Motivation and productivity are some of the key ingredients of business success. As a business leaders, entrepreneurs and managers, one must realize that to achieve big, one has to be a self starter to get ahead. Being productive helps in making others around us more productive. Here some interesting quotes on motivation and productivity:
- “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” —Jim Rohn
- “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney
- “Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” —Vaibhav Shah
- “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” —Henry C. Link
- “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” —Thomas J. Peters
- “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” —Chris Grosser
- “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
- “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” —David Brinkley
- “If you’re going through hell keep going.” —Winston Churchill
- “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” — Francis Of Assisi
- “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” —Oscar Wilde
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” —John D. Rockefeller
- “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein
- “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” —Zig Ziglar
- “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” —Lolly Daskal
- “I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.” —Ben Stiller
- “Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.” —Mario Draghi.
- “A worker without genius is better than a genius who won’t work.” —Leopold Auer
- “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” —Steve Jobs
- “Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.” —A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
- “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” —Napoleon Hill
- “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” —Thomas Jefferson
Here Sir Thomas Jefferson tries to express his amusement from the people who believes in luck. Luck has nothing to do with success. It’s our hard work and determination that keeps us going and pushing our limits. Further, Sir Frank Sinatra clears the doubt by saying that,
- “People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.” —Frank Sinatra
- “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” —Paul J. Meyer
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” —Robert Collier
- “Happen to things, don’t let things happen to you.” —Stephen Covey
- “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” —Pablo Picasso
- “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” —Earl Nightingale
- “Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” —Warren Buffett
- “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” —Maya Angelou
- “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.” —Michael Jordan
- “To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” —Eva Young
- “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” —Bill Gates
- “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” —Muhammad Ali
- “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” —Mark Caine
- “Plans are nothing; planning is everything.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Learning never exhausts the mind.” —Leonardo da Vinci
- “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” —Henry Ford
- “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” –Olin Miller
- “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” —Bruce Lee
- “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” —Jim Rohn
- “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” —Robert Kiyosaki
- “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” —Stephen King
- “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” —Diane Ackerman
- “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” —Peter Drucker
- “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” —Jim Ryun
- “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” —Wayne Dyer
- “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” —Truman Capote
- “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” —Napoleon Hill
Quotes are everyday guidelines to become better business owners and individuals. They help us become more productive by putting away the procrastination that may be pulling us down.
