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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure. Colin Powell

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. Josh Billings

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. Harold S Geneen

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. Paul Tournier  

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Walter Scott

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Robert H Schuller  

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Laurence J Peter

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. Stanislaw Lem

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Thomas A Edison

The leader who exercises power with honour will work from the inside out, starting with himself. Blaine Lee

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Charles Kettering

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. Harry Emerson Fosdick

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. William Wordsworth

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. Herbert Hoover

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. Peter Drucker

All lasting business is built on friendship. Alfred A Montapert

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. John Greenleaf Whittier

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Robert H Schuller

For a lot of people, the weekly pay cheque is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it. Charles A Chaffe

Effort only fully releases it's reward after a person refuses to quit. Napolean Hill

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. J Paul Getty

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. Adlai E Stevenson

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. Arnold H Glasow

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that brings friends with them. W Edwards Deming

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. Adam Smith

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie

It's easy to make a buck, it's a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. A C Benson

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable. Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. William Feather

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves as something to aim at. Bruce Lee

As you think, so shall you be. Bruce Lee

I fear not the man who has practiced 10 000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10 000 times. Bruce Lee

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. Bruce Lee

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. Bruce Lee

The possession of anything begins in the mind. Bruce Lee

To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities. Bruce Lee

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. Bill Gates

Mens best successes come after their disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. William B Sprague

Fortune favours the brave. Publius Terence

He who hesitates is lost. Proverb

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. John B Gough

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