Failure is not a single cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

~ Jim Rohn

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

~ Albert Einstein

I have learned much from my teachers, even more from my colleagues, but I have learned most by far from my students.

~ Rabbi Hanina (Thou Shall Prosper, p 16)

Big results require big ambitions.

~ James Champy

A home without equity is just a renter with debt.

~ Josh Rosner

[a big goal is like] crossing an ocean. Some people try [by themselves], day after day,  … That’s like taking a rowboat across the ocean. It’s exhausting and usually unsuccessful.

Others have given up trying and throw themselves entirely on “relying on God’s grace.” They’re like drifters on a raft. They do nothing but hang on and hope God gets them there.

Neither trying nor drifting are very effective in [achieving the big goals]. A better image the sailboat, in which if it moves at all, it’s a gift of the wind. We can’t control the wind, but a good sailor discerns where the wind is blowing and adjusts the sails accordingly.

~ John Ortberg

Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas.

~ Unknown, thou some think Eleanor Roosevelt

How do we get to a different outcome? Given that you don’t vote? (Russ)

Work to build through the promulgation of ideas and by example: freedom and liberty. If that culture is built, it will be reflected in the political process. If people want to be led by the nose, they will be.

Don Boudreaux on Public Choice, Econtalk.org (1:05:10+)

Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.

~Hebrews 11:1

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

~ Warren Buffet

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

~ Conrad Hilton, founder, Hilton Hotels

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

~ Charles A. Beard

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

~ John F. Kennedy

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you are tired – you quit when the gorilla is tired.

~ Robert Strauss

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

~ Robert Townsend

I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.

~ Michael Jordan

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don’t dream I’ll make it, I won’t even get close.

~ Henry J. Kaiser

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

~ Derek Bok, former president, Harvard University

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

~ William Shedd

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

~ Ayn Rand

Every exit is an entrance to somewhere else.

~ Tom Stoppard

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You can not help the poor by destroying the rich. You can not keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You can not build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

~ Harold Taylor

If you say what you think, don’t expect to only hear what you like.

~ Malcolm Forbes

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

~ Thomas A. Edison

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

~W. Clement Stone

Assumptions are the death of possibilities.

~ James Mapes

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

~ Colin Powell

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

~Dr. Adrian Rogers

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

~ Charles Kingsley

The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases; If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

~Ronald Reagan

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

~ John Scully

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

~ Roy Disney

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

~ Napoleon Hill

It is better to understand who you are than where you are going for where you are going will almost certainly change.

~Jim Collins, Built To Last, Chapter 12

The foundation of doing good is doing well.

~ Peter Drucker

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

~ Washington Irving

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

~ Barbara Bush

People respond to incentives not just in markets but in any setting they find themselves in.

~Michael Munger on Econtalk

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

~ Charles M. Schwab

The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

~ Benjamin Mays

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

~ Migon McLaughlin

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential.

~ Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

~ Walter Anderson

I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
~ Anita Roddick