Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.

Your mission or purpose is like a magnet that keeps you moving is a well established direction

Your Core Values are the "glue" that holds your business together.

The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.

Your business values can make you soar above the competition.

Even during a mid-life crisis do not deviate from your goal. History remembers only those who succeed.

When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.

Innovative ideas are the golden wealth of a growing business

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

When you do it, you are not another dreamer

Let them ask who you are but do not let others dictate who you should be.

Money Can make things better but a perfect relationship makes your life complete.

The Shoes Should fit! you can't build a business that is not yours.

Once you believe that you can do something, there is not a single person in the universe who can convince you otherwise.

With the world now a global village, your vision has to transcend different races and faces in different places around the world.

We cannot choose our circumstances, but we can choose how we handle them.

The Business of Our Firm is Business"-Donald W. Hudspeth from:"The Business of America is Business"-Calvin Coolidge

You have to work on the business first before it works for you.

Research on the human brain has shown it is predisposed to think in the terms of a story.36 This predisposition is continuously reinforced and strengthened throughout the life of your brain. Imaging studies have shown only a small, quarter-sized region of your brain lights up when someone tells you a series of facts. However, when someone tells you a story laced with those facts, or those facts in action, your entire brain lights up. Not only can you program your mind with a story — you can program someone else’s mind.

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!

Entrepreneur, noun: someone who takes calculated risks to add value to wider society with the hope of making money and building wealth

Remember, you will always fail in business if you don't try to open your own business.

Always consider who you’re learning from. Don’t listen to people who are not experiencing the success you want.

No matter what your reason for wanting to start your own business, developing the foundation is the same. Laying a solid foundation for you business will provide you with a road map to follow as you build your business. As you work through the Start a Business Step-by-Step Workbook you will define the company’s mission, decide what business entity is right for your business, name your business, determine the pricing for your products or services, formulate your financial projections, define your competitors, survey consumers regarding your products or services, determine the marketing methods right for your business and more.

Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?

The boys just wanted to light the oven, but they ended up burning down the whole business and the family home. The children were saved, but the Ole Kirk Kristiansen's future looked bleak.Ole Kirk was a religious man; his optimism and sense of humour were well-known far beyond the local boundaries. Where others would have folded their hands in their laps and accepted their fate, he did not give up. With the courage born of desperation, he rebuilt his business on a larger and more expensive scale than it had been previously - and more so than he could afford: Many rooms had to be sublet, and the Kristiansens themselves only used a small part of the building. Apprentices were no longer paid, but received board and lodging instead. Life continued, somehow.

The cheapest route to a new opportunity is conversation.

A small businesses ability to gain an edge for a profitable niche is not by just focusing on the dynamic market gap, but by identifying a market within the gap.

I delegate, therefore I am.

Banks should actively encourage companies that are doing a good job on environmental and social fronts. Banking for community development is the banking of future.

CRM is rather boring in itself. It's the fortune you can make using CRM that makes it so interesting.

You are in control of your priorities – you can erase old priorities and define new priorities at will.

I had worked for others for many years and didn't like the idea of someone else holding my future in their hands; it was time to do something on my own.- Jerri Graham, Nothin' But Granola