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Conquering Fear

If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
Anita Roddick
British Businesswoman, Human Rights Activist, Environmental Campaigner
If you can’t stand the heat, don’t tickle the dragon.
Anonymous
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth.
Archimedes
Greek Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Inventor, Astronomer
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
American Polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates
American Businessman, Microsoft Founder
About right now is better than exactly wrong later.
Charles (Red) Scott
American CEO and Business Coach
Make sure that the best thing to happen to your customer today is you.
Christopher Chanski
VP Sales & Marketing, Illes Foods
There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel
American Fashion Designer
Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
Dale Carnegie
American Writer and Lecturer
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
American Politician, Sociologist and Diplomat
If a ruler’s anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great offenses to rest.
Ecclesiastes 10:4
There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.
Warren Buffet
American Investor
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the entrepreneur adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
Often Quoted Writer of Inspirational Maxims
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
English Statesman
Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.
Steve Martin
American Actor
With Early Stage companies, it’s never one thing. It’s always one thing after another.
Tim Cartwright
CEO, Tamiami Angels
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physicist: Developed the Theory of Relativity
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Daniele Varè
Italian Diplomat and Author
You want to learn from experience, but you want to learn from other people’s experience when you can.
Warren Buffett
American Investor
Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Charles (Red) Scott
American CEO and Business Coach
Simplicity is a virtue.
Ingvar Kamprad
Swedish Business Magnate, Founder of IKEA
I would rather fail at something I love than succeed at something I hate.
George Burns
American Comedian
Retail is detail.
John James Sainsbury
Grocer
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
People will remember stories long after they have forgotten your bullet points.
Laurie Beth Jones
Author, Consultant, Speaker and Coach
Give someone a book, they’ll read if for a day. Teach someone how to write a book and they’ll experience a lifetime of paralyzing self-doubt.
Lauren DeStefano
American Author
It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
Miles Davis
Jazz Musician
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
Mr. Garrison
“South Park” Character
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter Drucker
American Management Consultant, Educator and Author
Why should I worry about dying? It’s not going to happen in my lifetime.
Raymond Smullyan
Logician/Mathematician
No one ever confines a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
Renata Adler
American Author, Journalist and Film Critic
The old definition of leadership is ‘look at me, I’m a leader.’ But the new definition should be ‘No, actually, look at you – I’m listening.’
Pharrell Williams
American Singer-Songwriter
You can’t demand a withdrawal from someone you have not invested in.
Michael Bonner
Second Grade Teacher, South Greenville Elementary, Greenville, North Carolina
Big companies are amazing at coming up with reasons not to do things.
Tim Walsh
CEO, Ready Credit
We live to learn.
Snoop Dogg
American Rapper, Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Entrepreneur and Actor
The customer of my customer is my customer.
Author Unknown
People have a historical memory that goes back to breakfast.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Ninth Prime Minister of Israel
A fish doesn’t know it’s wet.
Author Unknown
It’s not success you want to be remembered for, but significance.
David Mas Masumoto
Author, “Wisdom of the Last Farmer”
I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present.
Donald Trump
Businessman, Television Personality, 45th President
I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.
Charles Lindbergh
American Aviator, Military Officer, Author, Investor, Explorer and Environmental Activist
We had a quote over the door that read, ‘Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.’
Elizabeth Holmes
Pepperdine Commencement Speech 2015
Accommodate changing times but cling to unchanging principles.
Jimmy Carter
39th U.S. President
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot
British Journalist, Businessman and Essayist
Religion either leads to a deeper reflection or a greater certainty.
Jim Wallis
Christian Writer and Political Activist
Let’s go invest tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
Steve Jobs
CEO and Co-Founder, Apple, Inc.
Profit gives us resources.
Ingvar Kamprad
Swedish Business Magnate, Founder of IKEA
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
Douglas Adams
Author
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Willie Nelson
American Musician, Songwriter, Producer, Singer, Actor and Activist
The root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James Baldwin
American Novelist and Social Critic
There is living and dying. There is no retirement.
Mel Brooks
American Filmmaker, Actor, Comedian and Composer
Try your best to make goodness attractive.
Fred Rogers
American Children’s Television Personality
Dad always used to say, ‘Tell me a fact, and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth, and I’ll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.’
Ed Sabol
Producer
Your faith needs to be greater than your fear.
Johnny Cash
Singer-Songwriter
I often tell would-be entrepreneurs that you have to be a little crazy or even masochistic to choose this life. The energy, endurance, optimism and just plain thick skin required aren’t for the faint of heart.
Don Smithmier
Small Business Owner, Entrepreneur, Songwriter
I believe that smart people working hard will eventually get lucky.
Erwin Kelen
Veteran Minneapolis Investor
If you‘re the smartest person in the room, you haven’t hired well.
Rory Brown
President, Bleacher Report
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim
American Writer
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
Groucho Marx
American Comedian, Writer, Stage, Film, Radio and TV Star
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
Alsatian Theologian, Organist, Writer, Humanitarian, Philosopher and Physician
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
French Statesman and Military Leader
The fact that others are bad does not imply that you are good.
Chinese Proverb
We was doin’ good till we blowed up!
Harry Gant
NASCAR Driver #42 Skoal Bandit
We’re imperfect people pursuing perfect ideas and there’s tremendous frustration in the gap.
Marc Andreessen
Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
English Statesman
I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas Edison
American Inventor