Darkly Comical Business Quotes

Our destiny changes with our thoughts; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. – Orison Swett Marden

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. – Ronald E. Osborn

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. – Jean Jauques Rousseau

If you can’t get enthusiastic about your work, it’s time to get alarmed—something is wrong. Compete with yourself; set your teeth and dive into the job of breaking your own record. No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision. It is one’s own fault if his enthusiasm is gone; he has failed to feed it. If you want to turn hours into minutes, renew your enthusiasm. – Papyrus

It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life. – Niebuhr

By the street of By-and-By, one arrives at the house of Never. – Cervantes

Happiness comes to the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. – Storm Jameson

To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happpiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all. – Mark Sullivan

Chance favors the prepared mind. – Louis Pasteur