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“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
― Leonardo da Vinci
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison
― Thomas A. Edison
“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
― Benjamin Franklin
― Benjamin Franklin
“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”
― Abraham Lincoln
― Abraham Lincoln
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
― Robert Frost
― Robert Frost
“If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.”
― Abraham Lincoln
― Abraham Lincoln
“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”
― Elbert Hubbard
― Elbert Hubbard
“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
― Robert H. Schuller
― Robert H. Schuller
“The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.”
― Benjamin Franklin
― Benjamin Franklin
“Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
“Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
“If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
“Instead of using their vastly increased material and technical resources to build a wonder-city, they built slums; and they thought it right and advisable to build slums because slums, on the test of private enterprise, "paid", whereas the wonder-city would, they thought, have been an act of foolish extravagance, which would, in the imbecile idiom of the financial fashion, have "mortgaged the future"; though how the construction to-day of great and glorious works can impoverish the future, no man can see until his mind is beset by false analogies from an irrelevant accountancy.”
― Richard Davenport-Hines, Universal Man: The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
― Richard Davenport-Hines, Universal Man: The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
“Still, I knew from that first moment that my tour on the Enterprise was going to be something special.” He shrugged. “The name carries that level of expectation, you know?”
― Dayton Ward, Armageddon's Arrow
― Dayton Ward, Armageddon's Arrow
“I’m most endeared to the fact that they used gifts and talents that were taught to them by other enterprising women who looked just like them. These are gifts and talents they brought with them from Africa and other distant shores. These were gifts and talents women used to appease their owners, and make their lives comfortable. These were gifts and talents used to fuel economies and for building communities. In one book I read, nickels from the sale of chicken eggs paid the college tuition of three children.”
― Robin Caldwell, When Women Become Business Owners
― Robin Caldwell, When Women Become Business Owners
“History is the collective consciousness of the then intellectuals and simply facts that show some numbers and events.”
― Sunny Menon
― Sunny Menon
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