I love quotes. They have move people. They can affect change in people. They can inspire. Every so often I feel beaten and defeated and sometimes find comfort in some of these peoples’ words.

If you follow my tweets or my Facebook updates, these shouldn’t be new.

“If you want to win, you have to pay the price – it’s not that complicated.” -Michael Jordan

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“Outhustle everyone that you know that’s doing the same thing you are.” – Ramon DeLeon http://bit.ly/r5qE

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”-Thomas Edison http://bit.ly/J7olv

“The way to succeed is to double your error rate.” – Thomas J. Watson

“Don’t worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test… Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap – but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.” – Guy Kawasaki

“We don’t ask consumers what they want. They don’t know. Instead we apply our brain power to what they need, and will want, and make sure we’re there, ready” – Akio Morita CEO of Sony on the Walkman and other innovations.

“As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates

“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.” – Thomas Edison

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” – Benjamin Franklin

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

“You must taste the bitter before you taste the sweet” – old wushu saying

“The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.” – Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michaelangelo

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” – Alexander the Great