General

“Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.” 
~ Benjamin Franklin, statesman

“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”
~W. Somerset Maugham, writer

“You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”
~ Chuck Yeager, pilot

“To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.”
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter, educator

“The CEO’s role in raising a company’s corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge
sharing and collaboration.”
~ Brian O'Rourke

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, novelist

“Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.”
~ Brian Tracy, entrepreneur, motivational coach

“Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and
I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
~ George Bernard Shaw