There is an immutable conflict at heart of business between impulse and caution, between youth and experience, between the entrepreneurial spirit and the seasoned veteran's prudence.

The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us.

Life is growth. You grow or you die.

Everything depends on your judgment, and that judgment rests with you.

-- Marcus Aurelius

It is not I who conform to the stars; the stars conform to me.

-- Plotinus

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

-- Hypatia

Others are others, I am I — regardless, I walk the path I walk.

-- Kitarō Nishida

Favorable timing is less important than geographical advantage, and that is less important than unity among people.

-- Mencius

Have the courage to use your own understanding!

-- Immanuel Kant