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Need a Quick Ship Gift? Visit our Quick Ship Gift Ideas section now. Some of our Favorite Quotes Business and Success Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?" - Benjamin Franklin Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. - Hesiod, Works and Days Saints and geniuses have often chosen a lonely position. - Margaret Fuller Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. - Orison Swett Marden Plant your own garden - don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. - Author Unknown The more I want to get things done, the less I call it work. - Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah) You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark. - Major Gen. Wallace Arnold, U.S. Army Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. - John Ruskin Destiny is never a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. - William Jennings Bryant Everyone is the architect of his own fortune. - Mathurin Regnier (1573-1613) You can make excuses. You can make money. But you can't do both. - Richard Carlson, PhD Hide not your Talents, they for Use were made: "What's a Sundial in the Shade?" - Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanac) When you think about it, America has been built in garages. - Ray Bradbury (1992 speech at DCOTA, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) Stick to your loves. It is your root system; keep it intact. - Ray Bradbury (1992 speech) Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein (Life magazine, May 1955) There are two ways of making money--one at the expense of others, the other by service to others. The first method does not make money, does not create anything: it only "gets" money--and does not always succeed in that. - Henry Ford (1928 speech) I look for what needs to be done...After all, that's how the universe designs itself. - R.Buckminster Fuller (Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 1964) In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first, the cash will come later. - Harold Geneed (Managing, 1984) As a small business person, you have no greater leverage than the truth. - Paul Hawken (Inc. magazine, Aug. 1987) The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. - Leontyne Price (Newsday, Feb. 1976) If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there? - Robert Townsend (Farther Up the Organization, 1984) Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) Drive thy business, or it will drive you. - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) We must find a way or make one. - Hannibal Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. - C.D. Jackson 
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