My Favourite Business Quotes Part 1

This collection of business quotes will inspire and motivate you. Business is all about thinking, planning, forecasting and acting. Hopefully theses inspirational quotes may help you do the same and give you useful ideas to develop your business further.

My favorite word is CANI. This stands for:

C - constant
A - and
N - never-ending
I – improvement

I believe CANI came from Tony Robbins.

Right, let us get started:

"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results." - Tony Robbins

"It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor" - Edmund Spencer

"Other people can stop you temporarily. You're the only one who can do it permanently." - Zig Ziglar

"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." - Lee Iacocca

"He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life is like the man who ploughs in his field but does not sow" – Saadi

"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

"There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces -- and success instead of eluding him flows toward him." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving "singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader." - Paul J. Meyer

"Concentration, Dedication and a never quit Attitude - these intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost." - Tom Seaver

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Kahlil Gibran

"I Can't is a quitter,
I Don't Know is lazy,
I Wish I Could is a wisher,
I Might is waking up,
I Will Try is on his feet,
I Can is on his way,
I Will is at work,
I Did is now the boss."
- Earl Cassel

"Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy." - Kahlil Gibran

"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life." - Edward B. Butler

"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth." - Napoleon Hill

"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path." - Kahlil Gibran

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. " - Tony Robbins

I do not know the author of these, but they are great inspirational quotes;

Son, employees are like mules. Some you stand in front of and coax them along with a carrot. Some you stand behind and kick them in the ass. The key to business management is knowing which mules are which.

Finally, one of my favorites: “Only a fool carries on doing exactly the same thing and expects different results”.