You and I are cut from the same stone. Unique and wonderful. Crazy and tenacious. Yes — they call us “entrepreneurs”. So as we head into 2013 — I built this list for us. Read… Ponder… Share… 1 – “The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.” – Michael Gerber 2 – “If you want to be inventive — you have to be willing to fail.” – Jeff Bezos 3 – “Purpose is a soft virtue — but it’s what gives you steel in your spine.” – Rich Karlgaard 4 – “The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.” – Jim Collins 5 – “Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.” – A. G. Buckham 6 – “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates 7 – “Don’t treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.” – Chris Brogan 8 – “There are a thousand excuses for failure, but never a good reason.” – Mark Twain 9 – “Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan — create ten businesses.” – Robert Kiyosaki 10 – “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker 11 – “I’m not a businessman — I’m a business, man.” – Jay-Z 12 – “If plan “A” fails — remember you have 25 letters left.” – Chris Guillebeau 13 – “We make a living by what we get. But we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill 14 – “The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win — you’re still a rat.” – Lily Tomlin 15 – “You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” – Walt Disney 16 – “Believe that you will succeed — and you will.” – Dale Carnegie 17 – “Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.” – Og Mandino 18 – “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump 19 – “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach 20 – “Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.” – Napoleon Hill 21 – “Being great at everything is not an actionable message.” – Floris Maljers 22 – “Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.” – General George Patton 23 – “If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.” – Benjamin Franklin 24 – “Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” – Steve Jobs 25 – “It’s not about how to get started; it’s about how to get noticed.” – Steve Case 26 – “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.” – John Shedd 27 – “Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.” — Apostle Paul 28 – “If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.” – Thomas Edison 29 – “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle 30 – “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson 31 – “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn 32 – “If we don’t allow ourselves to make mistakes, we will never invest in things that are radical.” – Jeff Clavier 33 – “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.” - Nolan Bushnell 34 – “Success is one thing — but impact is another.” – Ray Lewis 35 – “I own my business. My business doesn’t own me.” – Cherie Ve Ard 36 – “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou 37 – “Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein 38 – “You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.” – John Lennon 39 – “If you have any more than three priorities; you have no priorities.” – Maggie Fox 40 – “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” – John C. Maxwell 41 – “Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.” – Theodore Roosevelt 42 – “In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.” – David Ogilvy 43 – “Success is doing what you want, where you want, when you want, with whom you want and as much as you want.” – Tony Robbins 44 – “If you don’t have a competitive advantage — don’t compete.” – Jack Welch 45 – “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne 46 – “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” – Zig Ziglar 47 – “Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” – Napoleon Hill 48 – “If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti 49 – “Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs 50 – “Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”— – Henry David Thoreau 51 – “Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.” – Benjamin Franklin 52 – “Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.” – W. Clement Stone 53 – “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein 54 – “Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda 55 – “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” – Abraham Lincoln 56 – “Capitalism will save us.” – Steve Forbes 57 –
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