Amy Poehler

Great people do things before they’re ready.

Be yourself. No one else can be you.

You know, it sounds like I’m bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, there’s not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.

[on Tina Fey] I like to say our relationship is as old as Lourdes Ciccone

I remember Tina Fey wrote a play about Catherine the Great f**king a horse and I thought, ‘That lady is hot stuff, I wanna know her.’

I did not breeze in there thinking: ‘I’m going to nail this.’ My heart rate was not low when I was doing the Golden Globes. I wanted to do well. It’s very bizarre to be in a room where everybody in your audience is famous. But also: it’s an awards show!

The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

Take time to be kind and to say thank you.

We don’t get what we want, we get what we think we deserve… ask for more.

One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can. – Catherine the Great

Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

Most people think small because they are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning.

Hope will never be silent.

I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

At the still-point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Each businessperson must find a style, that voice that grows clearer and louder with each success and failure. Observing your own and your competitors’ successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.