"I spend most of my day writing. I write everything on our website. Communicating clearly is my top priority. Web writing is terrible, and corporate sites are the worst. You don't know what they do, who they are, or what they stand for. I spend a lot of time taking a sentence and reworking it until it's perfect. I love the editing process."

--Jason Fried, 37Signals.com

"I have a very simple philosophy on life. You shouldn’t steal from yourself. If you’re going to commit your life to an enterprise, wealth creation, the security and the financial well-being of your family… and if other people your staff, your team, your employees, your vendors are going to commit their lives to you, you owe it to yourself and to everyone else to get the highest and best results. You should never accept a fraction of the yield when with the same effort or less, the same people or fewer, the same time or less, the same capital or less, the same opportunity cost or less, can deliver so much more to you currently, and perpetually."

--Jay Abraham

"Confidence and competence is not the same thing. No one should go into their garden and chant, 'There are no weeds. There are no weeds. There are no weeds.' For people to be true leaders, they have to first see things as they are, not worse. Then see it better than it is, and then make it the way you see it."

--Anthony Robbins (as quoted in SUCCESS Magazine, January 2009)

"Competition doesn't breed innovation; it breeds conformity."

--Steve Miller (http://theadventure.com/)

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."

--Herbert B. Swope

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Bayard_Swope

"Selling stuff is easy. All you gotta do is give away stuff that makes people happy …and then sell stuff that makes ‘em even happier."

-- Frank Kern

"Negative criticism is easy because it is always possible to find fault with anything if one looks hard enough. It is quite easy to concentrate on the faults and ignore what is worthwhile. But the main and overriding attraction of criticism is that it at once makes the critic superior to what he is criticizing."

--Edward de Bono (http://www.debonothinking.com/)