The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

Laura Ingraham

Part of my life is saving life.

Dith Pran

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Alfred Tennyson

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Aeschylus

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

Michael Jackson

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

Jean Cocteau

The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Elbert Hubbard

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

Gale Sayers

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

Greg Bear

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories, they are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of diversion and preference.

John Dewey, The Influence of Dar