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Here are some quotes, those (I believe) may turn out to be very influential in ones life and career. Some of the good ones were sent by Sabyasachi Mitra, my school friend. If you know of any other good ones, please email me with your name and the quote.

General

"The best way to make your dreams come true is .... to wake up !!" --- excerpt from the movie "Excess Baggage."
Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached - This is a translation from a Sanskrit (an ancient language of the Hindu civilization in India) Sloka "Uttisthito Jagroto Prapyo Baraan Nibodhato."
Great minds discuss ideas, mediocre minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
Every expert was once a beginner.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln
Hard work won't guarantee you a thing, but without it, you don't stand a chance.
Shoot for the moon. If you don't make it, at least you will land among the stars.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties - Harry Truman

Love and Friendship

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, its yours.
The most lonely place in the world is the human heart when love is absent.
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving - Ami Carmichael
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it - Rabindrath Tagore, Fireflies (1928)
Ask a toad what beauty is, and he will say it is his female with her huge round eyes, coming out of her tiny head; large flat mouth; yellow belly; and brown back - Voltaire (to explain that beauty is relative)
The road to happiness is always under construction.

Business

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is a part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so - Mahatma Gandhi

The customer is always right. If you have any doubt about it, revert to the first statement - Sam Walton (founder of Wal-Mart and the man behind its success).