It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

Alfred P. Sloan

Rejection isn't a sign of failure. Rejection is a reminder that there's always room for improvement.

Ana Hart

..and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people-preferably our parents, our spouses or our children-for our failure to realize our dreams.

Paulo Coelho

So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time

William Shakespeare

There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.

Eric Ries

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

Jane Mayer

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.

Meriwether Lewis

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honore de Balzac

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

Salma Hayek

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

Phyllis Diller

Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.

Walter A. Shewhart