“If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business — you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!”
– Michael E. Gerber, The E-Myth

“Nothing interesting can come out of your brain that you don’t first put in”
– Verne Harnish, SCALING UP: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the REST Don’t

“It’s up to you to dictate your business’ rate of growth as best you can by understanding the key processes that need to be performed, the key objectives that need to be achieved, the key position you are aiming your business to hold in the marketplace.”
― Michael E. Gerber, The E-Myth

“Tomorrow morning when you look in the mirror after you’ve gotten up, just write – in lipstick or whatever you want, on the mirror – just put: Delight my customer, Not satisfy my customer, delight my customer.”
– Warren Buffet

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
– Warren Buffett

“Logic helps people to think, but emotion urges them to act.”
– Allan Weiss

“A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better.”
– Richard Brandon

“When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. If you listen, you may learn something new.”
– His Holiness the Dalai Lama

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

“When we run from fear we avoid growth. When we turn to face our fear we’re already growing.”
– Bodhipaksa

“Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.”
– Thomas Edison

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
– Steve Jobs

“The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.”
– Zig Ziglar

“You can always make another dollar, but you can not make another minute.”
– Allan Weiss

“If you don’t know where you are going, it’s hard to know how to get there”
– Erika Andersen

“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear.”
– Socrates

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
– Hafez (14th century Persian poet)