Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Richard Branson

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.

Frank A. Clark

It is only the first step that is difficult.

Marie De Vichy-Chamrond

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

Masaru Ibuka, Sony founder

Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.

Tony Hsieh, co-founder of Zappos

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

Jason Calacanis, founder of Mahalo search engine

If you have an urge to build something that could change the world, don’t focus on the money, but the legacy you’ll leave behind.

Alexander Tamas

In your career, knowledge is like a carton of milk: it has a shelf life and if you’re not replacing everything you know every couple of years, then your career is going to turn sour just like that carton of milk.

Louis Ross, Ford Motor Company’s Chief Technical Officer, addressing a group of engineering students.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

Steve Martin

If you don’t fail at least 90 percent of the time, you’re not aiming high enough.

Alan Kay, the scientist who conceived the idea of laptop computer and graphical user interface currently used in computers today.