Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
Will Rogers
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
Unknown
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
Success depends on how you react to unexpected opportunities.
Ross Perot
The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.
Scott Adams
Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it.
Chinese Proverb
"Perfect" is the enemy of "good enough", and "Good enough" is the enemy of "At all"...[source]
Paul Buchheit
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ninety percent of life is just showing up.
Woody Allen
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs
The easy thing to do is nothing. But continuing on the current path is a time-tested formula for complacency.[source]
Jason Fried
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspiration and genius--one and the same.
Victor Hugo
If you would create something, you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb
There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Ovid
To know thy enemy is to know thy self.
Sun Tzu
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.[source]
Howard Zinn
Be the first, be the best, or be different.
Jacyln Easton
Elegance is for tailors. Don't always believe in the numbers. There is always room for human judgment.
Albert Einstein
Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.
Albert Camus
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is, I don't know which half.
John Wanamaker
I do not love the money. What I love is the making of it.
Philip Armour
I guess we can make them, although we never have.
Benjamin Franklin Goodrich
I never gamble.
J. P. Morgan
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Charles Schwab
If you're going to lose money, lose it. But don't let 'em nose you out.
Gustavus Swift
If you love an idea, that is good. If you have ideas as to how to work it out, that is better.
Henry Ford
It's a barrier to entry because you're shooting at a moving target.
Bill George
Name the greatest inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain
Nothing, not all the armies of the world, can stop an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Perceived truth is more powerful than truth itself.
Michel Fortin
Purchasers are made, not born.
Henry Ford
The ancestor to every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The march of improvement in any given field is always marked by periods of inactivity and then by sudden bursts of energy which revolutionize existing methods sometimes in a day.
George Eastman
There was never a great character who did not sometimes smash the routine regulations and make new ones for himself.
Andrew Carnegie
Think a lot. Say little. Write nothing.
J.P. Morgan
If first an idea is not absurd, it has no hope for survival.
Albert Einstein
To lead people, walk behind them.
Sun Tzu
We study the methods of improving our business as we would a science. We imitate no one.
A. Montgomery Ward
We took what was a luxury and made it into a necessity. Our only advantage was lack of precedent.
Henry Ford
What others could not or would not do we would attempt, and this was a rule of business which was strictly adhered to.
Andrew Carnegie
You can't get wet from the word "water".
Alan Watts
You can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it.
Albert Einstein
The prisoner falls in love with his chains.
Edsger Dijkstra
The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.
Calvin Coolidge
The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.[source]
Calvin Coolidge
...Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.[source]
Calvin Coolidge
...Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.[source]
Calvin Coolidge
...Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.[source]
Calvin Coolidge
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Mabel Newcomber
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson
The prisoner falls in love with his chains.
Edsger Dijkstra
A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
Colin Powell
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.[source]
Derek Sivers
Don’t ship the org chart.
Steven Sinofsky
"Imagination is more important than knowledge for while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."
Albert Einstein
Lazy is as lazy doesn't.
Mike Haeg
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.
William Gibson
Our normal approach is useless here Perhaps this can be our new rallying cry. If it's a new problem, perhaps it demands a new approach. If it's an old problem, it certainly does.[source]
Seth Godin
The brick walls are not there to keep us out, they are there to give us a chance to show us how badly we want something.
Randy Pausch
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often better than a master of one.
Adam Savage
Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.
Paul Graham
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
If he is weak in the knees, let him not call the hill steep.
Henry David Thoreau
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
It's like trying to explain to the Amazon River, the Mississippi, the Congo and the Nile how the coming of the Atlantic Ocean will affect them. The first thing to understand is that river rules will no longer apply.[source]
Douglas Adams
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.
Steve Jobs
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.
Steve Jobs
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway’s Law (Melvin Conway)
Don’t ship the org chart.
Steven Sinofsky
Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
Reed Hastings
What’s the Unique Selling Proposition? Can you put it in five words? Will your mother or anybody else say ‘Oh my god I’ve got to have it.’
Mark Pincus
Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.
Sun Tzu
If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
George S. Patton
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George S. Patton
The genius is always puzzled by answers, it is the fool who is satisfied by them.
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker
Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.
Dieter Rams
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
Team Leads: They're keeping the whole project in their head at once so that people can use them as a resource to check decisions against. The leads serve the team, while acting as centers for the teams.
Valve Employee Handbook
You were hired to constantly be looking around for the most valuable work you could be doing.
Valve Employee Handbook
Similarly, in software, you can't be thinking about which programming language you are using, and whether you are using MongoDB or MySQL, or whether photogrid layouts are the hot new thing or not. You will never hit the proverbial fastball if that is the sort of junk filling your head. Rather, creating and shipping products needs to be muscle memory.[source]
Dalton Caldwell
Don’t worry about whether something is right or wrong, just try to find out what is going on.
Alan Kay
Innovation happens as a result of bringing together knowledge, IQ and point of view.
Alan Kay
Innovation is a change that creates a new dimension of performance.
Peter Drucker
Do things that have never been done before.[source]
Russell Kirsch
I guess, I’ve always believed that nothing is withheld from us what we have conceived to do. Most people think the opposite – that all things are withheld from them which they have conceived to do and they end up doing nothing.[source]
Russell Kirsch
Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.
John Carmack
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
John Carmack
...Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way... ...And then the one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run you missed the starting gun... ...The time is gone the song is over, thought I'd something more to say...
Pink Floyd
You can get so confused that you’ll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles cross weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place… …for people just waiting.[source]
Dr. Seuss
More companies die of indigestion than from starvation.
David Packard
Live in the future, then build what's missing.
Paul Graham
Initially you have to choose between building something lots of people like a little bit, or something a few people like a lot. Choose the latter.
Paul Graham
No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.
Bill Joy - "Joy's Law"
You gotta swing to hit it.
Rose Marie Hedrington
A solution is a something. But a something isn’t always a solution.[source]
Mariusz Lapinskii
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
William Shakespeare
When it’s darkest, men see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
General George S. Patton
When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.
John Neal
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
Anonymous
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Ben Johnson
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.
Jack London
The true delight is in the finding out rather than the knowing.
Isaac Asimov
Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it.
Gary Hamel
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert B. Swope
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charles Kettering
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Everett Dirksen
Without customers you don't have a business. You have a hobby.
Don Peppers & Martha Rogers
If things seem under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti
Judge a man by his questions, not by his answers.
Voltaire
The minute you’re satisfied with where you are, you aren’t there anymore.
Tony Gwynn
Speed is useful only if you are running in the right direction.
Joel Baker
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie
An organization becomes bewildered rather than energized when it’s asked to do too much at once.
Michael Hammer & James Champy