Quotes for Business Tips
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What's in it For Me?
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"
-- Brian Tracy
Success after failure
Most people achieved their greatest successes one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.
-- Brian Tracy
Spend 5 minutes complaining
If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.
-- Jim Rohn
Believe in yourself
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
Control yourself
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
-- Lau Tsu
Be happy and pursue
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
-- Jim Rohn
Don't wish it was easier
Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.
-- Jim Rohn
You are responsible
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
-- Oprah Winfrey
Be careful what you say
The most influential person who will talk to you all day is you, so you should be very careful about what you say to you!
-- Zig Ziglar
The life in your years
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Express gratitude
The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.
-- Zig Ziglar
Perseverance
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another!
-- Walter Elliott
Positive attitude
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
-- Harvey Mackay
Win the second half
Don't give up at half-time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
-- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
Hire nice people
Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.
-- Jim Rohn
Seek and ye shall find
The Bible says, 'If you wish to find, you must search.' I believe that is true, rarely does a good idea interrupt you.
-- Jim Rohn
Take charge of your life.
Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.
-- Jim Rohn
Thanksgiving opens opportunity
There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.
--Zig Ziglar
Take care of you for me
The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, 'If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.' Now I say, 'I will take care of me for you if you will take care of you for me.'
-- Jim Rohn
Seeking security
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
-- Brian Tracy
Personal responsibility
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don't have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes.
-- Jim Rohn
Economic Knowledge
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
-- John Kenneth Gilbraith
Shortage of listeners
It seems rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
-- Erma Bombeck
Forget everything
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
--William Durant
Uplift Humanity
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be clear about the consequences
The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.
-- Brian Tracy
You think how you act
It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.
-- Millard Fuller(founder of Habitat for Humanity)
Do your best and learn from it
In sales there are going to be times when you can't make everyone happy. Don't expect to and you won't be disappointed. Just do your best for each client in each situation as it arises. Then, learn from each situation how to do it better the next time.
-- Tom Hopkins
Opportunity minded
Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
-- Stephen Covey
I'm sick and tired...
I'm sick and tired of teachers who don't want to teach,
and preachers who don't want to preach,
and salesmen who don't like to sell
and workers who won't work.
But the one thing that makes me sickest are the leaders who won't lead!
-Charlie Brower
Valuable-->Indispensable
Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.
-- Brian Tracy
To succeed...
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
--Tony Dorsett
Fundamental Success
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
-- Jim Rohn
Surround yourself with optimism
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
--Zig Ziglar
We work for ourselves
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
-- Brian Tracy
Success From Failure
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill
Lack of will
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
-- Vincent T. Lombardi
No can't, only won't
There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.
--Jan Ashford
Life is hard
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
-- Sydney Harris
Nothing wrong with change
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
-- Winston Churchill
Get Knocked Down
It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi
Developing good habits
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habits and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
-- W. Clement Stone
Edit what you say
When you need to correct someone, be resolved not to do so in a blaming manner. Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Then be careful to speak calmly and tactfully. Carefully edit what you say before you say it.
-- Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
Everything a miracle
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein
Talent alone...
Talent alone won't make you a success.
Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready.
The most important question is always: "Are you ready?"
-Johnny Carson
Do the work
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
-- Indira Gandhi
Who owes you?
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
-- Mark Twain
Do not go...
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are lots of people!
To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting - there are lots of people!
-- Jim Rohn
Be respectful
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to... But be respected -- that is essential.
-- Anna Gould
Look what he aspires to
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
--Kahlil Gibran
The function of genius
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
--Hugh Trevor-Roper
Who Are Your Customers?
Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction. Who are your customers and how are you doing?
-- Brian Tracy
The more you know
The more you study, the more you find out you don't know, but the more you study, the closer you come.
-- Cozy Cole
Decisions-->Destiny
It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
-- Anthony Robbins
The Golden Rule
Internalize the 'Golden Rule' of sales that says, 'All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.'
-- Bob Burg
Life in the living
Most people are too busy living life to ever put life in their living."
-- Doug Firebaugh
Learn to use one's eyes
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.
-- George Sand
The task ahead
The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Decide to be successful
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
-- Harvey Mackay
Believe you can
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
-- Denis Waitley
Attitude of Gratitude
Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.
-- Brian Tracy
Going far...
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
--Dale Carnegie
Peace of Mind
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
-- Larry Eisenberg
Render Service
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
-- Jim Rohn
Give everything your best
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
-- Dale Carnegie
Believe and Achieve
What the mind of a man can conceive and believe the mind of a man can achieve.
-- Napoleon Hill
People-builders
The most powerful and predictable people-builders are praise and encouragement.
-- Brian Tracy
Why settle for less?
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
-- Helen Keller
Invest your talents
Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts."
-- Nido Qubein
It takes time
It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.
-- Jim Rohn
Life's funny
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.
--W. Somerset Maugham
Invest in knowledge
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
I Cannot...
"I cannot do it" never produced anything.
"I will try" has performed wonders.
-George Bunhem
Making friends
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
-- Dale Carnegie
Example or Warning?
The Bible gives us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. One list of human stories is used as examples - do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings - don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.
-- Jim Rohn
Must have/Want to have
Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and a 'want.'
-- Jim Rohn
Character is higher than intellect
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well to think.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work your plan
Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
-- Brian Tracy
Discipline
The only competition you will ever have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind.
-- James A. Ray
Get better
The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.
-- Brian Tracy
Limits of tomorrow
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Our accomplishments
Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime -- repeat them years after you have forgotten them.
-- Dale Carnegie
Master One Thing
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
-- Vincent Van Gogh
The startingpoint of achievement
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
-- Napoleon Hill
Believe in what you are doing
Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.
-- Brian Tracy
Vision without action
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
--Japanese Proverb
The 5 C's
Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
-- Walt Disney
Moment by moment
The secret to Momentum in life can be found in the word Momentum...you create it Moment by Moment.
-- Doug Firebaugh
Effort = Achievement
Every great human achievement is preceded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.
-- Brian Tracy
Prospecting, presenting and followup
Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves.
-- Brian Tracy
Failure is an opinion
Failure is an opinion. It is either an educational tool for starting over or an excuse breeding tool for saying it's over.
-- Doug Firebaugh
It will happen
As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
-- Denis Waitley
Agenda Anxiety
Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.
-- Nido Qubein
Persistance and achievement
Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.
-- Brian Tracy
Opportunity comes disguised
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
-- Napoleon Hill
Get off the fence!
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off of sometimes. What matters most is getting off! You cannot make progress without making decisions.
-- Jim Rohn
Do it right!
It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Desire-->Achievement
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
-- Napoleon Hill
Expand your sphere of influence
It isn't so important that YOU know 250 people. What's important is that everyone you MEET knows 250 people. That means, in essence, that every time you develop a strong relationship with someone new, you've potentially expanded your personal sphere of influence by 250 people every... single... time.
-- Bob Burg
Get a little better every day
Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.
-- Brian Tracy
Stay Creative
One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.
-- Harvey Mackay
To Risk, or Not to Risk?
Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, ""Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"" That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes."
--David Viscott
Lack of will
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
-- Vincent T. Lombardi
Make a commitment
Make a total commitment to your company, your job, and your career. Uncommitted people have no future.
-- Brian Tracy
Do what you know
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
- Anthony Robbins
Life is a banquet
Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death."
-- Mame Dennis in Autie Mame
Being rich
Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.
-- Harvey B. Mackay
An idea whose time has come
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo
If you want to be successful...
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results."
--Anthony Robbins
Don't judge each day...
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Pessimist-Optimist
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
-- Harry Truman
Gratitude
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
-- Melody Beattie
The impact of a new idea
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
-- Percy Williams Bridgman
It takes time
It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.
-- Jim Rohn
An attitude of mind
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
-- J. Donald Walters
The credit belongs to...
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
True self-esteem
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
-- Denis Waitley
Self-discipline
The most important quality in the development of human character is, and always has been, self discipline.
-- Brian Tracy
Persuasion
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
-- Zig Ziglar
Be the change
If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.
-- Gita Bellin
Valuable and important
Everything you do in life is to either increase or to protect your self-esteem. You tend to be happiest with someone who makes you feel valuable and important.
-- Brian Tracy
Leave it better than you found it
Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.
-- Jim Rohn
Fast moving industry
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
One good idea
Take all the training you can get; one good idea is all you need to save yourself years of hard work.
-- Brian Tracy
Earn well or live well?
Some people have learned to earn well, but they haven't learned to live well.
-- Jim Rohn
A reflection of you
Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.
-- James A. Ray
Belief becomes reality
Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.
-- Brian Tracy
A waste of time?
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
-- Sir John Lubbock
What Business Isn't, According To A Great Businessman
" A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. " - Henry Ford
Business Ambition Quotation
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
Ambitious Business Quote
"Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve." - Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy Software, Inc.
What To Expect When You Start A Business
" Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. " - Tim Berners-Lee
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