Inspirational Quotes to Motivate You
You want in some way take your life in a new direction, Maybe you want to change careers, or start your own business.To do that, sometimes all you need is a little push, a little nudge. A little burst of motivation and inspiration. You can use quotes to help guide your decisions in life, work and love.
Here are 28 of the best inspirational quotes to motivate you, collected from the best business and self-help books:
1. “In school, we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki
2. “People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe”
― Simon Sinek
3. “Hard things are hard because there are no easy answers or recipes. They are hard because your emotions are at odds with your logic. They are hard because you don’t know the answer and you cannot ask for help without showing weakness.”
― Ben Horowitz
4.“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
― Stephen R. Covey
5. “ZERO TO ONE EVERY MOMENT IN BUSINESS happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.”
― Peter Thiel
6. “Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
― Robert Kiyosaki
7. “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
― Napoleon Hill
8. “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”
― Jim Collins
9. “The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.”
― Eric Ries
10. “What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”
― Jason Fried
11. “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
—NIELS BOHR
12. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
― Phil Knight
13. “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu
14. “Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls-- family, health, friends, integrity-- are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”
― Gary Keller
15. “I don’t think money makes much difference, as long as you have enough.”
― John Brooks
16. “An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.”
― Benjamin Graham
17. “Disruptive technologies typically enable new markets to emerge.”
― Clayton M. Christensen
18. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
― Elon Musk
19. “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie
20. “Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
21. “Size, we are told, is not a crime. But size may, at least, become noxious by reason of the means through which it was attained or the uses to which it is put. — Louis Brandeis, Other People’s Money: And How the Bankers Use It, 1913”
― Andrew Ross Sorkin
22. “Planning, gentlemen, is ‘What are you going to do next year that’s different from what you did this year?’” he told them. “All I want is five items.”
― Bryan Burrough
23. “Never, ever do the easy wrong instead of the harder right.”
― Bethany McLean
24. “As Keyes noted, one bet soundly considered is preferable to many poorly understood.”
― Roger Lowenstein
25. “Many of the innovative companies got their best product ideas from customers. That comes from listening, intently and regularly.”
― Thomas J. Peters
26. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
― Jim Collins
27. “I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.”
― Brené Brown
28. “Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.”
― Warren Buffett
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