I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham LincolnWe don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.
Nipsey HussleWhat prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
James MadisonI knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.
Dwayne JohnsonDifficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. ForbesThis is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe harder I work, the luckier I become.
Terry PratchettEngland is a nation of shopkeepers.
Napoleon BonaparteWhen a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘
Maya AngelouAlthough the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
Pope FrancisI was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey HepburnNine men in ten are would be suicides.
Benjamin FranklinI went through a lot of battles in high school.
LeBron JamesThe farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.
Will RogersIt’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.
Steve JobsThere is no such thing as Something for nothing.
Napoleon HillA brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Jeff BezosThe last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIt needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
Jurgen KloppLet us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald ReaganThe last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.
Barack ObamaThe line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert HubbardPhilanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
Bill GatesI take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.
Conor McGregorIn college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.
Stephen CurryWith Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.
Richard BransonI try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.
Stephen CurrySome people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Jim RohnI dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
Lady GagaI always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
J. ColeYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
John D. RockefellerI always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.
Elon MuskYou can’t die with an unfinished book.
Terry PratchettAs a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.
Kevin HartI stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.
DJ KhaledIrrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.
Virat KohliGet up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
Bob MarleyFor a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
Richard BransonIt is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore RooseveltWhen you’re finished changing, you’re finished.
Benjamin FranklinThe Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.
Joyce MeyerA business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry FordIf your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel JohnsonThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
HippocratesThe world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
Bill GatesConfidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.
Lando NorrisAll good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott FitzgeraldBuild a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo EmersonModern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert FrostAs soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.
Taylor SwiftI am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.
Vincent Van GoghMy friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
Mark ZuckerbergThere is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis BaconWhen you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve JobsI didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin FranklinSuccess isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.
Kevin HartFounding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.
Mark ZuckerbergWe are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
Clint EastwoodThe greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!
Robert Kiyosaki