These are some of our favourite quotes and passages that we’ve collected over the years that we find inspiring or remind us of the types of challenges we need to keep for ourselves to continue to strive for greatness.
An optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s a cha-cha.
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing, success will be yours.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
I have not failed, I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
One has to passionately believe it is possible to change the industry, to turn it on its head, to make sure that it will never be the same again.
Everyone loves innovation until it affects them.
Some disappointment is always the price of brave dreaming.
No worries + no fear + no defeats = no life
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You will then have to catch up with them.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Happiness is like a skill to be learned and practiced, not a character trait.
Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy, and perseverance.
Most use technology to define the function. We use function to drive the technology.
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.
Children think not of what is past, nor what is to come, but enjoy the present time, which few of us do.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.
She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME and up she grew so tall. She ate from a plate called TASTE ME and down she shrank so small. And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin’ at all.
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
Someday isn’t a real day like Monday or Tuesday, it’s just another word for ‘never’.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
The first instinct in responding to this sudden economic crisis is to hunker down and wait for the storm to pass. That is the instinct, but acting on it would be a grave mistake. Our challenge today is radical transformation. Change at the margins will not do. The choice, it seems to me, is this: Reinvention or extinction. If we think it cannot happen to us, we ought to recall the fate of the Swiss watchmakers. Fabulous craftsmen, certainly, but the world has moved on, technologies have advanced, habits have shifted.
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