My business education started at the shallow end of a swimming pool and sometimes seemed like it was stuck in the deep end of a shark tank. But you keep going, and pretty soon you're on dry land. (Quote by - Max Markson)

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. (Quote by - Shakti Gawain)

To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,requires brains. (Quote by - Mary Pettibone Poole)

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand? (Quote by - Tom Peters)

You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans. (Quote by - Mr T)

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. (Quote by - Scott Alexander)

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)

I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world. (Quote by - Bill Gates)

Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked. (Quote by - Dannii Minogue)

People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives advice. Mr T helps people. I motivate them, I inspire them, I give them hope, and I plant the seed so they can feel good about themselves (Quote by - Mr T)

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down. (Quote by - Constance Baker Motley)

Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is. (Quote by - Anita Roddick)

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. (Quote by - Warren Bennis)

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money". (Quote by - Silvio Berlusconi)

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples- by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power. (Quote by - Stuart Wilde)

Perhaps my most important goal is to create a million millionaires. (Quote by - Mark Victor Hansen)

News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact. The unique potential.. and duty.. of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time. (Quote by - Rupert Murdoch)

First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it. (Quote by - David Filo)

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. (Quote by - Joseph Lancaster)

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)

The "as if" principle works. Act "as if" you were not afraid and you will become courageous, "as if" you could and you'll find you can. Act "as if" you like a person and you'll find a friendship. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)

I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after. (Quote by - Bono)

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. (Quote by - Boris Yeltsin)