• I am a better investor because I am a businessman and a better businessman because I am an investor - Warren E. Buffett

• Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point you have to throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line. That means not only being brave, but being compassionate towards yourself, your teammates and your opponents - Phil Jackson

• Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, power and magic in it - Goethe (click here to see full version of quote - recommended)

• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
  - Chinese Proverb

• Advance confidently in the direction of your own dreams and you will will meet with success unexpected in common hours - Henry Thoreau

• Sometime during the two-year curriculum, every MBA student ought to hear it clearly stated that numbers, techniques, and analysis are all side matters. What is central to business is the joy of creating - Peter Robinson

• The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected - Frank Dane

• What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.  Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new - Henry Thoreau

• There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder - Ronald Reagan

• Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish - Ovid

• The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence - Steven Jobs

• In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything - Tom Peters

• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take - Wayne Gretzky

• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new 
  - Albert Einstein

• I have had a lot of success with failure - Thomas Edison

• Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good that we oft may win, By fearing to attempt - William Shakespeare

• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear - Ambrose Redmoon

• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away - Henry Thoreau

• The scoreboard can't make you a loser. If you walk off the field with your head up, you don't lose. You don't hang your head for nobody. People in the stands think you're the greatest or the worst - their opinion doesn't make a difference. The only opinion that makes any difference is your own opinion of yourself. Nobody can make you a loser - Dan Marino, Sr.

• I keep an internal scoreboard.  If I do something that others don't like but I feel good about, I'm happy.  If others praise something I've done, but I'm not satisfied, I'm unhappy - Warren E. Buffett

• Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. .... Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try - Judge Sherman Finesilver

• Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. I just kept knocking on doors until the right one opened - H. Joseph Gerber

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