December 17, 2010
I want to bring pleasure with everything I write. Intellectual pleasure, emotional pleasure, linguistic pleasure, aesthetic pleasure.

Jonathan Franzen
Novelist
Source: Jonathan Franzen Speaks! by The Daily Beast
Via: @parisreview
Labels: Writing
December 14, 2010
I am self-financed, because I want to design my destiny. I don’t need to kiss ass or pay interest.

Horst Rechelbacher
Founder of Aveda Corporation
Source: “Aveda’s Founder Goes Organic” by Inc. Magazine
Labels: Bootstrapping
December 4, 2010
The people who successfully start independent businesses (franchises, I think are a different thing) do it because we have no real choice in the matter. The voice in our heads won’t shut up until we discover if we’re right, if we can do it, if we can make something happen. This is an art, our art, and to leave it bottled up is a crime.

Seth Godin
Author
Source: How can you do it?!
Labels: Business