“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.”
~ Salvador Dali

"Play on people's need to believe to create a cult-like following."
~ 48 Laws of Power

"In every email –
Story
Tip
Offer
In that order."
~ Terry dean

"The keys to a productive life… ...wake up early ...limit interruptions ...make a little progress everyday ...say no (a lot) ...learn from your mistakes ...pick yourself back up when you slip ...waste no time measuring yourself against other people."
~ The Daily Stoic

"You don't need to be a great writer, you just need to create vision and people will buy from you."
~ Advice from Jim Camp ~ Feared negotiator.

"Customers are loyal to one thing: Experiences.
Personalisation is the key to meaningful customer experiences."
~ Unknown

"Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable."
~ Unknown

"The best marketing doesn't feel like marketing."
~ Tom Fishburne

"Be alone, that is the secret of invention;
be alone, that is when ideas are born."
~ Nikola Tesla

"Focusing is about saying no."
~ Steve Jobs

“Write when you can't stop writing. Read when you stopped writing!”
~  Robert Ahanes

“Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.”
~ Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet

"Picking five favourite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose."
~ Neil Gaiman

“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.”
~ Jack London

"This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."
~ Alan Watts

“All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.”
~ Fran Lebowitz

"I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling."
~ Carrie Fisher

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.”
~ George Bernard Shaw

"You write each day and read the stuff you've written and if it looks pretty good, well, you keep on going and eventually you have a book."
~ Kurt Vonnegut

“If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in… you will interest other people.”
~ Rachel Carson

"A good writer is always a bad socialite."
~ Robert Bruce

"Starve your distractions, feed your focus."
~ Daniel Goleman

"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it."
~ John Hall

"All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay."
~ Syd Field

" Don't try to write a great book, try to write a great sentence."
~ Robert Bruce

"Building a successful business model isn't about changing your company based on every bit of feedback. It's about understanding who to listen to and why."
~ Steve Blank

“I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.”
~ Sylvester Stallone

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."
~ Oscar Wilde

"People will never forget how you made them feel."
~ Maya Angelou

"God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius."
~ Anna Pavlova

"Success doesn't come to you. You go to it."
~ Marva Collins

“A writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.”
~ Burton Rascoe

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
~ Steven King

“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
~ Ray Bradbury

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”
~ Isaac Asimov

“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”
~ Stephen King

“Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet.”
~ Anon

"No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.”
~ Julia Cameron

"I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts."
~ Carrie Fisher

"Life is just a series of obstacles preventing you from reading your book."
~ The Heinlein Society

"I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal."
~ Albert Einstein

“Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.”
~ J.K. Rowling

"Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters."
~ Seth Godin

"Follow your dreams. They know the way."
~ Kobi Yamada

"It's always too early to quit."
~ Norman Vincent Peale

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."
~ Harry Golden

"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works."
~ Oscar Wilde

"Marketing is enthusiasm transferred to the customer."
~ Gregory Ciotti

"If you can take the love interest out and it's still a story, it's not a romance.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz, author

"I write because I cannot NOT write."
~ Charlotte Brontë

"The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it."
~ Leo Rosten