Entrepreneurship

“One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer ‘no’ time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent – among them he finds his stage.”

 

Criss Jami, Killosophy

Relationship

“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him — or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”

 

Dorothy L. Sayers

Competence

“It’s easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It’s simple to seek substitutes for competence—such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.”

 

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Creativity

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

 
R. Buckminster Fuller

Character

“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”

 
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Courage

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”

 

Desmond Tutu

Innovation

“Never confuse movement with action.”

 

Ernest Hemingway

Competence

“We pass judgements as to merits in areas we have no competence.”

 

Benson IV

Creativity

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.”

 

Albert Einstein

Courage

“Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.”

 

Theodore Roosevelt