Every part of your success is dependent upon one individual. You are that individual. You’re in charge. You say when to begin. You’ve got the insight to make the right decisions now. To succeed, you’re going to need that insight, along with courage and conscientiousness. If you’re frightened of making mistakes, you’re sunk. Accept that you’ll make mistakes. Each one has a lesson to be learned.

Michael Eisner, chairman and CEO of Disney, and the man who propelled it to undreamt of success, says, "At a certain level, what we do at Disney is very simple. We set our goals, aim for perfection, inevitably fall short, try to learn from our mistakes, and hope that our successes will continue to outnumber our failures." There’s nothing Mickey Mouse about that kind of philosophy -- because it embraces mistakes as part of the process.

--Jay Conrad Levinson (Guerilla Marketing)

"Logic makes you think; emotion makes you act." -- Alan Weiss

"Our present satisfaction [with our state of understanding] may reflect the paucity of the data rather than the excellence of the theory."
--Martin Rees

"I find the best time management is based in pure clarity around my near term goals. That works well and nothing else works at all."
--Paul Lemberg
http://www.be-unreasonable.com/blog/
http://www.paullemberg.com/

"Before you worry about whether to do something, or how to do something, ask yourself WHY you are considering doing something."
-- Alan Weiss, Summit Consulting Group

"Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them."
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"Hope is not a good plan."

--Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (among other things)

[ Advice we could all use on a wallet sized card to carry around to be pulled out every few years... Bubbles...bubbles...bubbles... don't you mean bath bubbles? No, not those ones... Don't your remember when....? Nah... ]

"If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise -- ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out."

--Seth Godin - In Praise of the Purple Cow