1000+ Business Motivational Quotes [MUST READ!!!]

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1000+ Business Motivational Quotes by Famous People!

First some great quotes by Warren Buffett:

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1."

"The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything."

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."

"Our favorite holding period is forever."

"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction."

"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."

"The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient."

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

"You can't make a good deal with a bad person."

"It's better to be approximately right than precisely wrong."

"The most important investment you can make is in yourself."

"You don't have to be a genius to invest well, but you do have to have discipline."

"The best investment you can make is in your own abilities."

"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."

"Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble."

"The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth."

"The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love. But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get."

"If you're in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%."

"A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought."

"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."

"I am a better investor because I am a businessman and a better businessman because I am an investor."

"If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians."

"The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect."

And here some quotes by Amazon owner, Jeff Bezos:

"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."

"Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room."

"If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve."

"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."

"We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with what the customer needs and we work backwards."

"I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out."

"In the end, we are our choices."

"If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness."

"If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting."

"The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works."

"There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery."

"Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful."

"What's dangerous is not to evolve."

"In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts."

"If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake, don't do anything new."

"The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'"

"The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated."

"I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate."

"I think one of the things that we stressed in the early days was this idea of being customer-focused. And I think that's still the right thing to do."

"What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tailwind is now a headwind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy."

"Our job is to invent new options that nobody's ever thought of before and see if customers like them."

"If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail."

"If you have a customer-focused culture, you can't really go wrong."

"The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine."

"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."

Albert Einstein: "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value."

And here are some good sayings from Jack Ma, Alibaba Owner:

"If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure."

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

"Opportunities lie in the place where the complaints are."

"It’s not about the idea, it’s about the execution."

"When we have money, we start making mistakes."

"You need the right people with you, not the best people."

"If we go to work at 8 am and go home at 5 pm, this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful."

"We are never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams, who can die for those dreams."

"If you want to be successful, learn from other people’s mistakes, not just your own."

"If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve."

"You never know how much can you do in your life."

"I don’t want to be liked. I want to be respected."

"You need the right timing, right place, right people and right idea."

"The very important thing you should have is patience."

"Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities."

Some gems from Richard Branson:

"If you want to be successful, you have to take risks."

"The best way of learning about anything is by doing."

"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over."

"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were."

"I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers."

"Screw it, let's do it."

"If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!"

"My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long university education that I never had – everyday I'm learning something new."

"The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master."

"You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission."

"My philosophy is that if I have any money, I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around."

"The best businesses come from people's bad personal experiences. If you just keep your eyes open, you're going to find something that frustrates you, and then you think, 'well I could maybe do it better than it's being done,' and there you have a business."

"To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can't guarantee it just by following someone else's formula."

"The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world."

"To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials."

"The best ideas come from people who actually do the work."

"Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it."

"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."

"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."

"You shouldn't blindly accept a leader's advice. You've got to question leaders on occasion."

And some novel words from late Steve Jobs:

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

 

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

 

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

 

"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."

 

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."

 

"I want to put a ding in the universe."

 

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

 

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

 

"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."

 

"Your work is going to be 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."

 

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."

 

"It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."

 

"I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next."

 

"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new."

 

"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay."

 

"I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do."

 

"You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

 

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life."

"My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people."

Aristotle: "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Anna Wintour: "Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."

Andrew Carnegie: "The first step in achieving success is to decide what you want."

Arianna Huffington: "Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success."

Amelia Earhart: "The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

Abraham Lincoln: "I will prepare and someday my chance will come."

Ashton Kutcher: "Opportunity looks a lot like hard work."

Alice Walker: "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

Arthur Ashe: "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

Ayn Rand: "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."

Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."

Andy Warhol: "Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."

Anthony Robbins: "It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

Amy Poehler: "As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."

Anna Kendrick: "The only tactic I have ever found to be effective is to be honest. Painfully honest."

Aaron Levie: "Great companies are built on great products."

Aaliyah: "It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are."

Andre Agassi: "Find something that you love to do and do it better than anyone else."

Alfred Hitchcock: "The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."

Adam Smith: "The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations."

Arnold H. Glasow: "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after."

Andrew Grove: "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."

Auguste Rodin: "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

Bill Gates: "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

Benjamin Franklin: "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

Barbara Corcoran: "The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves."

Beyoncé: "I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself."

Bernard Baruch: "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

Bo Jackson: "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."

Bob Dylan: "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

Brian Tracy: "Your most valuable asset is your mind. You can use it to create whatever you want in life."

Bruce Lee: "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

Brian Chesky: "If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn't have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life."

Barbara Walters: "You can't make mistakes if you don't make decisions."

Blake Mycoskie: "Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn."

Bill Clinton: "The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change."

Brendon Burchard: "High performers are not born, they're made. They're cultivated through intentional habits."

Bette Midler: "The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you."

Brad Pitt: "I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me."

Booker T. Washington: "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

Barbara Kruger: "I shop, therefore I am."

Brett Favre: "You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit."

Bob Proctor: "If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand."

Barbara Streisand: "Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice."

Biz Stone: "Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."

Brooke Shields: "I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing."

Benjamin Disraeli: "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

Brian Acton: "Success is not a straight line, it's a squiggly line. It's about taking one step forward and two steps back, but always moving forward."

Coco Chanel: "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

Colin Powell: "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

Charles Darwin: "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."

Constance Wu: "Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream."

Carl Icahn: "In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten."

Christine Lagarde: "Women are not an homogenous group. We want to be recognized as individuals and respected for our own achievements."

Charles Schwab: "I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement."

Craig Newmark: "Everyone wants to succeed, but not everyone is willing to do what it takes."

Clarence Thomas: "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."

Cam Newton: "I have no plan B. I've burned my boats."

Christopher Reeve: "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."

Chris Gardner: "The cavalry isn't coming. You have to do this yourself."

Carly Fiorina: "The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others."

Cicero: "The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."

Carlos Slim Helu: "When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered."

Colin Kaepernick: "Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything."

Condoleezza Rice: "Life is full of surprises and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns."

C.S. Lewis: "Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."

Criss Jami: "The biggest challenge in life is being yourself… in a world trying to make you like everyone else."

Craig Groeschel: "Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses."

Charles M. Schwab: "A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."

Conor McGregor: "There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equals as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that's that. I am not talented. I am obsessed."

Clayton Christensen: "The hallmark of successful innovators is not speed or breakthrough technology, but insatiable curiosity."

Chris Hadfield: "The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things."

Catherine Pulsifer: "Success is not just about what you accomplish in your life; it's about what you

Dale Carnegie: "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

David Ogilvy: "The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything."

Dan Pink: "The science shows that the secret to high performance isn't our biological drive or our reward-and-punishment drive, but our third drive — our deep-seated desire to direct our own lives, to extend and expand our abilities, and to live a life of purpose."

Donald Trump: "In business, you have to be a little bit ruthless."

Darren Hardy: "Small, Smart Choices + Consistency + Time = RADICAL DIFFERENCE."

Drew Houston: "Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

Deepak Chopra: "Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals."

Darren Rowse: "Passion is the key to success in anything you do. Make sure you are doing something that inspires you."

Doug Conant: "To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace."

Daymond John: "The best way to predict the future is to create it."

Diane von Furstenberg: "I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be."

Dhirubhai Ambani: "If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs."

Debbie Fields: "The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it."

Dr. Seuss: "You're off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way."

Daniel Goleman: "Emotional intelligence is a way of recognizing, understanding, and choosing how we think, feel, and act. It shapes our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. It defines how and what we learn; it allows us to set priorities; it determines the majority of our daily actions."

Denise Morrison: "You can't succeed coming to the potluck with only a fork."

Darren Entwistle: "It is my firm belief that if you want to excel in business and in life, you need to make a conscious effort to surround yourself with people who have different opinions, experiences, and perspectives than your own."

Dick Costolo: "When you're a successful entrepreneur, sometimes you get pulled in different directions because you're getting a lot of opportunities to do things, and you have to be careful which ones you take and which ones you don't."

Dolly Parton: "I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."

Dov Seidman: "In the 21st century, the most valuable asset you can possess is a sense of wonder. It is the antidote to cynicism, boredom, and despair. Wonder is the most generative force that you can bring to any problem, challenge, or opportunity."

David Allen: "Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them."

David Geffen: "If you want to be successful in business, you need to be able to connect with people. You need to be

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Elon Musk: "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."

Earl Nightingale: "We become what we think about."

Estée Lauder: "I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

Eric Ries: "The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else."

Eleanor Roosevelt: "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Eileen Fisher: "Life-fulfilling work is never about the money - when you feel true passion for something, you instinctively find ways to nurture it."

Eric Thomas: "You have to want to be successful more than you want to breathe."

Eckhart Tolle: "Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness."

Evan Williams: "Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything."

Eddie Cantor: "It takes twenty years to become an overnight success."

Erma Bombeck: "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me."

Elon Musk: "I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better."

Edward de Bono: "The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language."

Elizabeth Holmes: "I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed."

Eric Schmidt: "Our goal is to make it easier for people to turn their ideas into reality."

Elbert Hubbard: "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear that you will make one."

Eli Broad: "I think the biggest mistake that people make is they start small and they think small."

Esther Hicks: "The greatest gift you can give yourself is joy, not only because of the feeling that goes with it at the moment, but because of the magnificent experience it will draw to you."

Ed Catmull: "If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will either fix it or come up with something better."

Eleanor Roosevelt: "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Ellen DeGeneres: "Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that."

Evan Spiegel: "In times of despair, you may believe the cynic who tells you that one person cannot make difference - and there are times it may be hard to see your own impact. I beg you to remember that it is not possible at this time or any time to know the end results of our efforts."

Eric Schmidt: "We run this company on questions, not answers."

Elon Musk: "If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it."

Elizabeth Gilbert: "Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

Frank Lloyd Wright: "I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

Fred Smith: "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

Francesca Gino: "Curiosity is a critical ingredient to success, and it should be cultivated."

Flora Lewis: "Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children."

Floyd Mayweather Jr.: "I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me."

Florence Nightingale: "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

Frank Ocean: "Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."

Felix Dennis: "The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

Frederick Douglass: "Without a struggle, there can be no progress."

Francois-Henri Pinault: "Leadership is about taking risks, and it doesn't come from a textbook."

Frank Abagnale: "The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way, they remember you."

Folorunsho Alakija: "My prayer is that my work should inspire other women to work hard to achieve their goals."

Frank Sinatra: "The best revenge is massive success."

Friedrich Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

Fernanda Montenegro: "You can do anything, but not everything."

Fred DeLuca: "In business, you have to constantly learn and adapt. If you don't, you're going to be left behind."

Frank Bettger: "If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."

Fred Wilson: "Success in the technology world is not just about money, it's about having a positive impact on people's lives."

Franz Kafka: "Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."

Faye Dunaway: "You have to be confident in who you are and what you're doing. Otherwise, you'll just be following the crowd."

Frederick Buechner: "Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need."

Ferran Adria: "The most important thing is to work hard and stay focused. It's not about being lucky, it's about being persistent."

Fran Tarkenton: "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

Floyd Norris: "A good company is one that can deliver a good product or service at a fair price and still make money."

George Bernard Shaw: "People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

Gary Vaynerchuk: "There's no such thing as a bad idea. Just ideas that aren't executed properly."

Gordon Ramsay: "In any business, it's about getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats."

George S. Patton: "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."

Grant Cardone: "Success is not something that happens to you, it's something that you create."

Ginni Rometty: "Growth and comfort do not coexist."

Guy Kawasaki: "Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard."

George Washington: "Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages."

Gisele Bundchen: "The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become."

Gail Kelly: "The most successful leaders are those most adept at coming up with practical solutions to the challenges they face."

Geoffrey F. Abert: "The difference between success and failure is information."

Gloria Steinem: "Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

Glenn Beck: "I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process."

Greg Plitt: "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."

Ginni Rometty: "The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

Gary Keller: "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."

George Lucas: "You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead."

Grace Hopper: "The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'"

Golda Meir: "Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

Guy Laliberte: "Life is full of adventure. There's no such thing as a clear pathway."

George Foreman: "The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income."

General George Marshall: "Do your best, and do it in a timely fashion."

Geraldine Ferraro: "I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have."

Guy Raz: "Great ideas don't come from inside the building, they come from outside."

Graham Hill: "Minimalism is not a lack of something. It's simply the perfect amount of something."

Henry Ford: "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."

Helen Keller: "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

Haruki Murakami: "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

Harvey Mackay: "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail."

Howard Schultz: "I think in the end, we all aspire to be successful in our lives, and success is nothing without a sense of purpose."

Hillary Clinton: "Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you."

Herb Kelleher: "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."

Harry S. Truman: "In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first."

Henry David Thoreau: "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."

Hans Christian Andersen: "Where words fail, music speaks."

Harvey Specter (fictional character from Suits): "I don't play the odds, I play the man."

Hugh Jackman: "I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

Halle Berry: "It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career."

Horace Mann: "Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves."

Herman Melville: "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

Helen Edwards: "Success is not just about what you accomplish in your life, it's about what you inspire others to do."

Henry Kissinger: "The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been."

Harry Potter (fictional character from the Harry Potter series): "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

Henry Rollins: "Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."

Horatio Nelson: "Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat."

Hoda Kotb: "There's always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world, I do think it's not asking too much to love those we share the world with."

Henry J. Kaiser: "Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."

Helen Gurley Brown: "Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep."

Hedy Lamarr: "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."

Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Indra Nooyi: "Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader."

Immanuel Kant: "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."

Ingvar Kamprad: "The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow."

Isadora Duncan: "The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space."

Iyanla Vanzant: "Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth."

Irving Berlin: "The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."

Ida Tarbell: "The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply the ability to get along with people."

Ina Garten: "I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in my life."

Isaac Mizrahi: "You can't fake passion."

Imelda Marcos: "I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty."

Ian Fleming: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."

Ilhan Omar: "We are all born with an inherent capacity to grow and succeed, but it's up to us to develop and cultivate that capacity."

Ivan Pavlov: "Education is the transmission of acquired knowledge."

Ida B. Wells: "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: "We cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful."

Ice-T: "I love music, and outside of work, that's probably all I do."

Italo Calvino: "The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."

Ivan Turgenev: "If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin."

Imran Khan: "A nation can never be worthy of its existence if it does not take its young people seriously."

Ingrid Bergman: "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

Isaac Asimov: "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

Ira Glass: "Great stories happen to those who can tell them."

Ignacy Jan Paderewski: "The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."

Isabel Allende: "We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."

Jack Ma: "If you want to be successful, learn from other people's mistakes, not just your own."

Jeff Bezos: "Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room."

Jim Rohn: "Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."

Jay-Z: "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man."

J.K. Rowling: "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."

John D. Rockefeller: "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

Joe Biden: "Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value."

J. Paul Getty: "The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights."

Jony Ive: "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

James Cash Penney: "Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."

Jane Goodall: "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Joyce Meyer: "Trust is built in very small moments."

John C. Maxwell: "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

Jeff Weiner: "True entrepreneurship comes only from risk-taking."

Jennifer Aniston: "I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life."

James Cameron: "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."

John Wooden: "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."

J.K. Simmons: "The more you can keep a sense of humor about things, the better off you'll be."

Jiddu Krishnamurti: "The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."

Jim Collins: "Good is the enemy of great."

Jimmy Dean: "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

Julia Child: "The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking, you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude."

J.K. Galbraith: "All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

Jon Bon Jovi: "Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."

Karen Lamb: "A year from now you may wish you had started today."

Kevin O'Leary: "I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process."

Kobe Bryant: "The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win."

Khalil Gibran: "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

Ken Blanchard: "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."

Kelly Rowland: "Don't ever give up on yourself. You're worth it."

Kim Kardashian: "I work really hard, but I also know how to have fun."

Karl Lagerfeld: "Trendy is the last stage before tacky."

Kofi Annan: "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

Kelly Hoppen: "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

Kristin Chenoweth: "We're not given a good life or a bad life. We're given a life. It's up to us to make it good or bad."

Kimora Lee Simmons: "Fabulosity is a state of mind."

Kirk Douglas: "The learning process continues until the day you die."

Keith Ferrazzi: "The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity."

Kamala Harris: "The American dream belongs to all of us."

Katie Couric: "If you're a woman and want to get ahead, you have to ask for what you want."

Kathryn Bigelow: "If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies."

Khaled Hosseini: "A thousand times over, yes."

Kevin Hart: "My goals have always been the same: to keep moving forward, to keep doing good work, and to keep growing as an artist."

Kelly Clarkson: "No one can be just like me anyway."

Kate Moss: "I'm not a bossy boss. I'm a boss."

Karen Walker: "Never be afraid to reinvent yourself."

Kim Gordon: "It's okay to be a freak."

Kurt Cobain: "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

Kara Swisher: "I think it's not only important to be curious but to continually expand your sense of what you know and the world in general."

Leonardo da Vinci: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

Lao Tzu: "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

Les Brown: "You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great."

Lee Iacocca: "The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better."

Larry Page: "Always deliver more than expected."

Lucille Ball: "I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."

Lou Holtz: "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

Louis Vuitton: "The quality of a product is not just about the product itself, but also the environment in which it is produced."

Lebron James: "I like criticism. It makes you strong."

Linda McMahon: "Entrepreneurship is about creating change, not just companies."

Lisa Gansky: "A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir."

Lance Armstrong: "Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."

Les Wexner: "In business, there are no shortcuts. Success requires hard work and perseverance."

Laura Ashley: "If you look at any successful company, you'll find that it is full of people who take risks and are not afraid to fail."

Li Ka-shing: "Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown."

Lyndon B. Johnson: "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

Lewis Howes: "Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline."

Larry Ellison: "I believe people have to follow their dreams—I did."

Lily Tomlin: "I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody."

Lululemon: "Life is full of setbacks. Success is determined by how you handle setbacks."

Lionel Messi: "There is no shortcut. You have to work hard and try to put yourself in a position to be successful."

Liz Claiborne: "I always had a sense of humor about failure."

Louise Hay: "I trust the process of life to bring me my highest good."

Lisa Sugar: "It's so important to be a great listener and to listen more than you talk."

Lily Singh: "Don't be afraid to stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone."

Mark Cuban: "Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it."

Mary Kay Ash: "Dare to dream, and then make it happen."

Michael Jordan: "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

Malcolm X: "Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."

Melinda Gates: "A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman."

Margaret Thatcher: "Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan."

Michael Dell: "There is no better catalyst to success than curiosity."

Mark Zuckerberg: "In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

Maya Angelou: "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Martha Stewart: "Life is too complicated not to be orderly."

Marissa Mayer: "I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough."

Muhammad Ali: "I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

Martin Luther King Jr.: "The time is always right to do what is right."

Meg Whitman: "The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake."

Michelle Obama: "Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives."

Mario Andretti: "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

Magic Johnson: "You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it."

Milton Hershey: "Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising."

Marcus Lemonis: "The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves."

Michael Bloomberg: "Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude."

Muhammad Yunus: "If you want to do something, do it now. If you don't, you're going to regret it."

Marie Forleo: "Clarity comes from engagement, not thought."

Mike Tyson: "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

Mary Barra: "We want to be recognized as a company that's known for keeping its promises."

Meryl Streep: "The formula of happiness and success is just being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can."

Napoleon Hill: "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

Nelson Mandela: "It always seems impossible until it's done."

Nancy Pelosi: "Know your power and use it."

Nate Berkus: "Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love."

Nido Qubein: "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

Neil deGrasse Tyson: "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."

Nikita Khrushchev: "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."

Nick Woodman: "GoPro is not a camera company; we're a sharing company."

Naomi Campbell: "I don't believe in luck. It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream."

Nick Vujicic: "Your attitude determines your altitude."

Nolan Bushnell: "The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."

Norman Vincent Peale: "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy."

Nas: "I know that the hustle is the means to the end. But the end is to make the world a better place."

Nate Silver: "The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth."

Naveen Jain: "I think the biggest mistake that people make is they think that they work for someone else."

Ndamukong Suh: "You're not given anything, you're not entitled to anything. You work hard for everything you get."

Neale Donald Walsch: "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

Nick Saban: "Don't ever let anyone talk you out of pursuing your dreams."

Nellie Bly: "Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything."

Noel Gallagher: "Success breeds confidence."

Norman Schwarzkopf: "Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."

Nia Long: "It's never too late to pursue your passion."

Niall Horan: "The best advice I've ever received is to be yourself."

Nate Diaz: "Hard work and dedication pays off."

Noah Kagan: "The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else."

Oprah Winfrey: "The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.: "The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving."

Orison Swett Marden: "Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Oscar Wilde: "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

Og Mandino: "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

Otis Redding: "You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management."

Omar Khayyam: "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

O. Henry: "The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate."

Olivia Wilde: "I think confidence is one of the sexiest things to have. I don't mean arrogance or conceit, but a belief in oneself."

Oliver Stone: "The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them."

Orville Wright: "If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance."

Oprah Winfrey: "Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

Octavia Butler: "You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it."

O. J. Simpson: "I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."

Ovid: "Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

Oprah Winfrey: "I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk."

Oscar de la Renta: "The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness."

O. Henry: "The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

Oprah Winfrey: "I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear."

Olivia Munn: "I think confidence is one of the sexiest things to have. I don't mean arrogance or conceit, but a belief in oneself."

Og Mandino: "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.: "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."

Oprah Winfrey: "Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

Oscar Wilde: "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

Peter Drucker: "The best way to predict your future is to create it."

Pablo Picasso: "Action is the foundational key to all success."

Paul Allen: "Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high."

Paulo Coelho: "Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

Pearl S. Buck: "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."

Peter Lynch: "Know what you own, and know why you own it."

Peter Thiel: "Competition is for losers."

Patrick Lencioni: "The only way to get ahead is to start now. The only way to start now is to start small."

P. T. Barnum: "Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant."

Phil Knight: "The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us."

Pierre Omidyar: "The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn't fail. It still didn't really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal."

Paulo Coelho: "People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."

Peter F. Drucker: "Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."

Philip Green: "You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."

Paul J. Meyer: "Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!"

Paulo Coelho: "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

Peter Drucker: "Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

Phil Jackson: "The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."

Paul J. Meyer: "Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."

Paul Tudor Jones: "The most important thing about money is to maintain its purchasing power over time."

Paul J. Meyer: "If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal."

Peter Drucker: "The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."

Peter Diamandis: "The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself."

Patrick Bet-David: "You can't get wealthy on just one source of income."

Peter Lynch: "The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them."

Quentin Tarantino: "I'm not a Hollywood filmmaker, I'm a pirate. I'm a buccaneer."

Queen Elizabeth II: "I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together."

Quincy Jones: "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."

Qasim Ali Shah: "If you want to be successful in life, make sure that your desire to achieve is greater than your fear of failure."

Queen Rania of Jordan: "Education is the key to economic success."

Qaisra Shahraz: "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

Quang Ho: "Success is not about the money you make, but the difference you make in people's lives."

Queen Latifah: "Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve."

Quora user: "If you're not willing to risk the unusual, you'll have to settle for the ordinary."

Qiu Jin: "Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes."

Quentin Crisp: "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

Quan Nguyen: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

Quino: "Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and softly sits on your shoulder."

Qasim Ali Shah: "Success is not a destination, it's a journey."

Queen Victoria: "Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."

Quang Dang: "Success is not about what you have, but about who you are."

Queen Noor of Jordan: "The most rewarding things in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done."

Quintilian: "We learn not for school, but for life."

Queen Elizabeth I: "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king."

Quentin Blake: "I sometimes think that the very best of us are those who can find some happiness in the world as it is."

Richard Branson: "Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it."

Robert Kiyosaki: "The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way."

Ray Kroc: "The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it."

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: "Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

Richard Feynman: "You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state."

Rachel Hollis: "The hard stuff is what will change your life."

Robert Frost: "The best way out is always through."

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."

Reid Hoffman: "As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure."

Ronald Reagan: "There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder."

Ryan Holiday: "When you have the courage to take action, you're taking control of your destiny."

Roger Federer: "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

Richard Nixon: "The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

Ray Dalio: "Being truthful, especially about our own shortcomings, is the first step in achieving meaningful change."

Robert Herjavec: "A goal without a deadline is just a dream."

Rumi: "What you seek is seeking you."

Rupert Murdoch: "In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."

Reid Hoffman: "In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists."

Ryan Smith: "Success is not final, and failure is not fatal. It's the courage to continue that counts."

Richard Thaler: "We seem to be living in the riskiest moment of our lives, and yet the stock market seems to be napping."

Rosa Parks: "Each person must live their life as a model for others."

Rick Pitino: "The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different."

Robert T. Kiyosaki: "Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success."

Ratan Tata: "I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right."

Ruth Reichl: "The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical."

Steve Jobs: "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."

Simon Sinek: "People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it."

Sheryl Sandberg: "Done is better than perfect."

Stephen Covey: "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

Seth Godin: "Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from."

Suze Orman: "The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem."

Sam Walton: "There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."

Sara Blakely: "Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail."

Steve Wozniak: "Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked."

Sara Bareilles: "I want to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. I think it will be my best book."

Scott Adams: "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

Sir Richard Branson: "If your dreams don't scare you, they are too small."

Simon Cowell: "I've always been ambitious, but I've always thought of ambition as being a word related to the pursuit of financial success. It doesn't need to be that way."

Sonia Sotomayor: "I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth."

Stanley Kubrick: "However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."

Sam Altman: "One of the most important things a founder can do in the early days is just survive long enough to get lucky."

Sophia Amoruso: "Life is short. Don't be lazy."

Steve Ballmer: "The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential."

Stephen King: "Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

Sarah Palin: "You have to be tough to make it in Alaska. It's not for the faint of heart. It's not for the weak-kneed."

Scott Belsky: "It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen."

Susan Wojcicki: "Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way."

Sallie Krawcheck: "Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics."

Serena Williams: "I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

Steve Forbes: "The best vision is insight."

Thomas Edison: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Tony Robbins: "Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

Tim Ferriss: "Focus on being productive instead of busy."

Tina Fey: "You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

T. Boone Pickens: "The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit."

Tyler Perry: "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

Thomas Watson: "To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart."

Tom Peters: "Celebrate what you want to see more of."

Tom Brady: "Sometimes the greatest challenges in life come from moments of disappointment and failure, but with hard work, perseverance, and self-belief there is no limit to what we can achieve."

Tom Hanks: "If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great."

Theodore Roosevelt: "Believe you can and you're halfway there."

Tony Hsieh: "Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you."

T. Harv Eker: "How you do anything is how you do everything."

Tim Cook: "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."

Travis Kalanick: "In the beginning, all you need is two people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, and the tenacity to make it happen."

Tony Blair: "The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes."

Taylor Swift: "Just be yourself, there is no one better."

Ted Turner: "If your business is not a brand, it is a commodity."

Thich Nhat Hanh: "The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."

Tom Ford: "You can have anything you want if you dress for it."

Tony Dungy: "The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better."

Terry Pratchett: "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."

Tadashi Yanai: "Instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer."

Twyla Tharp: "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

Tyra Banks: "Don't ever give up on your dreams. Follow your passion, believe in yourself and stay the course."

Ursula Burns: "You can't be a good leader without a good team."

Usher: "Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream."

Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

Uzo Aduba: "The biggest challenge we all face is learning how to adapt to changing times."

Usain Bolt: "I have learned that pushing myself to the limit is what gives me the greatest satisfaction, and being happy with my achievements is what gives me the greatest joy."

Vince Lombardi: "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

Viktor Frankl: "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

Venus Williams: "You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there."

Vera Wang: "Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

Voltaire: "Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need."

Vera Nazarian: "The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow."

Vidal Sassoon: "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

Vaclav Havel: "Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Vince McMahon: "If you don't go all the way, why go at all?"

Viola Davis: "The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity."

Victoria Beckham: "I want women to feel empowered, to feel sexy and confident. This collection is a reflection of that."

Vladimir Putin: "Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle."

Valerie Jarrett: "The power of one individual to make a difference in the world is enormous. It's what moves the needle."

Victor Hugo: "Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Vera Farmiga: "I've learned that the most important thing you can do in life is to embrace who you are. Don't hide behind a mask. You are who you are, and that's beautiful."

Van Morrison: "All the things that seemed so important - things I thought I couldn't live without - have faded away, and now I'm left with only what truly matters."

Virgil Abloh: "To me, success is freedom."

Vidal Sassoon: "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

Valerie Plame: "It's important for all of us to remember that we are never alone in our struggles."

Vicente Fox: "There's no question that our economy, our society, and our country are stronger when we have comprehensive immigration reform."

Van Jones: "The truth is, we all do things that we wish we hadn't, but it's only by owning up to our mistakes that we can learn from them and move on."

Victor Wooten: "The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are. The second greatest is being happy with what you find."

Viggo Mortensen: "I think that if you're doing something that you love, then you're probably doing something that's going to be important to someone else."

Vince Gilligan: "Success is like a mountain: there's always another peak to climb."

Vusi Thembekwayo: "Success is never final, and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."

Warren Buffett - "The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything."

Walt Disney - "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

Winston Churchill - "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

Will Smith - "The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be outworked, period. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things—you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there's two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die."

William James - "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

William Shakespeare - "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

Wayne Gretzky - "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

Warren Bennis - "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."

William Feather - "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

William Jennings Bryan - "Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

William Hazlitt - "The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Will Durant - "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Walter Winchell - "The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration, then more practice and concentration."

Wayne Dyer - "You'll see it when you believe it."

William Faulkner - "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

Woody Allen - "80% of success is showing up."

William Penn - "Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains."

Walt Whitman - "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."

Will Rogers - "Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."

Walter Chrysler - "The real secret of success is enthusiasm."

Walter Lippmann - "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on."

William Inge - "Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due."

William Shakespeare - "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

Winston Churchill - "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Woody Guthrie - "Take it easy, but take it."

Xavier Rudd - "Success is when you can sit down with yourself and realize you've become the person you always wanted to be."

Xiaoguang “Tony” Zhang - "Do something for someone every day without expecting anything in return. That's how you achieve success."

Xiang Yu - "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

Xunzi - "The cautious seldom err."

Xu Zhimo - "I want freedom for the full expression of my personality."

Xander Berkeley - "I think that the most important thing is that people should be passionate about what they do."

Xu Zhiyong - "Believe in your dreams, your ideas, your vision, and your mission. Fight for them with courage and confidence."

Xander Ford - "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

Xochi Birch - "Find something you're passionate about and just do it. Passion is contagious."

Xi Jinping - "We must continue to promote innovation in science and technology, business models, and management systems, and actively foster new growth drivers and development models."

Xavion Alford - "Work hard, be confident, and never give up on your dreams."

Xiaoping Deng - "The people's wishes are our wishes. The people's interests are our interests. And the people's well-being is our well-being."

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez - "We all have the ability to create change. It's about being fearless, having a vision, and going after it."

Xu Bing - "Creativity is not just about making something new, but also about the process of making something new."

Xavier Dolan - "If you want to succeed, you have to work hard, take risks, and be willing to fail."

Xander Schauffele - "You have to be confident in yourself, believe in what you're doing, and stay focused on your goals."

Xander Harris - "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

Xun Kuang - "Work hard to achieve your goals, and don't be afraid to fail."

Xiuquan Du - "The key to success is perseverance, determination, and hard work."

Xander Corvus - "Success is not about being the best, but about being better than you were yesterday."

Xu Xiaoping - "Success is not a destination, it's a journey. You have to be willing to work hard and overcome obstacles along the way."

Xavier Niel - "Entrepreneurship is about taking risks, being creative, and having the courage to pursue your dreams."

Xander Parish - "Success is about pushing yourself to be better every day and never giving up on your goals."

Xu Beihong - "To be successful, you must have a vision, a plan, and the determination to see it through."

Xeni Jardin - "Success is not about being perfect, it's about learning from your mistakes and using them to grow."

Yogi Berra: "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

Yves Saint Laurent: "I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence."

Yann Martel: "Success is not just about what you accomplish in your life, it's about what you inspire others to do."

Yoko Ono: "You are not here to merely make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

Yousuf Karsh: "There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record."

Yo-Yo Ma: "Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks."

Yoweri Museveni: "Development requires peace, and peace requires development."

Yitzhak Rabin: "You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies."

Yang Lan: "The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things."

Yvon Chouinard: "The word 'adventure' has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong, that's when adventure starts."

Yasmeen Ghauri: "I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment."

Yoko Shimomura: "Music is a universal language capable of touching the hearts and souls of people everywhere."

Yara Shahidi: "I'm very aware that history is not just about looking back and remembering. It is about looking forward and creating a future."

Yann Arthus-Bertrand: "The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness."

Yvonne Jegede: "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

Yiyun Li: "The world isn't always what it seems, and what we see isn't always what we get."

Yaa Gyasi: "The truth is that home is not a place, but a feeling. It's where your heart is, and where you feel most alive."

Yuvraj Singh: "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

Yukio Mishima: "True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys."

Yvonne Orji: "Whatever you do, be consistent. Be so consistent that people can set their watches by you."

Yasmine Bleeth: "You have to believe in yourself and be strong. You never know what you are capable of until you try."

Yann Tiersen: "Music is a way of expressing emotion without words, and I love that."

Yara Greyjoy: "I don't need a crown to be a queen."

Yara Flor: "The world isn't going to save itself, so we better get to work."

Yousuf Karsh: "The camera is a medium that teaches people how to see without a camera."

Zig Ziglar: "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

Zora Neale Hurston: "I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands."

Zhang Xin: "Never give up, believe in yourself and strive for success."

Zalando Co-founder David Schneider: "If you want to be an entrepreneur, you have to find a gap in the market and exploit it."

Zhang Yiming: "Success is not about competition, it is about collaboration."

Zoe Saldana: "Success is not about the destination, but the journey. It's about the process, the daily grind and the journey that will make you proud."

Zinedine Zidane: "A winner is someone who gets up one more time than he was knocked down."

Zaha Hadid: "As an architect, you design for the present with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown."

Zoltan Kodaly: "Music is the universal language of mankind."

Zora Arkus-Duntov: "Without a continuous improvement, there is no longer life."

Zendaya: "There is no perfect life, there are always going to be ups and downs. But it's the way you handle those ups and downs that really defines you."

Zach Galifianakis: "You can't be funny without having your own opinions on things."

Zoë Kravitz: "Be confident in yourself and your abilities and you can achieve anything."

Zao Wou-Ki: "I think what I'm looking for is not to be found, but to be discovered."

Zlatan Ibrahimovic: "I am not afraid to take risks because I know I will not regret the things I have done, but the things I haven't done."

Zoella: "Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this."

Zhang Haidi: "I am not disabled, I am just differently-abled."

Zachary Levi: "You don't have to be perfect, you just have to be willing to learn."

Zoe Ball: "You have to embrace change, because change is the only constant in life."

Zaha Hadid: "I am always searching for new forms, new shapes, new materials, and new methods of construction."

Zoe Lister-Jones: "As an artist, you are always in a state of flux, and you are always learning and growing."

Ziauddin Yousafzai: "Education is the most powerful tool to change the world."

Zebulon Pike: "The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity."

Zayn Malik: "There is no limit to what we can achieve if we believe in ourselves and work hard towards our goals."

Zalando Co-founder Robert Gentz: "If you want to build a successful company, you have to build a great team."