Top 32 Quotes Every Entrepreneur Should Live By (from forbes.com)

Since I can't share directly from the site so I "Copas" it!

The nature of being an entrepreneur means that you fully embrace ambiguity and are comfortable with being challenged regularly. Choosing this career path is completely irrational because the odds of succeeding are dismal, but most succeed because of their unwavering belief, laser focus on delivering and persistence.
Starting a company is a riveting roller coaster of emotions with tremendous highs and at times, difficult lows, but one thing that always helps me through the ups and downs is to connect with some of the greatest minds. Below are just a few of my favorite quotes:
1. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
- Peter Drucker

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2. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
- Vince Lombardi
3. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
- Steve Jobs
4. “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new.”
- Richard Branson
5. “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.”
- Oprah Winfrey
6. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
- Bill Gates
7. “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
8. “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.”
- Jeff Bezos
9. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
- Thomas Edison
10. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
- Albert Einstein
11. “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
- Donald Trump
12. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
- Winston Churchill
13. ”Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”
- Thomas Edison
14. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain
15. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
- Vince Lombardi
16. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
- Napoleon Hill
17. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
- Bill Cosby
18. “Success is not what you have, but who you are.”
- Bo Bennet
19. “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant.”
- Warren G. Tracy’s student
20. “To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”
- Corneille
21. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
- Mark Twain

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22. “There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
- Christopher Morley
23. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”
- Napoleon Hill
24. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
- Albert Schweitzer
25. “What is not started will never get finished”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
26. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.”
- Malcolm Forbes
27. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
- Jim Rohn
28. “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can’t learn anything from being perfect.”
- Adam Osborne
29. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
- John C. Maxwell
30. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
- Ralph Nader
31. “Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
- Confucius
32. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
- Bill Gates

Another Idea to Make a Cotton Candy Machine

Candy floss (or cotton candy) is great, but expensive to buy and hardly worth investing in a dedicated machine.

This is a quick project using an existing kitchen pot (unharmed) and a handful of junk that you probably have lying around to make your own candy floss from ordinary table sugar.

Essentially all you need for a candyfloss machine is a container of sugar with tiny holes in that you can heat (to melt the sugar) and spin around (to throw out the little threads of sweetness).  We'll put this inside a big pot because you don't necessarily want strands of re-solidified sugar all over your kitchen.

I'm entering this instructable in the Jury-Rig It contest 'cos it's a treat-machine rigged up from junk bits I had lying around.

Step 1: Things you need:

You will need:

Construction items:

A jet-lighter (£3 off ebay).  These are lighters that burn with a blue flame.  They are hotter than normal lighters and don't cover everything in soot.  Get one that locks "on" because you don't want your arm covered in candy-floss from holding it.

Small DC motor (e.g. 9V - £1 or so again off ebay)
Battery for motor (pp3 in my case)
Battery connector
Small tin of food.  Mine was around 6cm high and had kidney beans in.  Tuna tins would be the right size but might give you fish-flavoured candy-floss.
Small lid in which your lighter will stand (miik bottle lid in my case)
Deep pot or bucket - the one in the first picture was much too small.  I used a stockpot in the end but a clean bucket would be fine.
Long baton -  longer than your pot is wide.  I used the runner from an old dishwasher drawer but anything wood or thin metal would work.
Long bar or tube as a stand-off (about 6").  I used a brass bar because I had it to hand and brass is nice and soft.  A wooden dowel would probably work too.
Small nut, bolt and washer.  I used steel so that it would tap itself into my brass standoff.

Consumables:

Sugar
Bamboo skewers
5-minute epoxy
superglue
cling-film

Tools:

Drill with bits including a very small (1mm or less) bit.
Soldering station.
Files
Tin snips or Can-opener

Step 2: Stabilise the lighter

My jet-lighter stood up but was pretty unstable.  However, I couldn't just mount it in epoxy 'cos it fills from the bottom.

So, to make a base you can wrap the lighter in at least two layers of cling-film, mix up some quick-setting epoxy, fill a small lid with it and stand the lighter inside.  After a few minutes, take out the lighter and peel away the cling and you have a removable base for your lighter.

Step 3: Mount the motor & rod

The motor is attached to the can by a standoff so we need to drill a hole in one end of the standoff just large enough to take the motor shaft.  A pillar drill would make this a great deal easier but I managed reasonably by eye.  Once drilled, put the rod on the motor and spin it to check that it's reasonably true.

While you are drilling the rod, add a hole at the other end just smaller than your steel machine screw/bolt ready for the next step.

A little super-glue is enough to fix the motor to the rod.  I was going to use a grub-screw so that it could be removed but for the price of a little DC motor I decided not to bother.

The next thing is to attach your motor to the supporting baton.  My stainless drawer runner had a large hole that just needed expanding slightly with a file.  Two small mounting holes for screws and the motor is ready to mount.

Step 4: Mount the can

The can will be our sugar melting vessel so we need to get sugar in, suspend it over the heat and spin it to fling the strands of molten goodness out of the sides.

First-up we cut a hole in the top.  I did this with tin-snips and a file to leave a lip so the sugar could not get out the top.  In practice that seems to have been unnecessary, so a can opener to cut to top out would be fine.  Either way, smooth off the sharp edges to avoid injury.

Next, we want to drill a series of little holes around the bottom.  The smallest bit I had was 1mm, which was slightly too large and some sugar crystals tended to get flung out.  Use the smallest you have and drill a ring of holes just above the bottom seam.  Mine were about 1cm apart, but only by eye.

Step 5: Mount the can

Next, cut a thread into the brass rod by screwing a steel machine screw into the pilot hole that you drilled earlier.  If you have a tap to do this properly then great, but brass is soft and it works well enough without.

Drill a hole in the can and mount it on the shaft.  The nut on the inside ensures that the can spins when the shaft spins.

We could glue or solder the can on but it's likely that you will want to remove it to clean or replace the can so the nut & bolt solution works well.

The can attached to the shaft should hang comfortably above the lighter when placed over your stock-pot.

Step 6: Make some candy-floss!

All that's left to do now is fire up the lighter, add a teaspoon or two of sugar to the can and start the motor.

Try to position the lighter under the side of the can.  As the can heats the sugar will melt and be flung out of the holes to make you a tasty candy-floss treat.  Once a little has accumulated, scoop it up with a bamboo skewer or similar and enjoy!

Ugi

Let's make a Cotton Candy Machine

here are the instructions to make a cotton candy machine from Instructables.com

Step 1: Cotton candy machine

Material:
electric motor, battery, (2)orange juice lids, sugar, wire, small piece of wood, electric clip, connector,( found in Homedepots)

Tools: drill, groove plier,knife

Step 2: Orange juice lids

find two orange juice lids, clean the inside and outside with sand paper

Step 3: First lids

make a large hole as shown below, use the drill to make the hole,

Step 4: Second lids

second lids, use the knife to make small hole around the lids,

Step 5: Two lids together

drill three holes around the 2 lids, use the wire to connect the lids together,

Step 6: Put together

connect the lids to the electric motor and to the small piece of wood

Step 7: Yummy cotton candy

Heat to melt the sugar and turn it into a liquid
A set of very small holes that the liquid sugar can flow through to form threads of sugar
A spinning head that slings the liquid sugar outward so it is forced through the holes
use a stick to catch the threads