In tough times we seek inspiration to succeed in life. It’s always a good idea to take a leaf from someone else’s book who has faced a similar situation. Daily affirmations make it easier to face challenges and overcome them. We have chosen some of the most thought-provoking motivational quotes for entrepreneurs, businessmen and go-getters.
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- “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” —Steve Jobs
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
- “Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.” – Henry Ford
- “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
- “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” —Phil Knight
- “Always deliver more than expected.” —Larry Page
- “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” — Jeff Bezos
- “If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” — Zig Ziglar
- “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” — Thomas Edison
- “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”— Henry David Thoreau
- “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” — Lisa Stone
- “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.” — Joel Spolsky
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” — Garrett Camp
- “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.” — Henry Ford
- “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” — Fred Wilson
- “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” — Coco Chanel
- “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville
- “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb
- “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” — Chris Grosser
- “You Don’t Have To Be Great To Start, But You Have To Start To Be Great.” — Zig Ziglar
- “A Clear Vision, Backed By Definite Plans, Gives You A Tremendous Feeling Of Confidence And Personal Power.” — Brian Tracy
- *Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own.” — Bruce Lee
- “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” — Peter F. Drucker
- “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas Edison
- “Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.” — Bruce Lee
- “If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Make every detail perfect, and limit the number of details to perfect.” — Jack Dorsey
- “Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.” — Bill Gates
- “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” Bruce Lee
- “If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.” — Marissa Mayer, president & CEO of Yahoo!
- “To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” — Tony Dorsett
- “The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.” — John Naisbitt
- “In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.” — Harold Geneen
- “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” — Charles Darwin
- “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” — Peter F. Drucker
- “To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” — George Kneller
- “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell
- “You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.” — Zig Ziglar
- “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.“– Buddha
- “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John C. Maxwell
- “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” — Bill Gates
- “When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.”— Elon Musk
- “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” — Robert H. Schuller
- “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”—
- “In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.”— Bruce Lee
- “To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” — George MacDonald
- “Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.” — Walter Cronkite
- “Be sure you put your feet in the right place. Then stand firm.” —Abraham Lincoln
- “I wouldn’t ask anyone to do anything I wouldn’t do myself.” —Indra Nooyi