All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. -- Albert Camus, writer and philosopher

By leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US president

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” ― John Muir

If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs. -- Dhirubhai Ambani, entrepreneur

I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else. -- Booker T. Washington, educator, writer and orator

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. ... This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. -- Steve Jobs, entrepreneur

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek. -- Mario Andretti, race car driver

"Long shots do come in, and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door." --John H. Johnson

He who is not every day conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer

“you can progress only when you learn the method of learning. Nothing has served me better in my long life than continuous learning.” Charlie Munger

"Look for a way to lift someone up. If that's all you do, it's enough." -- Elizabeth Lesser, American entrepreneur

"Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful." -- John Wooden, American basketball coach

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom." -- Sandra Day O'Connor, former U.S. Supreme Court justice

"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are." -- Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and writer

"We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure." -- Sydney Harris, American journalist

"High expectations are the key to everything." -- Sam Walton, American businessman

"He who stops being better stops being good." -- Oliver Cromwell, British military leader

“ The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance. ” — Peter Drucker

"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well." -- Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company." -- Charles Evans Hughes, American statesman

"He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it." -- Seneca, Roman philosopher

Fear is the parent of cruelty. -- James Anthony Froude, British historian

“It’s better to have a hole in your team than an asshole in your team!” -- Funding Circle CEO, Samir Desai

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. -- Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. president

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. -- Tom Blandi, French author

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
-- Tom Blandi, French author

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."-- Booker T. Washington,American educator, author and political leader

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."-- Booker T. Washington,American educator, author and political leader

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be --Thomas à Kempis, Dutch religious scholar

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. --James Baldwin, American novelist, essayist, playwright and poet

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. --James Baldwin, American novelist, essayist, playwright and poet

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. --Joseph Addison, British essayist

"I keep saying how brutally hard this is. Each time you crest the rise in front of you, it just makes it clear the size of the even larger hill that looms beyond it. It goes on for a long time. I pissed blood for years keeping Netflix alive while we figured that shit out – as did every other successful entrepreneur in the valley." Marc Randolph, the Founder & CEO of Netflix

"I keep saying how brutally hard this is. Each time you crest the rise in front of you, it just makes it clear the size of the even larger hill that looms beyond it. It goes on for a long time. I pissed blood for years keeping Netflix alive while we figured that shit out – as did every other successful entrepreneur in the valley." Marc Randolph, the Founder & CEO of Netflix

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."--Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born American inventor

"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." --Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher

Several excuses are always less convincing than one. --Aldous Huxley, British author

The best leaders ... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols।--Tom Peters, American management expert

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. --Dorothea Brande, American writer and editor

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it --Confucius, Chinese philosopher

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. --Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist,author

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward." --Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president

“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things”. _ Tim Bray quoting Phil Karlton.

“I am always surprised at how many people have no goals. They simply let life’s river flow them downstream.” -- Unknown

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to battle at ...

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to battle at all, to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable. --Audre Lorde, American poet and writer

Opportunity is like a hair on a bald-headed man; it only comes around once and you have to grab it while it's there. --Joycelyn Elders

Opportunity is like a hair on a bald-headed man; it only comes around once and you have to grab it while it's there. --Joycelyn Elders, First African-American U.S. surgeon general

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"When you let go of your doubts you also let go of your limitations." -Lucy MacDonald

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi. --Alan Alda, American actor, director & screenwriter

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. --John Neal, American author and critic

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. --Warren Buffett