Don't base your venture on a plan. Instead base it on a strategic foundation.
You can have a plan, but know that it will change, probably a lot. The plan is fluid, the foundation stable.

Eric Schmidt

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time management is really self management. What separates the effective from the ineffective people is the way they manage themselves. Time management is really a misnomer. We all have 24 hours each day and time goes by whether we like it or not. It’s not something you can truly control. (...) [F]ocus on managing yourself and not on managing your time.

Thanh Pham

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves

Maria Edgeworth

Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important in the moment. It is a choice.

Brian Solis

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

If you have a burning desire and a plan to take action, there is absolutely nothing you cannot achieve.

Thomas J. Vilord

The fastest way to pass your own expectations is to add passion to your labor.

Mike Litman

The way in which a question is asked determines the way in which an answer may be found.

Heinz von Foerster.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

William Penn

Houd stug vast aan jouw doel, maar wees flexibel in je aanpak.

Anthony Robbins

Multi-tasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.

Jeremy Clarkson

Nothing is stronger than habit.

Ovidius

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Henry Ford

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hope.

Andrew Carnegie

There is great power in focusing on what you want..... The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all things to everyone. And so they end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius nailed the point: "Person who chases two rabbits catches neither."

Robin Sharma

The world's best and cheapest personal productivity tool: the word 'No'.

Robin Sharma

Wie te traag optreedt, verspeelt zijn kans; wie te snel toeslaat, zijn krachten.

Niccoló Machiavelli

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

We zijn dat wat we bij herhaling doen.

Aristoteles

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Jimmy Johnson

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Earl Nightingale

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Albert Ellis

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Bruce Lee

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time.Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Vince Lombardi

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Veronica A. Shoffstall

Pak het moeilijke aan als het nog makkelijk is. Doe het grote als het nog klein is.

Lao Tse

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times i fell down and got back up again.

Nelson Mandela

Je  hoeft niet de hele trap te zien om de eerste stap te zetten.

Martin Luther King

Viewed from the lens of brain science, emotions are elegant shortcuts that allow us to generate feelings that guide us towards or away from a course of action. Without emotion, we are biologically incapable of making decisions. Logic is often the last step in the process.

Janet Crawford

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.

Warren Buffett

You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.

Charles C. Noble

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.

Ralph Waldo Trine

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspiration exists but it has to find you working.

Pablo Picasso

Success is sequential, not simultaneous

Garry Keller

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Voltaire

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

William Edwards Deming

Nothing contributes so much to tranquililise the mind as a steady puprose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Visualizing something organizes one’s ability to accomplish it.

Stephen Covey

Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

Susan Cain

Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.

Scott Adams

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.

Susan Cain

The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.

Brian Tracy

Wat een wijs mens wijs maakt, is niet dat hij meer heeft dan anderen,
maar dat hij meer aandacht aan zijn ervaringen schenkt dan anderen.

Andrew Cohen

De deur van het geluk gaat naar binnen open.

Sören Kierkegaard

Wie slim wil lijken, praat.
Wie slim wil worden, luistert.

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

Ralph. G. Nichols

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Ray Kroc

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin