Entrepreneurship Quotes

1.    I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
2.    The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
3.    Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
4.    Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
5.    An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash
6.    The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect. – Adam Osborne
7.    A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell
8.    Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. - E. Joseph Cossman
9.    Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein
10.    You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. – Steve Jobs
11.    Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. – Fortune Cookie
12.    Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
13.    The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. – Peter F. Drucker
14.    If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
15.    If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. – Brian Tracy
16.    The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. – Michael Gerber
17.    As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump
18.    Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson
19.    The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. – Silvio Berlusconi
20.    Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
21.    A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
22.    If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
23.    I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
24.    In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby
25.    Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. – W. Clement Stone
26.    Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennet
27.    Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution. – Jeffrey Gitomer
28.    Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. – Henry Ford
29.    Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. -  Napoleon Hill
30.    Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. – W. Clement Stone
31.    Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. – Jim Rohn
32.    Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
33.    The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
34.    You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. – Robert Collier
35.    A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell
36.    For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. – Bo Bennett
37.    Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. – Natalie Clifford Barney
38.    Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
39.    I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. – Henry Ford
40.    You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar
41.    Every choice you make has an end result. – Zig Ziglar
42.    Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn
43.    Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain
44.    Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me? – Brian Tracy
45.    A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill
46.    Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker
47.    Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. – Napoleon Hill
48.    The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader
49.    Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. – Jim Rohn
50.    Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. – Dale Carnegie
51.    •  All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. – Napoleon Hill
52.    •  Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon Hill
53.    •  The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius
54.    •  One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide
55.    •  Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. - Jim Rohn
56.    •  If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got! – Alan Scott
57.    •  Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. – Anon
58.    •  Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie
59.    •  Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin
60.    •  If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. – Zig Ziglar
61.    •  The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. – Jim Rohn
62.    •  An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
63.    •  There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley
64.    •  The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
65.    •  I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. – Walt Disney
66.    •  Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. – W. Clement Stone
67.    •  Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill
68.    •  Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. – Jim Rohn
69.    •  Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
70.    •  If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos
71.    •  Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. – Tim Blixseth
72.    •  I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got. - Alan Bond
73.    •  Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. – Mark Cuban
74.    •  Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle
75.    •  You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. – John Lennon
76.    •  Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. – Jim Rohn
77.    •  If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
78.    •  If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone
79.    •  Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success – Henry Ford
80.    •  Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have – Zig Ziglar
81.    •  The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis
82.    •  Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton
83.    •  If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. – Bo Bennett
84.    •  In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. – David Ogilvy
85.    •  Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar
86.    •  In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
87.    •  Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero
88.    •  Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill
89.    •  The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
90.    •  Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty
91.    •  I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. – Jack Welch
92.    •  You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. – Les Brown
93.    •  I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan
94.    •  Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. – Jack Welch
95.    •  If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. – Jack Welch
96.    •  As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. – James Cash Penney
97.    •  Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves. – Zig Ziglar
98.    •  It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. – James Cash Penney
99.    •  If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
100.    •  Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t. – Unknown
101.    •  You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired. – Unknown
102.    •  The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. – Albert Einstein
103.    •  Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer
104.    •  Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford
105.    •  What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
106.    •  Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. – Thomas Edison
107.    •  Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. – Stephen R. Covey
108.    •  Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Rohn
109.    I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”
– Thomas Edison,
Inventor and Scientist
110.    Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.”
– Anonymous
111.    The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning – to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki,
Entrepreneur, Investor, Author
112.    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,
Author
113.    Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”
– Thomas Edison,
Inventor and Scientist
114.    What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?”
– Robert Schuller,
Televangelist and Pastor
115.    You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired.”
– Ken Field,
Real Estate Magnate
116.    Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt,
26th President of the United States
117.    The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
– Albert Einstein,
Theoretical Physicist
118.    Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
– Albert Schweitzer,
Theologian, Organist, Philosopher
119.    A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
– Winston Churchill,
British Politician
120.    Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.”
– Henry Ford,
American Industrialist
121.    What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
– Napoleon Hill,
Author
122.    The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
– Vince Lombardi,
NFL Coach
123.    Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
– Chinese Proverb
124.    If I had eight hours to chop down a tree I would spend six hours sharpening my axe.”
– Abraham Lincoln,
16th President of the United States
125.    Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.”
– Yoda,
Jedi Master
126.    Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”
– Stephen R. Covey,
Author
127.    Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
– Confucius ,
Thinker and Philosopher
128.    An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Writer and Poet
129.    Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
– Jim Rohn,
Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker
130.    Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”
– Richard Branson,
British Industrialist
131.    Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso,
Spanish Painter
132.    Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle and a victory.”
– Mahatma Gandhi,
Political and Spiritual Leader
133.    Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.”
– John F. Kennedy,
35th President of the United States
134.    Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.”
– Anonymous
135.    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,
Real Estate and Entertainment Mogul
136.    The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities.”
– Michael Gerber,
Author and Entrepreneur
137.    An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.”
– Roy Ash,
California State Senator
138.    The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.”
– Adam Osborne,
American Author
139.    A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”
– John C. Maxwell,
Author and Speaker
140.    Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
– Albert Einstein,
Theoretical Physicist
141.    As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
– Donald Trump,
Real Estate and Entertainment Mogul
142.    Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.”
– Thomas J. Watson,
President of IBM
143.    Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill,
British Politician
144.    In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
– Bill Cosby,
Comedian, Actor, Author
145.    A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
– John C. Maxwell,
Author and Speaker
146.    You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
– Zig Ziglar,
Author and Speaker
147.    Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
– Jim Rohn,
Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker
148.    A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
– Napoleon Hill,
Author
149.    Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare.”
– Chinese Proverb
150.    The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney,
Director, Writer, Producer, Animator, Entrepreneur
151.    Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
– Bill Gates,
American Business Magnate and Philanthropist
152.    I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got.”
– Alan Bond,
Australian Businessman
153.    Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.”
– General George Patton,
US War Commander
154.    I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”
– Michael Jordan,
Professional Basketball Player
155.    Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.”
– Zig Ziglar,
Author and Speaker
156.    I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.”
– Harry Truman,
33rd President of the United States
157.    If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t! If you want to win, but think you can’t, It’s almost a cinch you won’t. If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost; For out in the world, we find success begins with a fellow’s will; it’s all in the state of the mind. Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger and faster man, but sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.”
– Walter D. Wintle,
American Poet
158.    The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
John Buchan
159.    The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
160.    To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!
Lao-Tsu
161.    Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon
162.    If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
Isaac Newton
163.    I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Everett Dirksen
164.    Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
165.    In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
166.    The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
167.    I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Benjamin Disraeli
168.    Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
169.    Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
170.    The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippman
171.    If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
172.    I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert B. Swope
173.    High sentiments always win in the end, The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
George Orwell
174.    The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Kenneth Blanchard
175.    Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
176.    The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh
177.    I think leadership comes from integrity – that you do whatever you ask others to do. I think there are non-obvious ways to lead. Just by providing a good example as a parent, a friend, a neighbor makes it possible for other people to see better ways to do things. Leadership does not need to be a dramatic, fist in the air and trumpets blaring, activity.
Scott Berkun
178.    The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I.” And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say “I.” They don’t think “I.” They think “we”; they think “team.” They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but “we” gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Peter Drucker
179.    Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
180.    As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates
181.    It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Seneca
182.    Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
183.    Do More, When You’re Doing Your Best (Ralph Ruckman, Me)
184.    Be nice to geek’s, you’ll probably end up working for one – Bill Gates
185.    Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great – Mark Twain
186.    Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve - Dr. Napoleon Hill
187.    What is not started will never get finished – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
188.    When you cease to dream you cease to live - Malcolm Forbes
189.    Quote:“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary” – Steve Jobs
190.    I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
191.    A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell
192.    If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
193.    If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
194.    Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennet
195.    Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
196.    The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
197.    A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell
198.    I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. – Henry Ford
199.    Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn
200.    Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker
201.    If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got! – Alan Scott
202.    An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
203.    The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
204.    Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. – Jim Rohn
205.    Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. – Mark Cuban
206.    If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone
207.    Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton
208.    Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing. – Abraham Lincoln
209.    All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job. – Adam Horwitz
210.    The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect. – Adam Osborne
211.    The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Agatha Christie
212.    I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got. – Alan Bond
213.    If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got! – Alan Scott
214.    Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein
215.    Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
216.    First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will. – Aleksandr Lebed
217.    Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneur will and spirit of the American people, somewhere else. – Allen West
218.    One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide
219.    Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser’s excuse. – Andrew Fashion
220.    Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. – Anon
221.    Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t. – Anonymous
222.    If you’re not living life on the edge, you’re taking up too much space. – Anonymous
223.    After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. – Aristotle
224.    The road to success is always under construction. – Arnold Palmer
225.    We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. – Arthur C. Brooks
226.    Today’s developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. – Arthur Erickson
227.    Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth
228.    I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% – still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work. – Barbara Corcoran
229.    Everything started as nothing. – Ben Weissenstein
230.    The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
231.    Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin 
232.    I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
233.    In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby
234.    Be nice to geek’s, you’ll probably end up working for one. – Bill Gates
235.    Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
236.    Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennet
237.    For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. – Bo Bennett
238.    If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. – Bo Bennett
239.    Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. – Booker T. Washington
240.    If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. – Brian Tracy
241.    Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me? – Brian Tracy
242.    The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing. – Carrie Wilkerson
243.    If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions. – Catherine Cook
244.    I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. – Charles Maurice
245.    Leaders don’t force people to follow, they invite them on a journey. – Charles S. Lauer
246.    A bad workman blames his tools. – Chinese Proverb
247.    A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Chinese Proverb
248.    Failing to plan is planning to fail. – Chinese Proverb
249.    The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb
250.    When you go to buy, don’t show your silver. – Chinese Proverb
251.    There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley
252.    Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero 
253.    If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock. – Claude McDonald
254.    The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis
255.    The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius
256.    To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Corneille
257.    Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. – Dale Carnegie
258.    Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie
259.    Ideas are worthless. – Dane Carlson
260.    The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal. – David Geffen
261.    In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. – David Ogilvy
262.    A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first. – Daymond John
263.    An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made. – Daymond John
264.    If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. – Derek Bok
265.    As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump
266.    I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. – Donald Trump
267.    Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. – Dr. Napoleon Hill
268.    In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
269.    Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
270.    Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. – E. Joseph Cossman
271.    The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ – a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’. – E. M. Kelly
272.    Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. – Earl Wilson
273.    Go Big, or Go Home. – Eliza Dushku
274.    Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday. – Emil Motycka
275.    The biggest failure you can have in life is not trying at all. – Emil Motycka
276.    Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. – Fortune Cookie
277.    If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken. – Gary Vaynerchuk
278.    Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton
279.    I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns
280.    Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg
281.    He who begins many things finishes but few. – German Proverb
282.    It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. – Grace Hopper
283.    A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry Ford
284.    Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. – Henry Ford
285.    I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. – Henry Ford
286.    Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford
287.    Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. – Jack Welch
288.    I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. – Jack Welch
289.    If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. – Jack Welch
290.    As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. – James Cash Penney
291.    It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. – James Cash Penney
292.    Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
293.    If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos
294.    Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution. – Jeffrey Gitomer
295.    Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. – Jim Rohn
296.    Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn
297.    Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. – Jim Rohn
298.    Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. – Jim Rohn
299.    Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
300.    Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. – Jim Rohn
301.    Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. – Jim Rohn
302.    If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
303.    The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. – Jim Rohn
304.    The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place. – Jim Rohn
305.    You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn
306.    Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it. – Joe Penna
307.    If you think that you are going to love something, give it a try. You’re going to kick yourself in the butt for the rest of your life if you don’t. – Joe Penna
308.    In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
309.    What is not started will never get finished. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
310.    There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. – John Baldacci
311.    A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell
312.    A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell
313.    Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. – John F. Kennedy
314.    You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. – John Lennon
315.    Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. – Joseph A. Schumpeter
316.    Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation. – Kevin Harrington
317.    You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. – Les Brown
318.    When you cease to dream you cease to live. – Malcolm Forbes
319.    I’ve been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies. – Marc Andreessen
320.    A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
321.    If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
322.    Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty
323.    Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. – Mark Cuban 
324.    Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain
325.    Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain
326.    When I finished school, I took my entire life savings – $5,000 – and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke. – Mark Warner
327.    Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
328.    I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I’m doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points. – Michael Dunlop
329.    If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there’s nothing lost. – Michael Dunlop
330.    You’ve got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don’t work. – Michael Dunlop
331.    The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. – Michael Gerber
332.    I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan
333.    One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching. – Mooie
334.    A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill
335.    All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. – Napoleon Hill
336.    Anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
337.    Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill
338.    Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon Hill
339.    Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. – Napoleon Hill
340.    If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
341.    If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. – Napoleon Hill
342.    Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill
343.    Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. – Napoleon Hill
344.    Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. – Natalie Clifford Barney
345.    The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Nolan Bushnell
346.    Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker
347.    The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
348.    The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. – Peter Drucker
349.    The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. – Peter F. Drucker
350.    Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schultz
351.    The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader
352.    An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
353.    I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. – Ray Kurzweil
354.    But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by. It’s an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does. – Reed Hastings
355.    Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
356.    I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. – Richard Branson
357.    I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch
358.    You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. – Robert Collier
359.    Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. – Robert Orben
360.    Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. – Robert T. Kiyosaki
361.    There are two rules for success. 1) Never tell everything you know. – Roger H. Lincoln
362.    An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash
363.    Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it. – Ryan Allis
364.    Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease. – Ryan P. Allis
365.    The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. – Silvio Berlusconi
366.    You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. – Steve Jobs
367.    You should always stay hungry. Stay hungry, so you can eat. – Syed Balkhi
368.    A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, ‘When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?’ I think it’s a great question. I’ll tell you, in my life I’ve never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. – Ted Cruz
369.    Lend your friend $20. If he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent. – Ted Nicolas
370.    My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner
371.    I’ve always been an entrepreneur, but it’s never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better. – Terry McAuliffe
372.    Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it. – Theodore Roosevelt
373.    Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle
374.    I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
375.    I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. – Thomas Edison
376.    Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
377.    Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson
378.    To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas J. Watson
379.    Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. – Thomas J. Watson
380.    Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. – Tim Blixseth
381.    The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money. – Tom Hooper
382.    I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It’s a little easier when you have you’re an entrepreneur. – Tory Burch
383.    If you ain’t making waves, you ain’t kickin’ hard enough. – Unknown
384.    Its better to own the racecourse then the race horse. – Unknown
385.    You don’t buy a nice car and get rich you get rich and buy a nice car. – Unknown
386.    An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. – Victor Kiam
387.    The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
388.    If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone
389.    Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. – W. Clement Stone
390.    Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. – W. Clement Stone
391.    Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. – W. Clement Stone
392.    I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. – Walt Disney
393.    The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
394.    I’ve been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn’t want a 9-5 job. – Will Estes
395.    That’s a tough question; I’ve been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn’t want a 9-5 job. – Will Estes
396.    Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. – Will Smith
397.    Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there. – Will Smith
398.    Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William B. Sprague
399.    The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. – William James
400.    Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
401.    Every choice you make has an end result. – Zig Ziglar
402.    If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. – Zig Ziglar
403.    Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves. – Zig Ziglar
404.    One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
405.    Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar
406.    Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have – Zig Ziglar
407.    You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar
408.    Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.”
409.    ~ Natalie Clifford Barney
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411.    “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”  ~ Martin Luther King
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413.    “I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.” ~ Henry Ford
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415.    “If you’re not living life on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ~ Anonymous
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417.    “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”  ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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419.    “An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.”  ~ Roy Ash
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421.    “Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.” ~ James Allen

422.    “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
423.    ~ Jim Rohn
424.   
425.    “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”  ~ Peter Drucker
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427.    “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
428.    ~ Winston Churchill
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430.    “Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.” ~ Fortune Cookie
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432.    “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” ~ Napoleon Hill
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434.    “The best use of life is to spend it on something that outlasts it.” ~ William James
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436.    “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.” ~ Anonymous
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438.    “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas Edison
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440.    “There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.” ~ Christopher Morley
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442.    “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” ~ Japanese Proverb
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444.    “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” ~ Vidal Sassoon
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446.    “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
447.    ~ Japanese Proverb
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449.    “A ship in harbor is safe. But that’s now what ships are built for.” ~ William Shedd
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451.    “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

452.    “Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” ~ Confucius

453.    “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon seem inevitable.” ~ Christopher Reeve
454.   
455.    “One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, ‘Why?’ are quick to say, ‘Why not?’ That attitude is contagious.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

456.    “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there will ever be to know and understand.” ~ Albert Einstein

457.    Speaking of which, I have an idea. From now on, instead of saying “hey” to dreamers, greet them with a bow and show them the Steve Jobs kind of faith you also need. They’ll grow wings and, who knows, maybe some day, they might just carry you home.
458.    "An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.
- Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
459.    "Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."
- Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Enterprises
460.    "The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."
- Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's
461.    "Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation."
- Peter F. Drucker, "The Father of Modern Management"
462.    "I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent."
- Thomas Edison
463.    "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, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies
464.    "We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm."
- Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Corporation
465.    "Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning."
- Bill Gates
466.    "Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets."
- Victor Kiam, best known for his "I liked it so much, I bought the company" ads for Remington electric shavers
467.    "If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd 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, winner on Donald Trump's "The Apprentice"
468.    "The cover-your-butt mentality of the workplace will get you only so far. The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business--but it's a whole lot more fun, don't you think?"
- Bill Rancic
469.    "Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it's about trading: buying and selling."
- Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop
470.    "I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world."
- Anita Roddick
471.    "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, real estate and entertainment mogul
472.    "My son is now an 'entrepreneur'. That's what you're called when you don't have a job."
- Ted Turner, broadcasting entrepreneur
473.    "I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!"
- Madam C.J. Walker, creator of a popular line of African-American hair care products and America's first black female millionaire

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