Richard Branson on opportunity

If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later.

~ Richard Branson

Michael Jordan on improvement

My attitude is that if you push me toward something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength

Elbert Hubbard on risk

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.

~ Elbert Hubbard, philosopher

John Wooden on character

Worry about your character, not your reputation.  Your character is who you are, and your reputation is who people think you are.

~ John Wooden, legendary college basketball coach

Søren Kierkegaard on learning from the past, but living for the future

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards.  But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forward.

~ Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher

Jeff Tucker on building societies from the bottom up vs. "some great man"

Let’s just rule out right now that Trump’s hope of personally making America great is achievable. In fact, the illusion that it could happen is ridiculous. Societies become great only through the diffusion of action among millions and billions of people, one decision at a time. It is the absence of power, not its presence, that builds nations. It does not result from the authoritarian dictate from some great man.

~ Jeffrey A. Tucker, "Lance the Boil: How a Donald Trump Victory Might Be Good for Liberty," Liberty.me, March 10, 2016

Francis Ford Coppola on critics

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

~ Francis Ford Coppola