No regrets...

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who don't. Believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it.

It's the business...

Learn the business, not just the technology.

- Ian Patterson, CIO, Scottrade

Subject to change...

Everything you're facing is subject to change. Problems are temporary. Everything negative is temporary.

- Joel Osteen

Love...

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is LOVE."

- Sophocles

Life...

Life is too important
to be taken seriously!

- Oscar Wilde

Never criticize...

Never criticize or blame yourself or anyone else for anything.

Finishing

Starting is easy. Finishing is hard.

[I had this on a piece of paper on my wall for over five years. My wife cleaned it and framed it for me. This is my best piece of advice for any entrepreneur... the first 80% is easy, the next 15% is hard and last five percent is painful. ]
- Jason Calacanis

This day in history...

The computer age reached a milestone when the Altair 8800, a precursor to the PC, became available on this date in 1974, allowing anyone to build a computer at home. The microcomputer kit was originally intended to be sold to hobbyists, but it was an instant hit, and in 1990 the computer went on display at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology in Washington, DC. The microcomputer was designed by Ed Roberts, who had been producing calculator kits for hobbyists.

Awesomely simple...

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."

- Charles Mingus

Art

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

- Picasso

Be yourself...

Be yourself before you can be anybody.

Let go...

Remember, it's the ride that counts. Get some rest and let go of your anxiety, fear, and anger. Look forward to every minute of this interesting journey we call life.

- Brad Feld, via Miah's Journey article

Vision...

"Where there is no vision,
there is no hope."

- George Washington Carver

Burn out...

Don't work harder or later than you have to. You'll burn out and lose enthusiasm.

Don't say it...

If it's not something you'd say to someone face-to-face, then don't say it online either. The next time you get upset and you're typing a message, reread it and ask yourself if you would say that if the person were sitting in front of you.

Referrals...

Remember that referrals can come from anywhere. Any interaction you have can result in good word of mouth, or bad word of mouth. It's up to you.

The best advice I ever got... [Eddie Lampert]

"Almost every weekend when I was 7, 8, 9, 10 years old, my father and I would toss a football in the yard or play basketball in the driveway. When we played football, he'd say, "Go out ten steps. Turn to your right." The ball would reach me just before I turned, and it would hit me right in the chest. Why would my dad do this? He told me, "If I waited for you to turn, you and the defensive player would have an equal chance to get the ball. Your opportunity is gone."

This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You have to think, "Here's what other people and companies have done under certain circumstances. Now, under these new circumstances, how is this management likely to behave?" The plays my father designed for me helped me learn to think ahead. Lots of days I asked him, "Why can't we just invite kids over and play a game?" In order to do something well, he explained, you have to keep practicing and preparing."

- Eddie Lampert, Chairman and CEO, ESL Investments; Chairman, Sears Holdings
Excerpt from Fortune Magazine

Obsession...

Obsession, this is the key to success in any field.

Smile!

When wearing only a smile - be sure to smile a lot.

It's a new day -

Shake-off those failures and disappointments. It's a new day!

- Joel Osteen

Loving people...

"You'll never be happy if you can't figure out that loving people is all there is. And that it's more important to love than be loved. Because that is when you feel love, by loving somebody."

- Gwyneth Paltrow

Confidence...

Confidence is not a guarantee of success but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.