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hope
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Desmond Tutu

success
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

entrepreneurship
Business opportunities are like buses; there's always another one coming.

Richard Branson

entrepreneurship
Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

Guy Kawasaki

love
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss

success
Dream big and dare to fail.

Norman Vaughan

love
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

mindfulness
Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.

Amit Ray

entrepreneurship
The question isn't whether you'll face setbacks — it's how fast you recover.

Oprah Winfrey

entrepreneurship
Great products pull people in. Average products push them away — with discounts.

Naval Ravikant

wisdom
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

entrepreneurship
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Buddha

creativity
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Maya Angelou

love
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

life
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

love
Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

hope
Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

Christopher Reeve

entrepreneurship
We're here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?

Steve Jobs

entrepreneurship
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Abraham Lincoln

success
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer

creativity
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Edwin Land

business
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Henry Ford

friendship
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

success
Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

love
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Audrey Hepburn

learning
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.

Brian Herbert

leadership
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

John C. Maxwell

hope
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Albert Camus

friendship
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school.

Muhammad Ali

business
Every cost is an investment or a waste — know which is which.

Napoleon Hill

business
All things being equal, people will do business with those people they know, like and trust.

Bob Burg

love
Love is friendship that has caught fire.

Ann Landers

success
The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

success
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

wisdom
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Voltaire

courage
Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

life
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

entrepreneurship
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

entrepreneurship
The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Mark Zuckerberg

business
A business plan that can't survive a hard question isn't ready for the market.

Michael Porter

life
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Charles R. Swindoll

business
That's been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

Steve Jobs

entrepreneurship
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Oprah Winfrey

business
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Jack Welch

success
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Bruce Lee

success
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

business
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Peter Drucker

courage
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones.

Victor Hugo

love
We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

mindfulness
Silence is not empty, it's full of answers.

Unknown

entrepreneurship
Know when to be stubborn about the vision and flexible about the path.

Paul Graham

friendship
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

mindfulness
Wherever you are, be there totally.

Eckhart Tolle

business
The best advertising is done by satisfied customers.

Philip Kotler

creativity
Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

entrepreneurship
If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

Steve Jobs

hope
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luther

entrepreneurship
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Steve Jobs

learning
The more that you read, the more things you will know.

Dr. Seuss

business
Make a customer, not a sale.

Katherine Barchetti

entrepreneurship
A focused startup beats a diversified one every time, at every stage.

Mark Zuckerberg

life
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

business
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Peter Drucker

success
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

entrepreneurship
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Jim Rohn

business
Focus is not about saying yes to opportunity — it's about saying no to distraction.

Ken Blanchard

business
Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.

Steve Jobs

business
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Gary Vaynerchuk

leadership
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

business
If you have more than three priorities, you don't have any.

Jim Collins

happiness
Happiness is a warm puppy.

Charles M. Schulz

wisdom
It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

success
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Colin R. Davis

happiness
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Ayn Rand

entrepreneurship
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

business
Know your enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

Sun Tzu

business
Good is the enemy of great.

Jim Collins

happiness
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

success
Great things never come from comfort zones.

Neil Strauss

entrepreneurship
Competition is for losers. If you want to create and capture lasting value, look to build a monopoly.

Peter Thiel

entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

Peter Drucker

entrepreneurship
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Biz Stone

love
Love is not something you find. Love is something that finds you.

Loretta Young

entrepreneurship
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Peter Drucker

mindfulness
Do every act of your life as though it were the last act of your life.

Marcus Aurelius

learning
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Benjamin Franklin

courage
Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

entrepreneurship
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

learning
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Henry Ford

courage
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

E. E. Cummings

happiness
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

love
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

entrepreneurship
Every dollar in the bank is a decision you can afford to make later.

Marc Andreessen

business
Numbers don't lie. But incomplete numbers mislead.

Napoleon Hill

leadership
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

Ken Kesey

learning
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

courage
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'

Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Henry Ford

entrepreneurship
A vision without execution is just a daydream with a pitch deck.

Sheryl Sandberg

business
Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

Philip Kotler

business
The customer's perception is your reality.

Kate Zabriskie

entrepreneurship
I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

Estée Lauder

life
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Marthe Troly-Curtin

love
The heart wants what it wants — or else it does not care.

Emily Dickinson

love
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

learning
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

entrepreneurship
Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

life
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

entrepreneurship
Your network is your net worth — but only if you've built it before you need it.

Robert Kiyosaki

wisdom
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

leadership
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

entrepreneurship
You become what you believe.

Oprah Winfrey

business
Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.

Simon Sinek

wisdom
A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracián

success
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

life
Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

entrepreneurship
Screw it, let's do it.

Richard Branson

friendship
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller

business
Content marketing is all the marketing that's left.

Seth Godin

happiness
Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.

Roy T. Bennett