Quotes by Entrepreneurs - Page 45

Throw a champion into the ocean, and he’ll swim.Throw a champion into the pit, and he’ll climb.Throw him off a cliff, and he’ll grow wings.Throw him into a furnace, and he’ll become gold.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Why fish in the pond when you live right next to the sea?
Matshona Dhliwayo
You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life.
Heather Schuck
Take one step towards excellence,and success will take ten towards you.Take ten steps towards excellence,and success will take a hundred towards you.Take a hundred steps towards excellence,and success will take a thousand towards you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Books record knowledge,preserve wisdom,and disseminate information;nourishing minds, changing lives.
Matshona Dhliwayo
That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. [BusinessWeek, May 25 1998]
Steve Jobs
Wisdom’s slaves are better than folly’s kings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Despite what you might think, NORMAL people do NOT cause problems, misfortunes, conflicts, distress or accidents. And when they do, they CAN apologize and recognize their negative influence. A person that causes these things and can’t assume any responsibility for them is, apart from showing the cognitive and moral level of a child, deserving nothing more than abandonment, because she is dangerous at all levels and can hurt, or even kill, someone BY ACCIDENT, including herself and whoever is with her. A person like this DOES NOT deserve any TRUST for ANYTHING, ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING.
Robin Sacredfire
Listen until you're the smartest.Learn until you're the wisest.Live until you're the merriest.Love until you're the kindest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Sophie Bach from The Maker:You’re a human being with a personality and a will, and you make choices and think and create. Is there no meaning to you, Adrien Bach?And what about us? Is the way we feel about each other just simulated emotions from some biological process—nothing more?
Wes Moore
Encourage many,enlighten many,and you will empower many.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Success gives in to those who truly desire her.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Ban privileges. The rules of the game should be the same to all players, regardless of their size, location, or any other criteria
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact... It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.
Seth Godin
Singing in a storm silences thunder’s threats.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greater the number of fish a river bears the greater the number of fishermen that patronize it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If school is about postponing the day you have to stand up in front of the world and put yourself at risk, the resistance would like to stay there forever.
Seth Godin
When Trying To Achieve Your Dreams, Never Let Anyone or Anything Stand in Your Way
Chris Mentillo
Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay optimistic in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay hopeful in impossible situations, you are great.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Depression is not an absence of happiness, it’s a feeling that happiness may never return.
Steven Aitchison
Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.
Steve Jobs
If size really mattered, a match wouldn’t be able to set a forest on fire.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Because the moon is not jealous of the sun, it benefits from its light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It’s not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us.
Roger James Hamilton
Flowers are conscious, intelligent forces. They have been given to us for our happiness and our healing.We can hasten our own evolution by through employing the tools offered to us by a conscious, caring Mother Nature—flowers and their essences.Flower essences allow us to see into the soul of things—into ourselves, our world, and all living beings.Flower essences are a response to the call of an ever-awakening humanity to minister to its spiritual needs.Mother Nature’s pharmacy has long been accessible to those who have pried open her botanical medicine chest. And to those who wish to learn her language—the language of flowers—she bestows her most wonderful secrets of perfect well-being.In keeping with herbalism’s ancient tradition of communing with the plant kingdom, flower essences have evolved as a natural expression of healing—in the simplest ways, through the simplest means.(The) principle of magnetism is strongly operative in flower essences that vibrationally align us with the positive qualities that we seek to uncover within ourselves.How, then, do flower essences work? Very well indeed.
Lila Devi
You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that you would never do anything.
Tom Monaghan
Light poured out multiplies light poured in.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It's not the speed that will help you succeed. It's the right DIRECTION.
Mohith Agadi
Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you.
Seth Godin
Roses bloom whether you praise them or not.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If a lion invites you to dinner, turn down the offer, no matter how hungry you are.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The spirit of excellence exorcises the demon of mediocrity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Abandon anything in your life and habits that might be holding you back.
Sophia Amoruso
Success is the understanding, release and maximization of capacity.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
John Armato, a Public relations executive, cherishes his growing Library of Candidates. When people ask him if he's actually read all those books, he asks them if they've actually eaten all the food in their kitchen. "It is good to put up a supply of books; it increases the odds that you'll have what you want when you're hungry for it," he says
Steve Leveen
God hides treasure in dirt, so that only those humble enough to dig through it find it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Enmity dies when friendship is born.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Sometimes we have spent so long in the cage that it feels safer to be trapped inside.
Beth Kempton
Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like stars; instead of cursing the darkness, shine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Three factors must be present for meaningful organisational change to take place. These factors are_D= Dissatisfaction with how things are now. V= Vision of what is possible.F= First, concrete steps that can be takentowards the vision.If the product of these three factors is greater than R = Resistance then change is possible.
David Hieatt
To be a highflier and a name to conjure with, you must decide your dimension, plan your path, master the moment, focus on the future, determine your degree, push your persistence and leadyour life.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message.
Richie Norton
It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
People use masks in public and then wonder why their personal life, their relationships, don't work. If you're not being honest with others, there's nothing real about yourself to learn and, the wider the gap, the deeper the suffering. The heart wasn't meant to be closed in a box made of fake feelings and thoughts.
Robin Sacredfire
The rainbow’s colors are hidden in the storm.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose would be miserable if it was forced to be a daisy, no matter how much water it was fed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
He who strives for excellence strives for greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I just have to make it to the Tuichi' I mumbled to myself, 'I just have to make it to the Tuichi'.Alone, deep in the jungle, so small and insignificant, pitted against nature, still I sensed someone was watching me. Or watching over me.Someone could see me, someone was providing for me
Yossi Ghinsberg
Life is a stage: perform your masterpiece.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration,motivation, and a pinch of creativity
Bo Bennett
We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
Jeff Bezos
If you want to celebrate a happy occasion, Do it by helping those who are in need.
Mohith Agadi
A calm lion is still more dangerous than a raging dog.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The New Economy brings the need to tap people’s curiosity, quest for knowledge and understanding, in order to develop a sustainable society.
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
Great minds birth great ideas.Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas.Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas.
Matshona Dhliwayo