19 citat för entreprenörskap och livet

Jag har en liten textfil på datorn där jag sparar ner de citat jag stöter på som jag känner resonerar med mitt sätt att se världen. Många av dem är kopplade till entreprenörskap eller filosofi på något sätt, men alla säger något om konsten att leva. Nedan 19 av mina favoritcitat, som sammanfattar vissa av de principer jag försöker leva efter.

Nycklar till framgång

”We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. ”
- Aristotle

”Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
- Albert Schweitzer

”Be the change you want to see.”
- Gandhi

”Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
- Woody Allen

”Excellence can be obtained if you care more than others think is wise, risk more than others think is safe, dream more than others think is practical, expect more than others think is possible.”
- Unknown

”It’s amazing what you can achieve if you do not care about who gets the credit”
- Truman

”If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse”
- Henry Ford

Resan

”The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

”The Journey is the Reward”
- Chinese Proverb

”The price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.”
- Neil Gaiman, Sandman

”Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
- Susan Ertz

”Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain

Att betala priset

A woman approached a virtuoso piano player after a particularly brilliant performance and said, ‘I’d give anything to play like that.’ He replied, ‘No, you wouldn’t.’
- Okänd

”I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.”
- Richard Branson

”The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
- Thomas Edison

Livet och lyckan

”A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
- Johann Von Goethe

”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

”Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
- John Lennon

”Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little.”
- Cheng Yen