Quotes to Inspire

"I do what I love and getting an escape from it... helps me be more creative." - Maria Marsala Founder of Elevating Your Business,  Financial Advisor Coach, Trainer, Speaker, Author

More about Maria Marsala: Maria brings more than 30 years experience to her role as founder of Elevating Your Business, working with advisory firm owners, RIA's, financial firm executives, broker-dealer firms, custodians, and small business owners. She is regarded for her sensible, insightful, forward thinking strategic marketing and business advice grounded in practical best business practices. As a trusted advisor she provides 1 to 1 and/or group consulting, coaching, and courses. 

"Inspiration is the food of design. All ideas are welcome." - Peter Moon  

"Technology has always been only as important as the improvement it could bring to people's lives. The key to success has almost nothing to do with technology and everything to do with how people work together." - Peter Moon - Managing Partner at Navicet

More about Peter - Before his life in tech, Peter was a cabinet maker, built harpsichord keyboards on the coast of Maine, led bike tours from the summit of a 10,000 foot Hawaiian volcano 38 miles down to sea level while riding backwards to keep an eye on his guests, and ran a surf-wear manufacturing shop. 

"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." - Morpheus

“It is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.” – Little bald boy who bends spoons

"One percent improvement in 1,000 things is better than 1,000% improvement in one thing." -  Tom Peters

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”  ― Tom Peters

“If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.” ― Tom Peters

“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” 
― Tom Peters

"Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast." - Tom Peters

"The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people." - Tom Peters

"Bloom where you're planted." - Carola Smail SLP

"The hell with dignity, I'll leave when the job is done." - M
(in James Bond movie Skyfall)

The true identity of James Bond’s MI6 boss has finally been revealed by an eagle-eyed fan watching Skyfall.

Mystery has long surrounded 007’s mentor, known only by her codename M, but her real name has been unveiled as Olivia Mansfield.

"I do not consider a sale complete until goods are worn out and the customer still satisfied. We will thank anyone to return goods that are not perfectly satisfactory...Above all things we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer." - L.L. Bean, 1912. These words were found in their first circular.

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."  - Earl Nightingale

"Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself."  -  Viktor E. Frankl

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." - Roger Bannister

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier – not because of the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do it has increased." -  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance." - Nancy Bleeke

"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense." - Marcus Aurelius (121–180)