Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t March 2, 2019 bizadmin Good to Great seems to be an interesting read in your spare time or bedtime. You cannot ignore this book if you own a company and are struggling to run it; be it financial issues or employee-employer issues, etc. Many of the rich people spend at least 2 hours each day reading a book and Bill Gates is known to read many books a year! We learn from the great authors with experience and tap into their brains. Here’s a summary of the book: The Challenge: Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study: For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards: Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world’s greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons: The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness — why some companies make the leap and others don’t. The Findings: The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept: (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, “fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings? Check out HERE.
“1 Stock Millionaires” Reveal Their Secret March 1, 2019 bizadmin 10,000 Americans are now “one stock millionaires” because they invested in a little-known penny stock that soared 80,962% over time. Imagine their joy as they watched their gains soar past $100,000, up to $500,000, and then over $1 million. These folks now have the freedom to retire early, buy a new house, or go on the vacation of their dreams … or do all three, if they choose. That one penny stock? It’s none other than Microsoft, and of course, these investors had to get in before shares soared from a few cents to over $100. And while the idea of getting in “before” a big move like this seems impossible – that’s exactly what Paul Mampilly — the Wall Street legend who recommended Microsoft early on – is exceptional at. It’s why, when he was a hedge fund manager, Barron’s named his $25 billion funds “one of the world’s best” and Kiplinger ranked it in the top 1%. Now, in a controversial new video, Paul reveals a stock that he believes could follow a similar path. He even shows viewers how they can get in before this stock takes off … so you will have the opportunity to become the next “one stock millionaire.” The last time Paul released a video like this, viewers reported making $121,319 … $627,573 … and even $900,000. But here’s the thing, Paul believes this new opportunity will be more significant than every other recommendation he’s made in his decorated career. As he says in his new video: “This software company is like Microsoft in its infancy. It holds the key to a tech industry primed to grow 77,400%.” To see the video, just click the play button below, or go here now.
$4,000 a Month Editing Files at Home February 24, 2019 bizadmin Scoping is nothing but editing transcripts from the courtroom. The court reporter writes out the legal proceedings and it’s your job as a scopist to edit them. This job doesn’t need you to be physically present in the courtroom and won’t need you to meet the court reporter either. Everything can be done from your home with your computer. Scopists can earn up to $50,000/year which is a great revenue stream if you like working from home. Sounds like this might be something you are interested in? The Internet Scoping School (ISS) is the place where you get trained to be a scopist and I have Linda Evenson on my blog today. She is an amazing woman! My only interaction with her was through our emails, and she was lovely to work with 🙂 She has been scoping for 35 years and is the course Instructor. Here’s what she had to say. What is scoping? Scoping is the editing of files created by court reporters of depositions, court cases, hearings, and other proceedings. As scopists, we read the files word for word and get the file as close to perfect as possible. It then goes back to the reporter to a proofreader for the last read-through before going out to attorneys. How do you know if you might be a good scopist? People who are likely to be good at scoping are those who love to read and write, work crossword puzzles, play word games, learn new words, and love language. Scopists also need to be able to sit at a computer for many hours a day and concentrate. They must be motivated self-starters, organized, conscientious, and client oriented. What experience/ skill does it require? Scopists are ahead of the game if they are good spellers and have a good vocabulary. Since scopists are paid by the page, the more efficiently we can edit, the more money we can make per hour/day/month/year. Like anything, the more you scope, the better/faster you’ll get. Experience is one of the few benefits of aging! I have found court reporters to be very accepting of new scopists, provided they are well trained, do a good job, meet their deadlines, and take good care of their clients. Your training course should be able to teach you all the knowledge and skills you need so that you have the confidence when you begin scoping that you know exactly what you are doing. The very first job you do should be as good as the fiftieth. ISS does exactly that! You have my word on it. Can you work from anywhere with a scoping job? These days, we receive and return files via the internet. So if you have a good internet signal, you can work from almost anywhere for any reporter anywhere. Years ago, I worked in a park while my kids took swimming lessons; I’ve worked from our camper beside a lake, and I’ve sent and received files while my husband was driving down the interstate. Compared to being stuck in a stuffy office, running an old mainframe computer, we’ve come a long way, baby! How do we correspond with the court reporter? Most communication is done via email and texting. I have worked with reporters for quite a while and have never heard their voices or seen their faces. It can seem kind of weird at first. However, I used to go to the national convention every year, and I have to say it was a lot of fun to put faces to scopists’ and reporters’ names. People in this profession are smart, wonderful people. I have made many good friends through the years. What tools do we need to have to work as a scopist? A relatively recent computer Dependable high-speed internet access CAT software upon which you will edit the files: I teach Case CATalyst software Reference books (optional): While we used to have expensive/extensive reference libraries, almost anything can now be found online, which has alleviated the need for this expense. A great training course: Internet Scoping School There is no substitute for the most thorough, comprehensive program you can get. ISS has two to three times the training material of other online courses, the most experienced instructor, and it is the only course to thoroughly train students in reading steno notes and the intricacies of running the software. ISS also offers almost 50 files, written by a dozen different reporters, upon which you can practice editing to the reporter’s preference form. You won’t find a more thorough program anywhere. What is the salary of a scopist? As a new graduate, you should work with one reporter for a little while to get your feet wet and get into the scoping “groove.” Once you get a feel for how many pages you can edit per hour/day, start adding clients. You will need to market your own business, but we have several lessons that will help you learn how to do that. The school also passes on reporter contacts that we get, and grads often refer clients to each other. You might only make 20K/year or less starting out, but once you get up to full time, you should be able to make 30-50K per year. If you get into the high-stress rush work, you can make even more. How long does it take to complete the course? Do we get help after course completion? If a student can dedicate 15-20 hours/week to studying, s/he should be able to complete the training in six months or less. Compare that to a four-year college degree! There are tons of quizzes with answer keys, as well as final exams on each section. Students are given a great deal of feedback on exams and asked to look up rules and correct answers. Students are allowed to restudy sections and retake tests if they don’t score at least 85% on exams. Unlike colleges, the goal of this course is not the grades: It’s the working knowledge and skill that graduates need to make a successful scoping business for themselves. ISS students are given LIFETIME access to the website and the instructor. If the training is updated, that material is available FREE to all grads. If new sections are added, they are available at a steep discount. We have a public and a private Facebook page, the latter for students and grads only. We interact, ask questions, give advice, refer work, share experiences, and do our best to see that each person succeeds. As the instructor, I am available online during working hours Monday through Friday, and I’m usually online weekends too. It is a point of honor with me that I respond to emails promptly and thoroughly. I am always available to answer questions, even for experienced grads, and I take a personal interest in the success of every. single. person. If there’s anything I can do to make an ISS grad successful, I do it. For those who are good at/enjoy working with words and want to own their own business and work from home, scoping is the perfect career choice. I’ve been scoping since 1980, and I still love what I do. No one has to tell me how blessed I am! Maybe it will be that way for you too! There you go! Right from the instructor! Think you’d like to give scoping a shot? You’ll never know until you’ve tried it. Linda also has a free course that you can sign up below and see if this is something that might suit you. FREE SCOPING COURSE ENROLLMENT
FastestVPN Review February 15, 2019 bizadmin The VPN market is arguably getting saturated with new VPN services popping up every year. It’s hard not to see many, it not all, of them as a “me too” attempt. But among such services can emerge a VPN service that has the potential to be the best. And that’s exactly what we’re going to talk about as we discuss a new VPN service which goes by the name FastestVPN. Overview: Operating out of the Cayman Islands, FastestVPN is a relatively new VPN in the market; relative to the other VPNs in the market which it hopes to compete with. First things first, it’s a big relief that FastestVPN operates out of the Cayman Islands, that’s a big plus in its favor straightaway. For those unaware, Cayman Islands does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Five Eyes. Five Eyes is alliance of five major countries; United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, and New Zealand. The primary function of this alliance is to keep a tight watch on its citizen via signal intelligence. This has been a major concern for people living in the respective countries. Operating in a land that does not fall under Five Eyes’ jurisdiction means that the government cannot ask the VPN service to record logs or provide information about you. Let’s dive in to the features that make FastestVPN a promising new VPN service. Security As much as government surveillance is a concern, data theft is an equally big concern. When we share data through an unsecured network, it’s susceptible to theft by hackers. It is especially when you’re using public Wi-Fi hotspots as such networks are generally very unsecure. Someone on the same network could potentially snoop on your online activity and steal personal information. VPN prevents this by encrypting your data. FastestVPN features the highly-reliable AES 256-bit encryption technology. It’s used even by the United States military to secure communication. You can expect your internet traffic to be secure as possible, because it’s virtually impossible to break AES 256-bit encryption because of the computing power required. Geographic Coverage Geographic coverage is an important factor when deciding for a VPN. The more geographic locations a VPN service covers, the more locations you spoof as. FastestVPN features a network of more than 150 servers worldwide. The figure is quite low compared to other more established VPNs but it covers all the important geographic locations like the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, and more. The figure will only grow overtime as FastestVPN continues to flourish in the market. App Compatibility FastestVPN offers dedicated apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. The apps come preconfigured right out-of-the-box, so no work is required on your part. Just download, install, and start using. But support for platforms extends beyond that. It actually supports more than 20 platforms including video-games consoles, Roku, and Linux. FastestVPN can be configured directly in the Router which effectively provides VPN protection on devices for which there is no dedicated app support. There are a couple of installation tutorials available on their website. It also comes with the option to switch between protocols. You can manually set protocols for the best compatibility with devices. Here’s the complete list of VPN protocols available: PPTP L2TP OpenVPN Xsec OpenConnect IKEv2 Pricing It boils down to pricing where FastestVPN distinguishes itself in this saturated market. There are multiple packages for customers to choose from, starting with a one month package. At the time of writing this article, FastestVPN is offering up to 92% discount. Check out the packages: 5 Year Plan – $49.95 3 Year Plan – $39.95 1 Year Plan – $29.95 1 Month Plan – $10.00 It’s very competitive pricing. FastetsVPN also offers 7-day money-back guarantee to customers. Customer support is present 24/7. There’s live chat support and email support. Conclusion FastestVPN has the top VPN features and competitive packages that earns it a strong position in the market. The only little drawback is the low number of servers, but the ones that are there work well. And the figure is only going to grow with time. The money-back guarantee should provide you with confidence in giving this VPN a try.
Why Successful Entrepreneurs Exercise Regularly February 5, 2019 bizadmin Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, and Tim Cook. Can you guess what they all have in common? If you guessed that they all launched multi-billion dollar companies, you’re correct. But we want to talk about something else that they all have in common. They all swear that regular exercise is an integral part of their success. In fact, in a recent blog post, Branson said: “I seriously doubt that I would have been as successful in my career (and happy in my personal life) if I hadn’t always placed importance on my health and fitness.” Science backs this idea too. Studies show that regular exercise can improve your mental health, your memory, your energy levels, and make you feel happier overall. They’re all attractive propositions, and they aren’t just limited to CEO’s – everybody can reap the benefits of regular exercise. So let’s take an in-depth look at how regular exercise can benefit entrepreneurs across the globe, how you can start building a daily exercise routine for yourself, and which exercises other successful entrepreneurs swear by. Shall we? Exercise Increases Your Energy Levels Trust us – exercise can be even better for increasing your energy levels than that giant cup of coffee you have every morning. Wait, how can that be true? Well, every time you workout your body releases endorphins, serotonin, and dopamine. They might sound fancy, but they’re usually known as “happiness hormones.” If you’ve ever completed an intense workout and felt fantastic, even though you’re exhausted, you know first-hand what those happiness hormones feel like when they’re rushing through your body. And it isn’t just happiness you’ll be feeling after you’ve been exercising – you’ll also feel energized and ready to complete more tasks in your day. It might sound surprising, but exercise increases your blood circulation and strengthens your heart muscle. This, in turn, makes it easier for your body to create energy – a win-win situation for you. So, if you regularly dedicate some time out of your week to workouts, your body will learn to naturally release more endorphins, faster, which will leave you with more energy to achieve more in your day. Exercising Increases Your Creativity and Concentration It turns out that those happiness hormones aren’t just great for increasing your energy levels – they’re also great for getting your creative juices flowing. Once you’ve finished your workout, you’ll be primed to tackle tasks which require creativity, and you’ll have the energy to follow them through to completion. But it isn’t just after a workout when you’ll notice a spike in creativity – you’ll likely notice that you’re much more focussed during your workouts too. One little trick which I’ve found helps to take advantage of the heightened focus that I feel during a workout is to bring a notebook with me on my workouts. This helps me in two ways: I can follow my planned exercises and jot down any details that I feel are important about how my body feels each day. I have a place to write down any new ideas that I come up with, or scribble down any new strategies that I come up with that could help me conquer the day ahead. Of course, a notebook isn’t a requirement – I could take my phone with me to the exercise equipment. That is if I didn’t get distracted so easily. Honestly, I’ve found that bringing my phone with me to fiddle with during the breaks between my exercises is such a productivity killer. If I take my phone with me I find that my workouts take longer, are less intense, and I’m even less likely to complete everything that I wanted to achieve. None of that is ideal. Regardless, you’ll experience heightened focus when you workout – make sure you take advantage of it. Exercise Is Great for Mental Health Entrepreneurship can be stressful, as can any profession. The reality is: there will always be a few high-priority tasks that you’ll need to take care of on any given day. It can be easy to focus on the never-ending flow of work that you’ll need to complete. And, we’ve already spoken about regular exercise and the benefits that it can bring your physical health. But regular exercise can also work wonders for your mental health too – especially when it comes to dealing with stress. You’ll have an overwhelming sense of wellbeing after you’ve got your heart rate up. You’ll be able to use exercise as a detachment tactic, and you’ll be able to detach yourself from your daily worries and focus on something entirely different for a little while. Something that you can feel is working towards bettering yourself. And you’ll be able to take the energy that you’d typically spend worrying about how much work you have, or how well you need to perform, and focus it into improving your health for the future – both mentally and physically. You can take the energy that you’d generally spend worrying on the work that you need to complete, and focus it into improving your health – mentally and physically. Exercising in The Morning Getting up early to make sure I get my workout in eliminates one of the most significant problems that I faced in the past – feeling too tired at the end of the day to even go to the gym. I know, I know. It’s tough to wake up early. Are you waking up even earlier to get a workout? Unthinkable. But it’s like the old saying goes: “The early bird gets the worm.” I used to be a serial end-of-day exerciser, but I’ve never thought about looking back since I switched to morning workouts. There are a few reasons why I’ve loved the switch, and no, it’s not because I enjoy torturing myself. First of all, I find that morning workouts set an excellent tone for the day. I once saw a speech from Admiral William McRaven, who spoke about how making your bed is the most important task of your day. Sure, making your bed every morning might seem trivial, but it adds consistency to your routine, and it allows you to accomplish something right after you wake up. I see morning workouts the same way, except even more effective. Let me tell you, an hour workout will give you a much higher feeling of accomplishment than making your bed will. You’ll also need to consider that evening workouts, especially those who fall later than 8 p.m., could end up disrupting your sleep. And, perhaps most importantly, morning workouts tend to be much easier to stick to. If you’re anything like me, the vast majority of your social commitments and gatherings will occur in the evenings. Of course, that means you’ll need to choose between a meeting with the pull-up bar or your friends at your favorite dive bar. Don’t put yourself in that situation – just get your workout over and done with in the morning. Building an Exercise Routine It’s clear that incorporating regular exercise into your routine can benefit you both physically and mentally. But if you’ve never really been into exercise, or you’ve struggled to stick to a routine in the past, it can be difficult to picture yourself taking advantage of those benefits in the long-term. The research found that it only takes 66 days to integrate a health and fitness routine into your life. On the face of it, 66 days might seem like a long time, but let’s break that figure down. Sixty-six days is 18% of your year. So, if you start a brand new health and fitness routine at the start of January and stick at it, you’ll have integrated it into your life at the beginning of March. Imagine how the rest of your year would go if you’ve already made such a positive impact so early on. When you look at it from that perspective, 66 days seems like nothing. But, as with most things in life, the best way to set yourself up for success to plan. Let’s take a look at how you can build an exercise routine which works for you. Set Your Goals Your first step to building an exercise routine that you can stick to is to come up with a goal that you want to achieve. Maybe it’s dropping a few pounds, gaining some muscle, or getting fitter for a sport. Whatever it is – make sure you write it down and stick to it. Your goal will be your north star – it’ll be the thing that you turn to when you’re searching for motivation. Choose Your Workout Times An essential part of creating an exercise routine that you can follow consistently is setting aside the times of day when you want to hit the gym. Find gaps in your schedule which you can dedicate to working out, and try your best to stick to them. And remember to listen to your body. If you’re not feeling well, or you’re tired, maybe it isn’t a good idea to do your full workout. It is vital that you still show up – an incomplete workout is much better than no exercise at all. Choose Exercises Which Match Your Goals Once you’ve set aside the goals that you want to achieve and the times when you’re going to work towards them, you’ll need to figure how you’re going to meet them. There are plenty of free resources available which can provide you with workout tips and tricks depending on your goals. I like watching YouTube videos whenever I’m looking for new exercises (because videos help me to understand the mechanics of the exercise better) or some motivation. If you’re interested, here are a few of my favorite health & fitness channels: bodybuilding.com OFFICIALTHENX Running Wild The Body Coach Of course, these are just my suggestions – feel free to take a look and find ones which you love. There’s plenty of choices out there. Don’t Be Afraid to Have Fun The last thing you want when you’re exercising is to feel bored. That’ll sap your motivation, and hamper your progress. If you feel like you aren’t enjoying your workouts, try to switch up the exercises. You can also try working out with a friend, going to a fitness class, or joining a sports team. There are a lot of options available, so try tinkering with your routine to find what works for you. How Successful Entrepreneurs Exercise We’ve already covered the benefits of exercise, and we’ve pointed you in the right direction for when you want to create your exercise schedule. Now, let’s take a look at the exercise routines of some of the most successful entrepreneurs on the planet. Tony Robbins Award-winning author and entrepreneur Tony Robbins spends just 15 minutes per day on his workouts. But what they lack in length, they certainly make up for in intensity. Here’s what he once said when he was introducing his workout routine to somebody: “You should feel like you’re about to die, but you’re not.” Yikes. It’s a tough workout, and it’s not recommended for everybody, but Robbins swears that it’s an integral part of his success. Richard Branson English entrepreneur Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group, incorporates his exercise into his morning routine. Branson mostly partakes in exercises which increase cardiovascular endurance, like tennis and kitesurfing, and focuses on “having fun.” And, it’s important to note that he always tries to follow up his workout with a healthy breakfast – something which we believe is integral to a productive morning routine. Mark Zuckerberg Facebook’s CEO is a firm believer of the benefits of exercise in entrepreneurship. He once said: “Doing anything well requires energy, and you just have a lot more energy when you’re fit.” He tries to get in at least three workouts per week and usually opts for running sessions with his dog, Beast. Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey is another entrepreneur who swears by exercise because she wants to “feel alive.” Her rule is that she tries to do something every day which helps her to feel active – this commonly translates into yoga sessions and trying to hit 10,000 step count. She’s such a workout aficionado; she does interviews while on the treadmill: Now It’s Your Turn When it comes to exercise, the key is to find out what works best for your body and your schedule and forming a habit around it. If you’re going to build your workout routine after reading this post, make sure that you do your best to stick at it. Remember, 66 days is the magic number. And if you’re struggling with motivation, think back to your goals, consider taking classes, working out with friends, or even hiring a personal trainer to help you along. I’ll leave you with this quote from successful entrepreneur Josh Steimle: “If I were to stop exercising because I felt that being a good business owner was a higher priority, then ironically I would end up a worse business owner than I was when it was a lower priority.” So, now it’s over to you. Do you have any questions? Any exercise tips for other entrepreneurs? Let me know in the comments section below – I read them all. Andrew Roach Andrew Roach is a Content Marketer at Oberlo. He is passionate about e-commerce and creating insightful content to help entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses. You can connect with Andrew here.
Breakout Games for Education and Jigsaw Puzzles February 1, 2019 bizadmin The simplicity jigsaw puzzles are deceitful. As the concept is exceptionally straightforward – discover the pieces and connect them – there’s an unexpected degree of mental activity needed to handle the required process to accomplish a puzzle. Psychological research has identified numerous thoughts which are required to attempt what is an intricate procedure for identifying shapes and pictures and relating these to a general pattern. More to the point, solving jigsaw puzzles is a superb exercise for that brain and may have therapeutic benefits. These benefits include: Problem-solving Skills. Resolving the shapes and colored patterns that comprise the general pictures, such as the revolving from the pieces, pertains to the type of organic problem-solving evolution has outfitted us to cope with on the subconscious level. Our ancestors trusted the opportunity to recognize shapes and patterns in the world around them and place possible predators and hazards like an answer to survival. Finishing a jigsaw puzzle taps to the same fundamental processes, however in a relaxed and controlled atmosphere. Check out our Breakout games for education and many other puzzles by visiting our website. Enhances Self Evaluation. Attempting to observe how pieces fit and re-assessing where they may go once they don’t provide is a great exercise in checking and re-evaluating choices. Each bit is only able to use to 1 place so there’s no compromising and buying and selling-off that can take devote a lot of other facets of modern existence. This forces the gamer to re-evaluate their decisions constantly and teaches persistence using the process because it is an essential part of the game. Improves Learning Abilities. The higher an individual plays jigsaw puzzles, the greater they reach recognizing shape, form, and color and also the faster they become. This can be a fundamental learning structure that then passes directly into other facets of their lives. Essentially the brain is a muscle, and also the more it works, the more powerful it might be. Aids In Overall Perception and Understanding. Understanding how to assemble a general image from partial pieces when the only area of the image is within the place is a skill that translates directly into many regions of existence. Frequently, only some details about a scenario can be obtained or being able to make judgments and draw conclusions is a fundamental practice in coping effectively using the world around us. Fulfillment. Today’s lives can frequently appear a whirlwind of activity where we continuously change from one activity to another without seeming to attract breath. Finishing a jigsaw puzzle supplies a tonic for this hectic pace, where a period of quiet problem-solving ends using the satisfaction of seeing the completed puzzle. This reduces stress and offers a sense of well-being. Dementia Treatment. Dementia patients suffer from an illness in which the brain tissue is failing, and also the functions that live in individuals areas are lost. The suggestions above benefits add up to a good work out for that brain, resulting in the brain cells to operate hard. This kind of mental activity slows lower the start of dementia by continuing to keep more areas of the brain active for extended. Want to know more about Hidden Messages in Postcards? Visit our website today! This degree of cognitive complexity does much to describe why everybody is pleased to spend hrs at any given time focusing on jigsaw puzzles. What appears among the simplest of activities is an very interesting and therapeutic brain exercise with lots of hidden benefits. Playing physical puzzles or jigsaw puzzles on the internet is an advantageous activity for kids and adults alike.
200 Business Quotes That’ll Inspire You. January 28, 2019 bizadmin Best Business Quotes of All Time These business quotes are a gamechanger. Get ready for some inspiration and action-packed advice. 1. “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” — Socrates, father of Western philosophy (Click to tweet) 2. “Always deliver more than expected.” — Larry Page, co-founder of Google (Click to tweet) 3. “Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.” — Ben Silbermann, founder of Pinterest (Click to tweet) 4.“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (Click to tweet) 5. “Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.” — Angelo Sotira, co-founder of deviantART (Click to tweet) 6.“Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.” — Anthony Volodkin, founder of Hype Machine (Click to tweet) 7. “What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.” — Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy’s (Click to tweet) 8. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” — Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon (Click to tweet) 9. “If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” — Zig Ziglar, author, salesman, and motivational speaker (Click to tweet) 10. “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” — Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn (Click to tweet) 11. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” — Thomas Edison, co-founder of General Electric (Click to tweet) 12. “The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.” — Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week (Click to tweet) Tim Ferriss business quotes are always so on point. 13. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” — Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (Click to tweet) 14. “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.” — Steve Jobs, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc. (Click to tweet) 15. “Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.” — Mark Cuban, AXS TV Chairman and entrepreneur (Click to tweet) 16. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft (Click to tweet) Bill Gates business quotes are so full of wisdom. 17. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” — Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook (Click to tweet) 18. “If you define yourself by how you differ from the competition, you’re probably in trouble.” — Omar Hamoui, co-founder of AdMob (Click to tweet) 19. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” — Lisa Stone, co-founder and CEO of BlogHer (Click to tweet) 20. “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” — Josh James, CEO and co-founder of Omniture (Click to tweet) Are these business quotes inspiring you yet? No? Then keep reading…! 21. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” — Scott Belsky, co-founder of Behance (Click to tweet) 22. “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” — Golda Meir, fourth Prime Minister of Israel (Click to tweet) 23. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.” — Jason Fried, 37signals founder and co-author of Rework (Click to tweet) 24. “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.” — Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder (Click to tweet) 25. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” — Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos (Click to tweet) 26. “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.” — Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA (Click to tweet) 27. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” — Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow (Click to tweet) 28. “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” — Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga (Click to tweet) 29. “Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.” — Tim O’Reilly, founder, and CEO of O’Reilly Media (Click to tweet) 30. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” — Chris Dixon, an investor at Andreessen Horowitz (Click to tweet) Business quotes like this really hit home. 31. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs, co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. (Click to tweet) 32. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller, American author, political activist and lecturer (Click to tweet) 33. “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.” — Paul Rand, Graphic Designer (Click to tweet) 34. “Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.” — Lakshmi Mittal, Chairman & CEO of ArcelorMittal (Click to tweet) 35. “Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” — Jeffrey Zeldman, entrepreneur and web designer (Click to tweet) These inspirational business quotes have some pretty sound advice. 36. “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” — Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy (Click to tweet) 37. “If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.” — Ryan Freitas, co-founder of About.me (Click to tweet) 38. “Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” — Michael Arrington, founder and co-editor of TechCrunch (Click to tweet) 39. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” — Wayne Huizenga, prolific American business person, owner of Blockbuster Video and the Miami Dolphins. (Click to tweet) 40. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” — Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur and co-founder of Alltop (Click to tweet) 41. “An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” — David Karp, founder, and CEO of Tumblr (Click to tweet) 42. “Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.” — Kyle Bragger, founder of Forrst, and co-founder of Exposure (Click to tweet) 43. “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.” — Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow (Click to tweet) 44. “Anything that is measured and watched, improves.” — Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy (Click to tweet) 45. “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” — Garrett Camp, founder of Expa, Uber, and StumbleUpon (Click to tweet) We’re going to be throwing in a couple more Tony Hsieh business quotes in here. 46. “Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.” — Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos (Click to tweet) 47. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” — Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter (Click to tweet) 48. “Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined and connected to one another. And, when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.” — Daniel Pink, author (Click to tweet) 49. “Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.” — Jason Calacanis, founder of LAUNCH Ticker (Click to tweet) 50. “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.” — Jason Cohen, founder of Smartbear Software (Click to tweet) Business quotes like this sure do push you towards taking action. 51. “No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the week.” — Spencer Fry, co-founder of CarbonMade (Click to tweet) 52. “You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.” — Peter Shankman, founder of HARO (Click to tweet) 53. “Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.” — Noah Everett, founder of Twitpic (Click to tweet) 54. “Data beats emotions.” — Sean Rad, founder of Tinder (Click to tweet) This next one is one of my favorite business quotes. 55. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” — Estee Lauder, founder of Estee Lauder Cosmetics (Click to tweet) 56. “I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.” — Jake Nickell, founder and CEO of Threadless (Click to tweet) 57. “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” — Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle (Click to tweet) 58. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” — Larry Page, co-founder of Google (Click to tweet) These business quotes are also great for small businesses. 59. “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” — Michael Dell, chairman, and CEO of Dell (Click to tweet) 60. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.” — Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company (Click to tweet) 61. “All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.” — Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn (Click to tweet) 62. “The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” — Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft (Click to tweet) 63. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” — Steve Case, co-founder of AOL (Click to tweet) 64. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” — Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor (Click to tweet) 65. “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.” — Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder (Click to tweet) 66. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.” — Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos (Click to tweet) These business quotes may be blunt but they’re pretty accurate. 67. “Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.” — Sara Blakely, founder of SPANX (Click to tweet) 68. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” — Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States (Click to tweet) 69. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” — Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures (Click to tweet) 70. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” — Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks (Click to tweet) These business quotes are on fire. Inspirational Quotes About Life Let’s continue our list with some of the top inspirational quotes about life that are out there. Every now and then, everyone’s in need to hear about the positive side of life, and the potential it has to offer. These inspirational quotes about life will help empower you to succeed. 71. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”– Charles R. Swindoll, author, educator, and radio preacher 72. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney, founder of the Disney Brother Studio and Disneyland 73. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” — Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 74. “When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’” — Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of Github 75. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown, American motivational speaker, author, and former politician 76. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” ― Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor 77. “You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream.” – C.S. Lewis, British writer There’s something heartwarming about these motivational quotes about life. 78. “Live each day as if your life had just begun.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German writer 79. “Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” ―Mary Anne Radmacher, author 80. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ―Maya Angelou, American poet, singer, and civil rights activist 81. “Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.” ― Roy T. Bennett, author 82. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” ― Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor 83. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”― George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright 84. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” — Charles Darwin, English naturalist, geologist and biologist 85. “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser, British statistician 86. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”– Michael Jordan, American former professional basketball player Inspirational Quotes About Success Success doesn’t happen overnight. You have to take each day as an opportunity to meet your potential and to improve. Here’s a list of our favorite inspirational quotes about success to get your day started. 87. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau, essayist, poet, and philosopher 88. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” — Tony Robbins, life and business strategist, and author 89. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis, English conductor for the London Symphony Orchestra 90. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” — Thomas J. Watson, 2nd President of IBM, political figure, and philanthropist 91. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II 92. “Today’s Accomplishments Were Yesterday’s Impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller, American motivational speaker 93. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier, author 94. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn, one of America’s foremost business philosophers 95. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell, US statesman and retired four-star General in the United States Army When you’re struggling, inspirational quotes like these can really make a difference. 96. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” — David Brinkley, newscaster for NBC and ABC 97. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather, American publisher and author 98. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist 99. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” – Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos 100. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” — Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder Well done — you’ve made it halfway through our list of the top 200 business quotes! 101. “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – G. K. Chesterton, English writer, poet, and philosopher 102. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”— Steve Jobs, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc. 103. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” — Conrad Hilton, Founder of the Hilton Hotels chain Motivational Quotes About Not Giving Up Never give up. Keep chasing your dreams. Life will be hard at times, and the strength lies in not giving up. Take a look at the best inspirational quotes about not giving up. 104. “If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” — Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the civil rights movement 105. “I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?” — Jill Konrath, speaker, author and thought leader 106. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb 107. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” — Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States 108. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor 109. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II Inspirational quotes like these do a great job at channelling some positive momentum. 110. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does — that makes you a winner right there.” — Venus Williams, American professional tennis player 111. “We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.” – Maya Angelou, American poet, singer, and civil rights activist 112. “Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, American fiction writer 113. “Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely on my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur, French biologist, microbiologist and chemist 114. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale, American radio speaker and author 115. “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.” ― Chuck Yeager, former United States Air Force officer 116. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”– Samuel Beckett, Irish avant-garde novelist and playwright 117. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” — Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Motivational Quotes About Working Hard Hard work helps to turn dreams into reality. These top motivational quotes about working hard will help you get the job done. 118. “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” — Caterina Fake, Flickr co-founder 119. “If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”— Pierre Omidyar, founder and chairman of Ebay 120. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” — Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and President of the United States 121. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho, Brazilian lyricist and novelist 122. “A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” — Colin Powell, US statesman and retired four-star General in the United States Army 123. “There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.” — Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan We hope these quotes are motivating you to work hard toward your goal. 124. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” — Pele, Brazilian retired professional footballer 125. “No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.” — Jonathan Sacks, British author and politician 126. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” — Harry Golden, American writer 127. “There is no substitute for hard work.” — Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor 128. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” — Babe Ruth, American professional baseball player Motivational Quotes About Challenges We all face challenges in life. They can either make you or break you. We’ve compiled a list of our favourite motivational quotes about challenges that will encourage you to keep going. 129. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”—John D. Rockefeller, American oil industry business magnate 130. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”— Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker 131. “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” — Arianna Huffington, president of The Huffington Post Media Group 132. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt, known as “First Lady of the World” for her human rights advocacy 133. “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! 134. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States 135. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine, author 136. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” — Michael Jordan, former professional basketball player These motivational quotes about challenges have some pretty sound advice. 137. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa, political leader, and philanthropist 138. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey, American educator, author, and businessman 139. “The Ultimate Measure Of A Man Is Not Where He Stands In Moments Of Comfort And Convenience, But Where He Stands At Times Of Challenge And Controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the civil rights movement 140. “Being Challenged In Life Is Inevitable, Being Defeated Is Optional.” — Roger Crawford, public speaker, author, and certified tennis professional 141. “Life’s Challenges Are Not Supposed To Paralyze You, They’re Supposed To Help You Discover Who You Are.” — Bernice Johnson Reagon, song leader, composer, and social activist 142. “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.” – Paulo Coelho, Brazilian lyricist and novelist 143. “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” — Ray Goforth, director of strategy and partnerships at Spredfast Motivational Quotes About Overcoming Failure There will be days when things don’t go as planned. You may feel defeated and let down. But that’s a part of life. It’s about how you deal with the failures in life that makes you who you are. Here’s a list of our favorite quotes about overcoming failure, that will motivate you to stay strong in the face of failure. 144. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville, American novelist 145. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” — Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group 146. “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.” — Mark Cuban, entrepreneur, owner of Landmark Theaters and Chairman of AXS TV 147. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” — Jeff Bezos, founder, and CEO of Amazon 148. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.” — Seth Godin, author, entrepreneur, and blogger 149. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” — Drew Houston, founder and CEO of Dropbox 150. “Failure Will Never Overtake Me If My Determination To Succeed Is Strong Enough.” – Og Mandino, American author 151. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair, real-estate developer 152. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield, American author, motivational speaker, corporate trainer, and entrepreneur Quotes like these on overcoming fear really give you an inspirational push. 153. “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor 154. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” — Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company 155. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes, American entrepreneur and publisher of Forbes magazine 156. “Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.” – J.K. Rowling, British novelist 157. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty—six times I’ve been trusted to take the game—winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan, former professional basketball player Funny Motivational Quotes to Cheer You Up Everyone has a bad day once in a while. These motivational quotes are guaranteed to inspire you and bring a smile to your face. 158. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar, American author 159. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.”— Lily Tomlin, American actress 160. “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” — Will Rogers, American actor 161. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States 162. “When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” – Sydney Harris, American journalist 163. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard, American salesman 164. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor 165. “You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Sam Levenson, American humorist 166. “Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway.“ – Robert Downey Jr., American actor 167. “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” – Dale Carnegie, American writer 168. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers, American actor Inspirational Movie Quotes Movies have a certain memorable aspect about them. They have a unique way of teaching us lessons that stay in our memory. Whether it’s by making us smile, or by moving us to tears, movies have a magic about them. Here are some of the best motivational quotes from movies. 169. ”Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.” – Rocky, Rocky Balboa 170. “Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” – Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness 171. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort, Wolf of the Wall Street 172. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” – Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 173. “Great men are not born great, they grow great.” – Vito Corleone, The Godfather 174. “Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.” – Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting 175. “Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.” – Alfred, Batman Begins 176. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 177. “After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are.” – Shrek, Shrek The Third 178. “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” – Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 179. “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” – Maximus, from Gladiator 180. “Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” – Alan Turing, The Imitation Game 181. “Every man dies, but not every man really lives.” – William Wallace, Braveheart 182. “Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail or worse yet, afraid we may succeed.” – Forrester, Finding Forrester 183. “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” – Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 184. “There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.” – Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything 185. “The accident is your training. Life is a choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you’d like to be.” – Socrates, from Peaceful Warrior 186. “In this lifetime, you don’t have to prove nothing to nobody, except yourself. And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen.” – Fortune, Rudy 187. It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great. – Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own 188. “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.” – Rafiki, The Lion King 189. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” – John Keating, Dead Poets Society 190. “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” – Eames, Inception 191. “Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter.” – John Nash, A Beautiful Mind Motivational Quotes About Work No matter what day of the week it is, this list of motivational quotes about work will help you get through the day. 192. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc. 193. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” —H. Jackson Brown Jr., American author 194. “The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.” — Richard Bach, American writer 195. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali, American professional boxer 196. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb, author 197. “Someday is not a day of the week.” — Janet Dailey, author 198. “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, and poet 199. “Make each day your masterpiece.” — John Wooden, American basketball player 200. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” — Aristotle, father of Western philosophy Okay, that’s a lot of business quotes! If you haven’t already, make sure to bookmark this page of business quotes now and return to it, to create better habits, every time you need a hit of inspiration or motivation. One other thing: Did you notice some of the recurring themes throughout these business quotes? 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Non-Religious Marriage Retreats January 27, 2019 bizadmin Freud postulated that people instinctively adopted certain drives in their lives, namely the drives for pleasure (Eros), sexuality (Libido) and dying (Thantos). For more information on marriage retreats near me, visit our website.The idea wants to know, the writer suggests, is the fact that another important drive exists within many of us and that’s the drive for relationship and recognition. Quite simply it is essential if we will achieve a subjective feeling of wellness that people relate in some manner to some spouse varieties, even if it’s only as validation in our existence. Indeed different color leaves, we can realize that any interruption to make contact with within the fundamental sense, is very important towards the mental outcome. Therefore if we accept the above mentioned, precisely what does this suggest for all of us as Psychotherapists and the skill of psychiatric therapy. As Transactional Analysts, we can observe that Eric Berne the founding father of Transactional Analysis, as soon as the 1950s, recognized the significance of relationships and recognition inside our lives. His early influence within this direction most likely originated from his first mentor and analyst – Paul Federn. Paul Federn came from the Object Relations School from the psychoanalytical movement and recognized the significance of the functional ‘other’ within the mental development of the individual. In ‘T.A. in Psychotherapy’ (1961) Berne shows that people have certain ‘hunger’ that determine their mental make-up. He shows that their ‘hunger’ and the quest for these to be satisfied are a biological necessity for people. The ‘hunger’ Berne spoken of were namely recognition hunger, stimulus hunger and the requirement for time structure in peoples’ lives. He continued to state when these ‘hunger’ weren’t met then your person would experience emotional difficulties inside their mental development. Quite simply, in a single sense, he is at part putting forward the concept that all people instinctively find and want relationships and recognition for emotional security. This is highly significant, and it has not, In my opinion, been emphasized enough. Our prime focus on the behavioral facets of Transactional Analysis within the late 1960s and 1970s by a few practitioners have possibly clouded the idea of Transactional Analysts working inside the ‘relationship.’ It’s important then, for all of us to understand that for Berne the requirement for recognition was, and it is, the central core of T.A. theory and exercise. Relationship therapy, or must I repeat the power of the relationship as well as putting that first before using techniques and models, is prevalent in most of the humanistic models from T.A. to Gestalt, Psychosynthesis, and Rogerian psychiatric therapy. Like a Transactional Analyst, I place the relationship between myself and also the client as my major consideration, and that doesn’t diminish me thinking also when it comes to ego states, structural analysis, games, and script. I think this model is a beautiful and stylish model for using effective psychiatric therapy. For relationship therapy, three major concepts have to be pointed out; those are the cornerstones for just about any relationship counselor. Richard Erskine talks of the requirement for attunement, inquiry, and participation because of the major prerequisites for just about any counselor working inside a relationship. “Inquiry is a continual concentrate a message orientated relationship based psychiatric therapy. It starts with the idea the counselor knows nothing concerning the client’s experience and for that reason must make an effort to comprehend the subjective concept of the client’s conduct and intrapsychic process” (Erskine 1991). The inquiry then is extremely about discovering. Somewhat you have to end up being the A Virtual Detective, the Inspector Poirot from the therapy process however in a sincere way, so the client doesn’t feel shamed or ‘missed.’ By using inquiry you’re honoring the client’s experience and historical past, you’re respecting this, and you’re sensitive enough to need to know fully about his tiniest hurts/anxieties and so as to you’ll be repairing in an exceedingly positive manner a few of the ways the customer continues to be missed in early childhood. Within this contact orientated inquiry, you can give a forum for self-validation for that client that is very important on the path to curing. This method, In my opinion, is equally as important, or even more important compared to content from the dialogue. Attunement is extremely about “stepping into your skin from the client,” it’s about the counselor finding yourself in touch as fully as you possibly can using the needs and feelings of your partner. As Erskine (1991) states, “The communication of attunement validates the client’s needs and lays the principles for repairing the failure of previous relationships.” D. Stern, in the book ‘The Interpersonal Realm of the Infant,’ also talks of affective attunement as being a prerequisite for effective therapy. A good example of attunement he gives could be thus: “A nine-month boy bangs his mind on the soft toy, initially in certain anger but progressively with pleasure, exuberance, and humor. He creates a stable rhythm; Mother falls into this rhythm and states ‘Kaaaaa-Bam, Kaaaaa-Bam, the ‘Bam’ falling around the stroke and also the ‘Kaaaaa’ riding using the preparatory upswing and also the suspenseful holding of his arm aloft before it falls”. For Stern, affective attunement is “the performance of behaviors that express the caliber of a sense of a shared affect condition, without imitating the precise behavioral expression from the inner condition.” So, like a counselor working inside the relationship, it’s for me, essential to attune towards the client, to stay in tune using the client, to harmonize using the client. Attunement is a two-way process; it’s mainly about knowing whenever possible from the other person’s sensations, needs, and feelings. It’s, just like inquiry, a feeling of really being using the client inside a fully present, contact manner. Attunement does not necessarily mean fusion, or from a confluent position using the client, this means the counselor can also be aware enough and sincere enough to honor the limitations between your client and even the counselor. For a reason that sense facilitating the customer to become, not just conscious of the relationship between themselves and also the counselor, but additionally aware that belongs to them personal limitations between themselves and yet another. Participation, just like inquiry and attunement is one of the counselor being fully present as well as in full connection with him. Attendance is extremely necessary for almost any relationship orientated therapy. It’s through participation that people validate and normalize the client’s experience. Quite simply we involve ourselves by using inquiry and attunement in the realm of the customer. It’s through participation using the client that people arrived to comprehend the very nature of the individual that we’re dealing with. It’s by involving ourselves inside the therapeutic procedure that our commitment is apparent for that client. It’s through participation the individual is honored and revered like themselves. It’s through participation the client will feel safe enough to talk about individuals hurts and traumatic moments. Inside an asking and attuned therapeutic relationship, the actual foundation for repairing the hurts of previous relationships is shown, the direction to recovery and cure is well in route. Participation, inquiry, and attunement are prerequisites for just about any relationship orientated therapy. I have faith that without these fundamental tenets we won’t be truly respecting, in almost any significant way, the one who has selected us to become their navigator within their journey for emotional health. Finally, it should be noted that when the therapeutic relation ship continues to be forged, it doesn’t imply that inquiry, attunement and participation stop, those are the intrinsic framework from the therapeutic relationship. To conclude the therapeutic relationship is essential for just about any real therapy to happen. That doesn’t mean however, the humanistic-existential psychotherapies for example Transactional Analysis, Gestalt and Psychosynthesis aren’t essential – they make up the core for that theory and exercise from the therapy domain. Indeed, as stated earlier, Transactional Analysis is really a fine model to follow along with. The concepts of T.A. both theoretically and practically happen to be vital for me personally in assisting me within my act as a counselor today. It’s an excellent model for comprehending the persons intrapsychic process and early traumas. In my opinion it provides the counselor and also the client a typical language and mutuality that is necessary to the therapeutic journey. Want to know more about non religious marriage retreats? Visit our website today for more information. I believe that Transactional Analysis belongs inside the context of the contractual relationship therapy. This, In my opinion, is precisely what Berne meant whenever a spoken of people requiring to fulfill their biological ‘hunger’ for recognition, stimulus, and structure. Certainly, it may be observed that inside the therapy relationship Inquiry, Attunement and Participation feed and fulfill the client’s mental hunger. I am certain that, had Berne been alive today, he’d accept the next quote from Michael Kalum’s book ‘Between the Counselor and also the Client’ “Now from the existential encounter between counselor and client, the client’s world exists. All the client’s significant past relationships, all of their most fundamental hopes and fears exist and therefore are centered on the counselor. When we can make it easy for these to notice their world visiting rest in us, and when we can exist, fully there, to get their awareness and react to it, the relationship cannot help but become therapeutic.”