Often times it can be a good idea to step back from your work and draw motivation from others. So, for your reading enjoyment, I’ve put together a compilation of quotes that exemplify my personal beliefs on what it takes to become a successful marketer and business person.
“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
- Tony Robbins
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston Churchill
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
- Thomas Edison
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
- Bill Gates
“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
- Donald Trump
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
- Zig Ziglar
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Confucius
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
― Napoleon Hill
“What helps people, helps business.”
- Leo Burnett
“Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household.”
- Gary Vaynerchuk
“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”
― Oprah Winfrey
“Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.”
– Henry J. Kaiser
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”
- Tony Robbins
“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dalí
“If you’re willing to endure the short-term discomfort that stems from stepping outside your comfort zone and actually working like crazy for a while, you’ll get to where you want to go…”
- Frank Kern
“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
- Steve Jobs
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison
“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”
- Robert Collier
“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”
- David Rockefeller
“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
― Zig Ziglar
“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”
- Tony Robbins
“All lasting business is built on friendship.”
- Alfred A. Montapert
“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
- Khalil Gibran
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”
- Jonathan Winters
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
- Jim Rohn
“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.”
- John Greenleaf Whittier
“When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.”
- Robert Kiyosaki
“The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life.”
– Charles M. Schwab
“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”
– Warren Buffett
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
– Dwight Eisenhower
“YOU are the only person who can take you where you want to go. There is no Guru, teacher, mentor, author, speaker, shaman, or whatever who can or will do that for you.Ever…”
- Frank Kern
“The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place.”
– Orison Swett Marden
“Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.”
- Sam Walton
“I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.”
- Bill Gates
“Stop selling. Start helping.”
- Zig Ziglar
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
- Gandhi
“Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.”
- Robert H. Schuller
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
- Dale Carnegie
“For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling.”
- Simon Mainwaring
“If you wait until there is another case studying your industry,you will be too late.”
- Seth Godin
“The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.”
- Tom Fishburne
“Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.”
- W. Clement Stone
“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”
– Henry Ford
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
– Bill Gates
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.”
- William Durant
“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.”
- Henry Ford
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
- Peter Drucker
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
- Swami Vivekananda
“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”
- Richard Branson
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
- Henry Ford
“Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.”
- W. Clement Stone
“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
– Norman Schwarzkopf
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.”
– Dennis Waitley
Feel free to leave a comment below to let me know which ones are your personal favorites.