“I always say to people who want to be an entrepreneur, go work for someone else first. Learn the ropes from them...and that's how I learned so much from other people, spending 15 years in corporate before I opened my own business.” – Vanessa Judelman
"I saw people in their apocalypse, their version of the apocalypse. They not only survived it, but they did so with hope and with courage, forgiving each other and working together across the lines where they normally would have been at odds." – C.C. Robinson
“I just really became inspired to write down my grandfather's story because he went through such a struggle. He came here with nothing and built something for our family, and I thought that was very special.” – Erica D'Arcangelo
“The path to success is never a straight line. And it's also never what you think it is.” – Brenda Neckvatal
“You gotta throw a little spice into whatever it is that you're doing, regardless of whether everybody's got the same idea.” – Dilgilio Rodriguez
“I literally have been writing all my life, and it's just really in the last five or six years that I finally knuckled down and said, ‘I really want to do something with this. I really want my stories out there.’” – Jayna Locke
“Sometimes being right means being alone and realizing the consequences of what it means to be right. I had to stick up for my core values, even if it meant facing consequences.” – John R. Miles
“Even when we're closed-minded, we should never stop being open-hearted.” – Justin Jones-Fosu
“Pursue your dreams. Don’t allow anyone, not even yourself, to take that away from you.” – Dr. Michael D. Finkley
“I knew at 48 that the job was killing me, and if I stayed to 55, I didn't know if I would live to be 55.” – Tim Eggebraaten
“I believe that my illness was a part of my spiritual path because if not for my illness, I wouldn't have become who I am right now.” – Dr. Irina Webster
“Conflict is creativity.” – Kat Newport
“You can't produce results if you don't take a step.” – Joy Adedoyin Fashagba
“Fear is not a reason for being a coward. You can be very courageous and still have a lot of fear.” – Dr. Afarin Bellisario
“One of the goals I was hoping for the book is for people to understand just how fragile this all is and to appreciate the people we care about.” – Dr. Gary Simonds