Below are 50 quotes from eminent leaders and speakers. I find that they help me to stay focused and carry on when things aren’t quite going right. Perhaps they’ll help you too.

1. “Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.” Jim Rohn
2. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” Bill Cosby
3. “A good name will shine forever.” Proverb
4. “Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” Richard L. Evans
5. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney
6. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky
7. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” Steve Jobs
8. “In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want.” Alice MacDougal
9. “Unless you have 100% customer satisfaction…you must improve.” Horst Schulz
10. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.” Henry Ford
11. “Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.” Donald Porter, British Airways
12. “Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.” Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks
13. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.” Steve Jobs
14. “This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.” John Ilhan, Crazy John’s
15. “Fortune favors the brave.” Publius Terence
16. “In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.” Bill Clinton
17. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain
18. “If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.” Jeff Bezos
19. “Whatever you fear most has no power.. it is your fear that has the power.” Oprah Winfrey
20. “Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
    Anthony Robbins
21. “The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” Nolan Bushnell
22. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” Richard Branson
23. “The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.” Henry Ward Beecher
24. “The only limits are, as always, those of vision.” James Broughton
25. “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
26. “To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.” Peter McWilliams
27. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.” Jim Rohn
28. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” Peter F. Drucker
29. “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” Brian Tracy
30. “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” Bill Gates
31. “Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven’t.” Peter Drucker
32. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” Thomas Watson, Sr.
33. “You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.” Les Brown
34. “You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” Jim Rohn
35. “The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.” John Naisbitt
36. “A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” Latin Proverb
37. “Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
38. “Insanity is thinking that you’ll get different results doing the same things over and over again.” Elena Benitoruiz
39. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle
40. “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” Mario Andretti
41.  “I am always doing things I can’t do — that’s how I get to do them.” Pablo Picasso
42. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” Stephen R. Covey
43. “Everything is hard before it is easy.” Carol Dweck
44. “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” Arthur C. Clarke
45. “Nothing limits achievement like small thinking. Nothing equals possibilities like unleashed thinking.” William Arthur Ward
46. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” David Brinkley
47. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” Babe Ruth
48.  “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” Samuel Johnson
49. “The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer’s dollar before the other fellow gets it.” Stuart Chase
50. “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” W.W. Ziege

Over To You: Do you have any quotes you’d like to add?

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