Favorite Quotes

• "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca
• "Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't" - Bill Nye
• "Success is making those who believed in you look brilliant" - Dharmesh Shah
• "Some days it just flows and I feel like I’m born to do this, other days it feels like I’m trudging through hell. Every day I make the choice to show up and see what I’ve got, and to try and be better. My advice: keep showing up." - Des Linden
• “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” - Michelangelo
• "Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it, they will want to come back and see you do it again, and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do." - Walt Disney
• "Give the world what it doesn't even know it needs." - Nikesh Aurora
  
• “People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.  They went out and happened to things.” - Leonardo Da Vinci
• “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou
• “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill
• "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
• “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” - Babe Ruth
• "You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet." - Paul Hawken
• "Don’t be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done."  - Paul Hawken
• "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
• "Don’t think about what you want, think about what the world needs, and strive to fill that gap. Success is a game of inches." - Justine Musk
• "Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally.  Even if you miss, you’ll probably end up in a pretty good place." - Sam Altman
• "I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted.  I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard.  That’s all there is to me." - Akira Kurosawa
• "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude." - Oprah Winfrey
  
• "In the world of business the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love." - Warren Buffet
• "Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living." - Grenville Kleiser
• "What would you do if you were not afraid?" - Casey Gerald
• "Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny." - Aristotle
• "Every moment is a fresh beginning." - TS Eliot
• "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself.  When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." - Jack Welch
• "Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one." - Brad Paisley
• "I have no special talents, I’m only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
• "The only person you should try and be better than, is the person you were yesterday."
• "The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything."
• "When people say, 'You’re thinking too big,' be smart enough not to listen. And when they ask, 'How can you do that?' Look them in the eyes and say, 'I’ll figure it out.'"- Eric Schmidt
• "Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you set. Have a healthy disrespect for the impossible." - Larry Page
• "You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm."
• "Remember the footsteps, remember the words said...And all your little brother's favorite songs...I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone." - Taylor Swift
•  "Plan in decades. Think in years. Work in months. Live in days." - Nic Haralambous
• "Sympathy’s easy...Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and all that separates you is luck." - Dennis Lehane
• “Happiness is only real when shared” - Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
•  “Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if the forget what it was to be young.” - JK Rowling
• “We all need people in our lives who raise our standards, remind us of our essential purpose, and challenge us to become the best version of ourselves” - Matthew Kelly
• “There’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” - Scott Adams
  
• "Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory." - Dr. Seuss
• "If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes- then learn how to do it later." - Richard Branson
• "There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do."  - Derek Jeter
• "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
• "A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole." - TS Elliot
• “Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” - James Dean
  
• "The world will find your limitations. Only you will find your opportunities." - Mark Weinberger
• "When we try to pick out any­thing by itself, we find it hitched to every­thing else in the Universe." - John Muir
• "Don’t give up, don’t ever give up." - Jimmy Valvano
• "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." – Theodore Roosevelt
• "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 
• “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, than I can achieve it.” - Muhammad Ali
• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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   “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” - Leonardo Da Vinci
  It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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•  "The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - Augustine of Hippo
• "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
• "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." 
• "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama
• "If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on." - Sheryl Sandberg
• "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." John Wooden
• "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." John Wooden
• "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
• "Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before." - Clay Christensen
• "I’ve learned that strength, true strength, isn’t when you face down life’s challenges on your own, it’s when you take them on by accepting the help, faith and love of others and knowing you are lucky to have those." - Robin Roberts
• CFO asks CEO: "What happens if we invest in developing our people and then they leave us?"…CEO: "What happens if we don’t and they stay?"
• "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it." - Margaret Thatcher
• "Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.  The time will pass anyway." - Earl Nightingale  
• "I urge you to travel. As far and as much as possible...Throw yourself out of your comfort zone. Find out how other people live...And when you come home, home may still be the same, and yes, you may still go back to the same old job or school, but something in your mind will have shifted. And trust me, that changes everything."
• "Live a great story"
• "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door"
• "To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is." - Albert Einstein 
• “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” - Terry Pratchett
• “The best way to predict the future is to create it” - Abe Lincoln
• “Talent counts, but effort counts twice.” - Angela Duckworth - talent x effort = skill…..skill x effort = achievement 
• “I have always maintained that…men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work.” - Charles Darwin
• “I want to put a ding in the universe.” - Steve Jobs
• “The work of leadership is synonymous with becoming yourself – it’s precisely that difficult, and precisely that simple.” - Warren Bennis
• “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.  What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall
• "How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." - Winnie the Pooh
• "Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." - Sheryl Sandberg
• ”Somebody once told me the definition of hell: “On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” - Anonymous
• “A person who is happy is not happy because everything is right in his life, he is happy because his attitude towards everything in his life is right.” - Sundar Pichai
• “It’s not about the cards you’re dealt, but how you play the hand.” - Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
• "I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment." - Ralph Lauren
• "The most underrated skill in business and in life is empathy. The second most underrated skill is gratitude." - Dharmesh Shah
• "I would tell my younger self to dream bigger and take more risks early. I didn’t realize what I was capable of back then." - Rob Herjavic 
• "When consuming the news, don't look for information, but instead look for how people are interpreting the same set of situations." - Joseph Aoun