Business/Success

“Ambition is the gateway to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in”

“Success is getting what you want but
happiness is wanting what you get”

“Entrepreneurs are those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.”
-Niccolo Machiavelli

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted”

“It is not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich”
-Josh Billings

“He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”

“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second… quit doing less-than-excellent work.”
-Thomas Watson

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
-Truman Capote

“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.”
-Albert Camus

“In victory you deserve Champagne, in defeat, you need it.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“Whenever an individual or business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.”
-Thomas Watson

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”
-Ayn Rand

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary”
-Vince Lombardi

“Never let success go to your head, or failure to your heart.”

“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.”
-Whitney M. Young, Jr.

“To be impartial is to have already taken sides with the status quo.”

“The temptation to quit is always greatest right before you succeed”

“Vision without action is a dream, action without vision is a nightmare”
-Proverb

“It’s much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know much about the problem”
-Malcolm Forbes

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your dreams”
-Zig Ziglar

“There is no such thing as luck, it is only the residue of design. “Luck” is when planning meets opportunity”

“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.”
-Roger Staubach

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power”
-Abe Lincoln

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Normalcy and rebellion are but two sides to the same useless coin”
-Ptolemy Tompkins

“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”
-Norman Cousins

”An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom”
-Herman Hesse

“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. “
-Friedrich Nietzsche

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
-Andre Gide

“If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.”
-Blaise Pascal

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
-Da Vinci

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul”
-Joseph Addison

“The purpose of education is replace an empty mind with an open one”
-Malcolm Forbes

“The world of education is like an island where people, cut off from the world, are prepared for life by exclusion from it.”
-Maria Montessori