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Business Quotes"A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person with all the facts." -- Dayle Maloney "The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse." -- Benjamin Franklin "God has such a sense of humor...we have the opportunity to do whatever we want with our lives...and He lets us!" -- Doug Firebaugh "I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true; I am not bound to succeed but am bound to live up to what light I have." -- Abraham Lincoln "The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther." -- Zig Ziglar "Success equals goals; all else is commentary" -- Brian Tracy "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha "Make your decisions for your tomorrows not just your todays." -- Patricia Fripp "There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down -- until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living." -- George Sheehan "Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?" -- Jimmy Johnson "Time has no favorites...and it doesn't become kinder to one over another...it just gives us back...what we put into it..." -- Doug Firebaugh "The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic." -- Henry Ford "Your heart is the power core of all your success...no matter what you are desiring, if your heart isn't in it...then you will be without it." -- Doug Firebaugh "What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life." -- Brian Tracy "Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." -- Malcolm S. Forbes "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." -- Charles Darwin "Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream." -- W.C. Fields "People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be." -- Harvey Mackay "Confident people are willing to take risks; people who take risks develop self-confidence." -- Brian Tracy "The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense. -- Thomas Edison "Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." -- H. Jackson Browne "One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them." -- Dean Rusk "The only difference between a Good Day And a Bad Day Is your ATTITUDE!" -- Dennis S. Brown "No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change." -- Barbara De Angelis "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -- Henry Ford "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 "Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful." -- Mark Victor Hansen "Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand." -- General Colin Powell "No matter what size the bottle, the cream always came to the top." -- Charles Wilson "We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time to bring value to the marketplace, but we get paid for the value, not the time." -- Jim Rohn "A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves." -- Jean de la Bruyere "To the fearful, change is threatening because they worry that things may get worse. To the hopeful, change is encouraging because they feel things may get better." - Buck Rogers "You do not lead by hitting people over the head--that's assault, not leadership." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower "Opportunities? They are all around us...there is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it." -- Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine "We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." -- Lee Iococca "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." -- Benjamin Disraeli "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -- Thomas Edison "A boat doesn't go forward if each one is rowing their own way." -- Swahili Proverb "You may delay, but time will not." -- Benjamin Franklin "The majority of people meet with failure because they lack the persistence to create new plans to take the place of failed plans." -- Mark Victor Hansen "Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim, nor even extra brightness, but perseverance all can have." -- Woodrow Wilson "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in very difficulty." -- Winston Churchill "You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today." -- Brian Tracy "The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them." -- Denis Waitley "Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open." -- Sir James Dewar "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt "Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." -- Leonardo da Vinci "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." -- Abraham Lincoln "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 "You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try." -- Kathy Seligman "If you don't have a dream, How you gonna have a dream come true?" -- From Lyrics for Happy Talk, South Pacific "Life at any time can become difficult: Life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life." -- Morarji Desai "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." -- Thomas Jefferson "The noblest search is the search for excellence." -- Lyndon B. Johnson "God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out." -- Jim Rohn "We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life." -- Mary Kay Ash "The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been." -- Henry Kissinger "The more you say, the less people will remember." -- Anatole France "The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."" -- Rear Admiral Grace Hopper "Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution." -- Jeffrey Gitomer "Words without actions are the assassins of idealism." -- Herbert Clark Hoover "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 "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." -- Count Leo Tolstoy "A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us." -- Maltbie Babcock "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." -- Sun Tzu "Don't get complacent. Push yourself out of your comfort zone and set higher standards of achievement for yourself. Once you've achieved a standard of excellence, never let it rest--push yourself even higher." -- Dave Anderson "Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise." -- Harvey Mackay "You don't have to get it perfect - you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they do." -- Mark Victor Hansen "Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot." -- Jim Rohn "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right." -- Henry Ford "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 "The path to success is to take massive, determined action." -- Anthony Robbins "You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere." -- Charles F. Kettering "We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." -- Stevie Wonder "Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over." -- Paul J. Meyer "Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success." -- Stephen Covey "If your cup runneth over, expand your cup." -- Mark Victor Hansen "Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. -- Paul J. Meyer "Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible." -- Robert Schuller "Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image." -- Nido Qubein "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 "Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goeth "We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service." -- Earl Nightingale "Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference." -- Nolan Bushnell "The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can." -- Richard Cushing "All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing." -- Peter M. Leschak "Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them." -- Brian Tracy "A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying." --Napoleon Hill "Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change." -- Brian Tracy "The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible." -- Richard M. DeVos "The chief distinguishing characteristic of leaders is Intensity of Purpose." -- Brian Tracy "Try? There is no try! There is only do or not do." -- Yoda, Jedi Warrior "You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree of which you increase your ability to use your time effectively." -- Brian Tracy "You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do." -- Henry Ford "There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul." -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Dare to be what you ought to be; dare to be what you dream to be; dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!" -- Norman Vincent Peale "You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose." -- Charles Lynch "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much." -- Jim Rohn "Something must die in order to grow - your old habits, your old self image, your old thinking, your old life... must be weeded out for the seeds of success to grow." -- Doug Firebaugh "For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting." -- Nido Qubein "The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't." -- Zig Ziglar "We all need lots of powerful long-range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles." -- Jim Rohn "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure." -- Jim Rohn "The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have." -- Nido Qubein "Where will you be in five years? Develop a plan, and then activate that plan to put yourself where you want to be in five years. Be sure to update your five-year plan at least annually in order to stay ahead of the game." -- Tom Hopkins "Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back." -- Harvey Mackay "Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future -- a vision based on common values -- is only training." -- Nido Qubein "Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word 'no' mean to a child? Almost nothing." -- Jim Rohn "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much." -- Jim Rohn "One of the marks of superior people is that they are action-oriented. One of the marks of average people is that they are talk-oriented." --Brian Tracy "The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." -- Vince Lombardi "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own." -- Benjamin Disraeli "List 20 things you are going to do in the next 30 days to fast-start your sales career. Then take action on at least one of them." -- Brian Tracy "Time is on your side...always has been....but which side is it on? Winning...or Losing?...Your choice." -- Dr. Maxwell Maltz "99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." -- George Washington Carver "When you have a clear purpose, you won't have time for negativity." -- Mark Victor Hansen "When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge." -- Terry Bradshaw "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." -- Tommy Lasorda "Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides." -- Margaret Thatcher "Decide exactly what you want in every area of your life; you can't hit a target you can't see." -- Brian Tracy "I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline... I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious." -- Vince Lombardi "The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful." -- Brian Tracy "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt "All of our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." -- Douglaus Everett "The first basic ingredient of leadership is a guiding vision. The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do - professionally and personally - and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures." -- Warren Bennis "The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them." -- Jim Rohn "Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be." -- Abraham Lincoln "Give a shelterless man tools and he will build a home. Inspire him, encourage him and give him vision, then he will build an empire." -- Rick Beneteau "If opportunity doesn't knock build a door." -- Milton Berle "If you believe you're right...stand up and fight for your place in the sun. If you believe you can do it, hang in for the whole 15 rounds because even if you don't win, you will have earned the respect of everyone in the fight, including yourself, and in that sense you will have prevailed." -- Erin Brockovich "Never, Never, Never Quit." -- Winston Churchill "It's how you deal with failure that determines your success." -- Rick Beneteau "Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity." -- Albert Einstein "Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential." -- Winston Churchill "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -- Walter Bagehot "It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly." -- Robert H. Schuller "You'll miss 100% of the shots you never take." -- Wayne Gretsky "Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly." -- Robert H. Schuller "Be like a postage stamp -- stick to one thing until you get there." -- Josh Billings "You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there." -- Norman Vincent Pearle "The reward is equal to the contribution." -- Unknown "Whether you believe you can or believe you can't… you're right." -- Henry Ford "My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there." -- Charles F. Kettering "An indecisive person allows instability to creep into every area of his life. If we don't decide what is important in our own lives, we will probably end up doing only the things that are important to others." -- John L. Mason "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want." -- Zig Ziglar "Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself." -- John MacNaughton "It is never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot "When we give it all, we can live with ourselves -- regardless of the results." -- Zig Ziglar "The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goals and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication." -- Cecile B. DeMille "The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude -- right attitudes provide right actions." -- William J. Johnston "Change your thoughts and you change your world." -- Norman Vincent Pearle "When the dream's big enough, the facts don't count." -- Dexter Yager "If you learn from defeat, you haven't realy lost." -- Unknown "You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals." -- Booket T. Washington "Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you can learn to do it well." -- Steve Brown "Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment." -- Peter Daniels "Plan your work for today, then work your plan." -- Norman Vincent Pearle "I would rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt to do nothing and succeed." -- Robert H. Schuller "God is the silent partner in all great enterprises." -- Abraham Lincoln "You need to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was." -- Irish Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." -- Vidal Sassoon
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