"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.  If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

~ Warren Buffett

"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.  So there is no need of defining it."  ~ L.M. Montgomery

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
~  Amelia Earhart

"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Source:  Treasury of Wit & Wisdom, 4,000 of the funniest, cleverest, most insightful things ever said.  Reader's Digest.2006.