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 201. ________________________________________ 202. 203. The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

204. ~John W. Gardner 205. ________________________________________ 206. 207. The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. 208. ~Henry Ward Beecher 209. ________________________________________ 210. 211. The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. 212. ~Lucretius 213. ________________________________________ 214. 215. The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. 216. ~Woodrow Wilson 217. ________________________________________ 218. 219. The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell. 220. ~Andrew Carnegie 221. ________________________________________ 222. 223. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. 224. ~John F. Kennedy 225. ________________________________________ 226. 227. It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might. 228. ~Abraham Lincoln 229. ________________________________________ 230. 231. Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other. 232. ~Ronald Reagan 233. ________________________________________ 234. 235. Politics is war carried out without bloodshed, while war is politics carried out with bloodshed. 236. ~Mao Zedong 237. ________________________________________ 238. 239. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. 240. ~John F. Kennedy 241. ________________________________________ 242. 243. As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.

244. ~Bill Clinton 245. ________________________________________ 246. 247. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time. 248. ~Abraham Lincoln 249. ________________________________________ 250. 251. A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. 252. ~Georges Pompidou 253. ________________________________________ 254. 255. America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America. 256. ~Jimmy Carter 257. ________________________________________ 258. 259. We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. 260. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt 261. ________________________________________ 262. 263. I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose! 264. ~Woodrow Wilson 265. ________________________________________ 266. 267. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainty. 268. ~Francis Bacon 269. ________________________________________ 270. 271. Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure. 272. ~Laozi 273. ________________________________________ 274. 275. Fear cannot be without some hope nor hope without some fear. 276. ~Baruch Spinoza 277. ________________________________________ 278. 279. Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. 280. ~Bernard Baruch 281. ________________________________________ 282.

283. Action may not always bring happiness ... but there is no happiness without action. 284. ~Benjamin Disraeli 285. ________________________________________ 286. 287. Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. 288. ~Leonardo da Vinci 289. ________________________________________ 290. 291. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. 292. ~Havelock Ellis 293. ________________________________________ 294. 295. Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. 296. ~Cicero 297. ________________________________________ 298. 299. The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please. 300. ~Confucius 301. ________________________________________ 302. 303. Infantile love follows the principle: 'I love because I am loved.' Mature love follows the principle: 'I am loved because I love.' Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.' 304. ~Erich Fromm 305. ________________________________________ 306. 307. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. 308. ~Alfred North Whitehead 309. ________________________________________ 310. 311. Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. 312. ~Jefferson Davis 313. ________________________________________ 314. You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. 315. ~Zig Ziglar 316. ________________________________________ 317. 318. it a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. 319. ~W. Somerset Maugham 320. ________________________________________

321. 322. Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. 323. ~Thomas Huxley 324. ________________________________________ 325. 326. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. 327. ~Phillips Brooks 328. ________________________________________ 329. 330. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. 331. ~Cyril Connolly 332. ________________________________________ 333. 334. You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say. 335. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald 336. ________________________________________ 337. 338. There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. 339. ~G. K. Chesterton 340. ________________________________________ 341. 342. It's not the hours you put in your work that count, it's work you put in the hours. 343. ~Sam Ewing 344. ________________________________________ 345. 346. A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes. 347. ~Edgar Watson Howe 348. ________________________________________ 349. 350. To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end. 351. ~Helen Rowland 352. ________________________________________ 353. 354. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. 355. ~Peter De Vries 356. ________________________________________ 357. 358. A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. 359. ~Thomas Kempis 360. ________________________________________

361. 362. O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast. 363. ~William Shakespeare 364. ________________________________________ 365. 366. Half of our mistakes in life arises from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. 367. ~John Churton Collins 368. ________________________________________ 369. 370. It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. 371. ~H. L. Mencken 372. ________________________________________ 373. 374. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. 375. ~Mark Twain 376. ________________________________________ 377. 378. When you love you should not say, 'God is in my heart,' but rather, 'I am in the heart of God.' And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. 379. ~Kahlil Gibran 380. ________________________________________ 381. 382. If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion. 383. ~Elbert Hubbard 384. ________________________________________ 385. 386. It's not the men in my life, but the life in my men. 387. ~Mae West 388. ________________________________________ 389. 390. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. 391. ~Jim Backus 392. ________________________________________ 393. 394. You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. 395. ~Amy Carmichael 396. ________________________________________ 397. 398. Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason. 399. ~Mason Cooley

400. ________________________________________ 401. 402. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. 403. ~John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 404. ________________________________________ 405. 406. You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart. 407. ~Thomas J. Watson, Sr. 408. ________________________________________ 409. 410. I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager. 411. ~Gene Mauch 412. ________________________________________ 413. 414. Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller. 415. ~Herb Kelleher