At some point in an entrepreneurial journey, the odds for success tends to seem incredibly minute while the trials and pressures seem endless.
At such point, many startups crumble as a result of fear, anxiety, demoralization, etc.
Therefore in order to help you withhold the trials and triumph as a businessperson, below is a list of insightful and inspiring business quotes from moguls who encountered and overcame the trials accompanying early startup and achieved massive success.
Because creating a dominant brand is a survival-of-the-fittest kind of game, inculcate these amazing quotes in managing your business/brand in order to develop a mindset that’ll help you dominate competing brands and to maximize your productivity.
1. “There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.” – B. C. Forbes
2. “If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.” – B. C. Forbes
3. “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” – Ray Goforth
4. “There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.” – Anthony Robbins
5. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
6. “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedy
7. “If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do.” – Anonymous
8. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
9. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
10. “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
11. “You are not your resume, you are your work.” – Seth Godin
12. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” – Tony Hsieh
13. “A shady business never yields a sunny life.” – B. C. Forbes
14. “The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.” – B. C. Forbes
15. “What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.” – B. C. Forbes
16. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Sr. Thomas Watson
17. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
18. “I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!” – C.J. Walker
19. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
20. “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki
21. “Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.” – B. C. Forbes
22. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
23. “Real riches are the riches possessed inside.” – B. C. Forbes
24. “A man should never neglect his family for business.” – Walt Disney
25. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope
26. “There is no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” – Seth Godin
27. “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.” – Roy L. Smith
28. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain
29. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
30. “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
31. “Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.” – Donald Trump
32. “The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.” – Andrew Carnegie
33. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
34. “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda
35. “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.” – Elon Musk
36. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” – Elon Musk
37. “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.” – Bill Phillips
38. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
39. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar
40. “Always deliver more than expected.” – Larry Page
41. “Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” – James Thurber
42. “You can have as much influence and networking and friends in high places as you can, but if you don’t work hard you can’t really get there.” – Sandy Jen
43. “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” – Josh James
44. “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
45. “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
46. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” – Tony Hsieh
47. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” – Howard Schultz
48. “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” – Napoleon Hill
49. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” – Anthony Volodkin
50. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Albert Einstein
Reflect on the above quotes, take a new stance in your business, practice a different attitude and approach towards your business and, watch the magic happen.
Do you have a favorite business and career quote on or off the list? Feel free to indicate. Never quit living your dreams!
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