"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
Bill Gates (1955 - )
founder of Microsoft
"Always aim for achievement,
and forget about success."
Helen Hayes (1900-1993)
American actress
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
35th U.S. president,
youngest person ever elected to the U.S. presidency
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
American poet
But they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
American poet
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome."
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
English critic & poet
"Pain is temporary.
Quitting lasts forever."
Lance Armstrong (1971 - )
U.S. cyclist, 7-time winner of the Tour de France
cancer survivor
"Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free-- and worth a fortune."
Sam Walton (1918-1992)
founder of Wal-Mart
"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve:
the fear of failure."
Paulo Coelho (1947 - ), from "The Alchemist"
Brazilian writer
"Inches make the champion."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
Hall of Fame football coach
I realized that selling is the
greatest career a man could want.
Willy Loman
in "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller
greatest career a man could want.
Willy Loman
in "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller
"The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing."
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
American entrepreneur,
movie producer and showman
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
American entrepreneur,
movie producer and showman
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
Michael Jordan (1963 - )
NBA basketball player, businessman
Michael Jordan (1963 - )
NBA basketball player, businessman
"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
Babe Ruth (1895-1948)
American baseball player
holds the No. 3 spot for
most home runs of all time with 714
Babe Ruth (1895-1948)
American baseball player
holds the No. 3 spot for
most home runs of all time with 714
"To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it."
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
Indian missionary, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
Indian missionary, Nobel Peace Prize winner
"I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Irish playwright & critic
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Irish playwright & critic