If you’re stuck, defeated or just need a little encouragement – here are the Top 300 Inspirational Quotes to get your entrepreneurial juices flowing again.
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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi |
“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” —Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO |
“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
“If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you.” ~ Robert Collier |
The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place.” – Orison Swett Marden |
“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.” Abraham Lincoln |
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” C. S. Lewis |
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” Walt Disney |
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” –Aristotle |
“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” –Dalai Lama |
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” –Jamie Paolinetti |
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain |
“It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J. K Rowling |
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Albert Einstein |
“If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.” – Gurbaksh Chahal |
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki |
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” ― Lou Holtz |
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ― Walt Disney Company |
“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” ― Paulo Coelho, Brida |
“All great achievements require time.” ― Maya Angelou |
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” ― Henry Ford |
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” ― Bruce Lee |
“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.” ― Stephen King |
“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.” ― Jack Welch |
“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.” ― Criss Jami |
“Your inner strength is your outer foundation” ― Allan Rufus |
“Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.” ― Zig Ziglar |
“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.” – Dee Hock, Founder of Visa |
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso |
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill, Author |
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” ~ Zig Ziglar |
“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” ~ Thomas Watson, Sr. |
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill |
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” ~ John Wooden |
“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” ~ William Durant |
“Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.” – George Van Valkenburg |
“I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.” – Donald Trump |
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates |
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel |
“If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example.” – Ingvar Kamprad |
“To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” – George Kneller |
“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” – Richard Branson |
“I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.” – Robert Bosch |
“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson, Sr. |
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs |
“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki |
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” – Zig Ziglar |
“A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.” – John D. Rockefeller |
“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.” – Stan Smith |
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”- Andy Warhol |
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker |
“One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented.One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.”- Brian Tracy |
“Bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” — Abraham Lincoln |
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reach, don’t adjust the goals; adjust the action steps.” — Confucius |
“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities.They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”–John Maxwell |
“Leadership is the art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations.” -Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner |
“Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.” -Jeff Bezos, Amazon |
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” -Ellon Musk |
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” –Henry David Thoreau |
“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” –Earl Nightingale |
“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” –Stephen Covey |
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” –Pearl Buck |
”Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.” –Pat Riley |
“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” –Thomas J. Watson |
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” –Elbert Hubbard |
”To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” –Pearl S. Buck |
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” –Theodore Roosevelt |
“Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.” –David McCullough |
“You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.” –Warren Beatty |
“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.”-Thomas Aquinas |
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” –Hal Borland |
“There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.” -J.G. Holland |
“All mankind is divided into three groups: those that are immovable, those that are movable and those that move.” -Benjamin Franklin |
“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” -Samuel Johnson |
“A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.” -Mary Kay Ash |
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” -Henry Ford |
“Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” -Calvin Coolidge |
“You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.” -Roger Maris |
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” -John Wooden |
“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” -Anthony Robbins |
“Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.” -Charles Wesley |
“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” -Dale Carnegie |
“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” -Brian Tracy |
“The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.” -George Muller |
“The first step towards the solution of any problem is optimism.” -John Baines |
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” -John Wooden |
“Quality begins on the inside… and then works its way out.” -Bob Moawad |
“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.” -Nancy Willard |
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” -Hannah More |
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” -Dietrich Bonheoffer |
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.” -Art Linkletter |
“There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.” -Richard Nelson |
“It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired you quit when the gorilla is tired.” -Robert Strauss |
“When we set goals; they work in two ways, we work on them and they work on us.” -Bob Moawad |
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” -Vernon Law |
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” -Dale Carnegie |
“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” -Henry Ford |
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” -Will Rogers |
“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.” -Marian Wright Edelman |
“Business is more exciting than any game.” –Lord Beaverbrook |
“If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.” –Isaac Mophatlane |
“Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum.” –Jeffrey Immelt |
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” –Charles Darwin |
“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” –Thomas Watson, Sr. |
“The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.” –John Egan |
“Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.” –Charles Dickens |
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” –Henry Ford |
“If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.” –B. C. Forbes |
“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 |
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” –Bill Gates |
“But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.” –Arianna Huffington |
“The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.” –Seth Godin |
“The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.” –Rupert Murdoch |
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” –Richard Branson |
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” –Steve Jobs |
“Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.” –Sergey Brin |
“Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.” –Mark Cuban |
“Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.” – Thomas Watson Jr. – President IBM |
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” -John D. Rockefeller |
“When you expect things to happen – strangely enough – they do happen.” -J. P. Morgan |
“Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.” -Henry J. Kaiser – Founder Kaiser Permanente |
“Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.” -Edward H. Harriman – Railroad Executive |
“Before you say you can’t do something, try it.” -Sakichi Toyoda – Founder Toyota |
“Before you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are.” -Gerard Swope – President of General Electric |
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” -Mark Twain |
“Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.” -Karl Albrecht |
“You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.” -Carlos Slim |
“Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.” -Swami Sivananda |
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” -Ken Robinson |
“If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.” -Warren Buffett |
“Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.” -Napoleon Hill |
“Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.” -Dale Carnegie |
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” -Bill Gates |
“The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.” -Malcom Forbes |
“The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” ~Nolan Bushnell |
“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” ~Henry David Thoreau |
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” ~Zig Ziglar |
“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.” ~Zig Ziglar |
“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” ~Bo Bennet |
“The number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail & keep on trying.” ~Tom Hopkins |
“Choose a job that you like and you will never have to work a day in your life.” -Confucius |
“Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” -Peter Drucker |
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” -Aristotle |
“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” -Tom peters |
“Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.” -Richard Branson |
“Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.” -Simon Sinek |
“It’s about getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment & helping to find a way to innovate.” -Marissa Mayer |
“Your brand is your culture.” -Tony Hsieh |
“Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.” -Clayton Christensen |
“Each and every one of us is a leader. Some of us just don’t know it yet.” -Umair Haque |
“The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.” -Marcus Buckingham |
“The day you are not solving problems or are not up to your butt in problems is probably a day you are no longer leading.” -Colin Powell |
“If you don’t understand people, you don’t understand business.” -Simon Sinek |
“You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.” -Jim Collins |
“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” -Richard Branson |
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” -Bill Gates |
“To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.” -Rosabeth Kanter |
“We strive always to have a beginner’s mind.” -Marc Benioff |
“When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.” -Larry Ellison |
“The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.” -Clayton Christensen |
“Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.” -Hillary Clinton |
“Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield.” -Marcus Buckingham |
“The drive for progress doesn’t wait for the external world to say “It’s time to change.” -Jim Collins |
“We believe that customer service shouldn’t be just a department; it should be the entire company.” -Tony Hsieh |
“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity & willingness to embrace paradox.” -Tony Schwartz |
“Everyone has an idea but it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.” -Jack Dorsey |
“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” -Tony Robbins |
“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” -Jack Welch |
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” -Lou Holtz |
“You can never rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the best!” -Brian Tracy |
“Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don’t do it.” -Mark Cuban |
“The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.” -Tony Schwartz |
“Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.” -Marshall Goldsmith |
“If we really want to be effective with communication, we have to humanize our brands.” -Amy Jo Martin |
“Time is priceless. Spend it with people you have high value and energy exchange rates with.” -Amy Jo Martin |
“We should be focusing on building the things that don’t exist.” -Larry Page |
“When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place.” -Mark Zuckerberg |
“It’s through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path.” -Michael Dell |
“Make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, has a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society.” -Larry Page |
“Your reputation is more important than you paycheck, and your integrity is more important than your career.” -Ryan Freitas |
“Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition, in having put forth the best within you.” -Henry J. Kaiser |
“I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.” –Estee Lauder |
“Inspiration exists, but it must find you working.” –Pablo Picasso |
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” –Henry Ford |
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” –Arthur Ashe |
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” –Bill Cosby |
“Tell a story. Make it true. Make it compelling. And make it relevant.” –Rand Fishkin |
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” –George Eliot |
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” –Beverly Sills |
“You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.” -Les Brown |
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
“Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” -Charles F. Kettering |
“To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” -Tony Dorsett |
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” -John Wooden |
“Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.” -Denis Waitley |
“To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.” -J. Paul Getty |
“To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” -George Kneller |
“To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.” -Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth |
“To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.” -Tryon Edwards |
“The success combination in business is: Do what you do better and do more of what you do.” -David Joseph Schwartz |
“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.” -Harvey S. Firestone |
“A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.” -Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.” – Ralph Lauren |
“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.” -Ralph Nader |
“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
“Long shots do come in and hard work,dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.” -John H. Johnson |
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” -Helen Keller |
“Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.” -Tim Blixseth |
“You’ve got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.” -Clive Davis |
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” -Benjamin Disraeli |
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
“You’ve got to love what you do to really make things happen.” -Philip Green |
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” -Conrad Hilton |
“What a man believes may be ascertained not from his creed, but from assumptions on which he habitually acts.” -George Bernard Shaw |
“Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance, make decisions, and take decisive action.” -Jose Silva |
“I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.” -Martha Stewart |
“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” -Jack Welch |
“A culture of discipline is not a principle of business; it is a principle of greatness.” -Jim Collins |
“Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you really want.” -Robert G Allen |
“Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.” -Stephen Covey |
“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” -Wayne Dyer |
“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” -Napoleon Hill |
“You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.” -Brian Tracy |
“The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” -Oprah Winfrey |
“When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.” -Rudy Giuliani |
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” -Dale Carnegie |
“Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.” -Larry Flynt |
“Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you really want.” -Robert G Allen |
“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” -Wayne Dyer |
“Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.” -Napoleon Hill |
“Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.” -Rudy Giuliani |
“The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.” -Andrew Carnegie |
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” -Dale Carnegie |
“To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.” -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” -BC Forbes |
“The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.” -Andrew Grove |
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” -Conrad Hilton |
“It’s not where you start or where you finish. It is the distance between the two.” -David Icke |
“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.” -Wayne Dyer |
“You’ve got to love what you do to really make things happen.” -Philip Green |
“The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.” -Charles Schwab |
“You have to earn money the hard way. Because no-one will serve it up to you on a silver platter.” -Gordon Wu |
“When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.” -Lakshmi Mittal |
“Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who’s going to have a great idea.” -Sam Walton |
“When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on the way.” -Zig Ziglar |
“Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.” -Peter Drucker |
“Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.” -George Lucas |
“When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding management, our favorite holding period is forever.” -Warren Buffet |
“Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.” -Mikhail Khodorkovsky |
“Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.” -Nelson Mandela |
“Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.” -Charlie Munger |
“The way you see them is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is the way they often become.” -Zig Ziglar |
”Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” -Benjamin Franklin |
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” -Coco Chanel |
“The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.” -Nelson Mandela |
“Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” -Dennis Waitley |
“Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.” -Aldous Huxley |
“Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.” -Viktor Frankl |
“Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.” -J.Howes |
“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” Arthur C. Clarke |
“In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.” -William James |
“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” -Euripides |
“Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” -Theodore T. Hunger |
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” -Frank Loyd Wright |
“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” -Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” -Josh Billings |
“Careful thinking and hard work will solve nearly all your problems. Try and see for yourself.” -Ullery |
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Harold R. McAlindon |
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” -John Quincy Adams |
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” -Henry Ford |
“One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.” -Calvin Coolidge |
“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.” -Abraham Lincoln |
“Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.” -Confucius |
“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or “get rich” in business by being a conformist.” -J. Paul Getty |
“Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.” -Aldous Huxley |
“Success is sweet, the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.” -A. Bronson Alcott |
“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.” -Edward Eggleston |
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” -Francis Bacon |
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” -John Burroughs |
“Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.” -Janet Erskine Stuart |
“Occasions are rare: and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.” -H. W. Shaw |
“A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” -Charles Darwin |
“The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business.” -Lee Iacocca |
“The more you release the Negativity, the more Positive gain you will receive.” -Donna Avvento |
“Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke.” ~Eliot Wiggington |
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” ~Bernice Johnson Reagon |
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ~Helen Keller |
“Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” ~Frederick B Wilcox |
“If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.” ~Gurbaksh Chahal |
“Have a very good reason for everything you do.” ~Laurence Olivier |
“Business is more exciting than any game.” –Lord Beaverbrook |
“If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.” –Isaac Mophatlane |
“In the business world,everyone is paid in two coins:cash and experience.Take the experience first; the cash will come later.” –Harold Geneen |
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” ―Thomas Jefferson |
“When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.” ―Karen E. Quinones Miller |
“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” ―Tricia Cunningham |
“If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.” ―Paulo Coelho |
“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes” ―Benjamin Franklin |
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