Downing, Childs & Musser

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney

“Capital isn’t that important in business.  Experience isn’t either.  You can always get both of these things.  What counts is ideas.”  — Harvey Firestone

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”                          – Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple Computer and Pixar Studios

“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.  It’s as simple as that.  Al lot of people have ideas, but htere are few who decide to do something about them now.  Not romorrow.  Not next week.  But today.  The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”                                                           — Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s

“Don’t ever let anybody tell you that you have too many competitors.  Once you subtract the people who don’t work very hard, or the people who aren’t as good as you, your competition shrinks dramatically.”                                          — Maggie Mason, founder of Mighty Goods

“When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity.  You have the choice.  You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser.  The choice is yours and yours alone.  Refuse to throw in the towel.  Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel.  It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.”                                      — Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

“A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.”  — John D. Rockefeller

“One of the unique thnags we small companies have over the big guys is the ability to establish personal relationships.  Big companies really can’t do that.  You read about effective organizations, learning organizations, lean and mean organizations, but small companies can be virtuous.  We as small companies can have virtue because we as small companies are basically the embodiment of one or two people, and people can have virture, while organizations really can’t.”  — Jim Koch, founder of Boston Beer Company

“Experience taught me a few things.  One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.  The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know.  And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones that you don’t make.”  — Donald Trump

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”  — Winston Churchill