Motivo Academy – The Psychology of Persuasion for Managers – Free Course June 2, 2021 bizadmin I was browsing through the internet today when I came across a very interesting topic that will help in my line of work and persuasion. See below for more information. We Help Good People Do Great Things COURSE CATEGORY Life Skills, Management Skills, Professional Skills, Sales Skills Duration: 45-minutes (On-demand Videos). Why we Made this Course Helping good people to do great things, we know that the most successful people we have worked with, have mastered the skill set of persuasion and influence. They are able to enjoy not only a more successful life but also a life with less stress and conflict. We believe that this skill set will help you to do great things too. By the end of this course, you will be able to effectively influence and persuade other people without manipulation or stress. This course includes not only the latest research into the psychology of persuasion and influence but the method that we have used and taught for over 20 years to leaders and professionals around the world. You will learn: The essential concepts of the psychology of influence and persuasion. Schemas and personal constructs. How the brain processes (and resists) a message. Using beliefs to achieve persuasion. Includes role-play demonstrations. Course Duration: 45 Minutes (On-Demand Videos) More about the Course On-Demand Our courses are designed as practical guides, but also as a deeply fascinating story of success to make happier and more productive leaders and teams around the world. Case Studies and Role Play Examples The techniques you will learn are backed up with case studies and role-play demonstrations as well as downloadable resources along the way. Proven Templates for Leaders Seeking Highly Productive and Motivated Teams In the courses, you will master the leadership frameworks that Russel Potter had used with global brands including H&M, Coach, Standard Chartered Bank, Elle Magazine, TV Stations over the past 20 years. Neuroscience, Psychology and Corporate Insights. Russel Potter shares priceless insights from his book “New Energized You” co-authored with Dr. Maite Balda, on the neuroscience and psychology of human energy and productivity. The book cites over 200 research papers and has interviews with world champion athletes. Many of the insights are included in the courses. Check out >>https://motivo-academy.com/course/free-psychology-course/ Russell Potter, an experienced consultant manager, is the man behind Motivo Academy, with the website at motivo-academy.com He can be reached at the number +1 315 636 4192. The Academy is the culmination of a 25-year journey that started in London, in the UK, and has taken Russell to South East Asia and finally to Tokyo where he currently resides. Add Notes You will notice that there is an option to “add notes.” This is a space they provide for you to keep track of the insights you make as you progress through the course and the notes are completely confidential. They have no access to the notes and they are private for your eyes only. If you have any problems accessing the course please reach out so that they can support you. e-Mail: info@motivo-academy.com. This Is How To Overcome Impostor Syndrome: 4 Secrets From Research January 17, 2020 bizadmin Barking Up The Wrong Tree Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller! To check it out, click here. This Is How To Overcome Impostor Syndrome: 4 Secrets From Research (Click here to read on the blog) Impostor Syndrome is like being a secret agent — in the most depressing way imaginable. No matter how hard you work, no matter how much you achieve, you still feel like a fraud. You still question your ability and you’re waiting to be exposed. More formally, it’s often referred to as “a failure to internalize success.” You attribute your accomplishments to luck or insane amounts of effort, but never talent or skill. Ask yourself these questions: [abc] From The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It: Do you chalk your success up to luck, timing or computer error? Do you believe “if I can do it, anybody can”? Do you agonize over the smallest flaws in your work? Are your crushed by even constructive criticism, seeing it as evidence of your ineptness? When you do succeed, do you secretly feel like you fooled them again? Do you worry that it’s a matter of time before you’re “found out”? If you’re nodding your head, you’re not alone. 70% of people have felt it at one time or another — with some experiencing it chronically. And some very big names have been afflicted with it: Albert Einstein: …the exaggerated esteem in which my lifework is held makes me very ill at ease. I feel compelled to think of myself as an involuntary swindler. Maya Angelou: I have written eleven books, but each time I think, “Uh-oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out.” I can only dream that I will one day reach their level of astounding fraudulence. Jeez, look how inferior my fraudulence is to theirs. I’m a fraud at being a fraud… Seriously, there’s a lesson here: these two make it abundantly clear that no amount of achievement is going to convince you. That approach won’t work. And much of the advice we get isn’t helpful either. Merely “telling yourself you’re good enough” has all the scientific rigor of a Hallmark Card. Self-affirmations are as likely to cure this as they’d cure baldness. We need real answers, not platitudes. [abc] Funny thing is there’s a whole pile of scientific research that addresses this issue. It’s called “self-efficacy.” The concept was coined by Albert Bandura. He’s widely considered the most influential living psychologist and one of the most cited of all time. If there was a Mount Rushmore for psychology, his face would be up there. Bandura’s book is Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control. Now I hate when people use phrases like “learning your own value” because while it sounds really nice, nobody explains how to actually do it. Time to roll up your sleeves, bubba. We’re gonna fix that. Let’s get to it… So What The Heck Is Self-Efficacy? It’s “perceived ability to succeed at a given task.” It’s a belief, not an objective measure of ability. But it’s a thermonuclear powered belief and has an eye-popping effect on your life, whether you know what it is or not. From Self-Efficacy: Perceived self-efficacy refers to beliefs in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments… People’s beliefs in their efficacy affect almost everything they do: how they think, motivate themselves, feel, and behave. It can even be more important than skill. No doubt, actual skills are critical. If you have self-efficacy but no real driving ability, I’m not getting in your Uber. But that said, if you don’t believe you can accomplish something, you probably won’t try. And even if you do try, when you meet resistance, you’ll give up. [abc] And the effects of self-efficacy beliefs have been found in a staggering number of diverse arenas: academic grades, weight management, social behavior, health habits, occupational performance, etc. From Self-Efficacy: Where performance determines outcome, efficacy beliefs account for most of the variance in expected outcomes. When differences in efficacy beliefs are controlled, the outcomes expected for given performances make little or no independent contribution to prediction of behavior. “Oh, so it’s self-esteem and confidence.” That’s not what I said. Don’t put words in my mouth… Um, actually, I just put words in your mouth. ANYWAY, point is, self-efficacy is distinct from self-esteem and confidence, otherwise I promise I’d be writing a post on self-esteem and confidence because explaining new words is hard when old ones work fine. Self-efficacy is your belief about your ability to accomplish a specific goal while self-esteem is a judgment of personal worth. My self-efficacy about my ability to eat ice cream might be high, but I don’t think that makes me a good person. And confidence is more generalized, while self-efficacy is task-specific. You can be a very confident person and still not have self-efficacy when it comes to performing an appendectomy. So how does this relate to impostor syndrome? Well, impostor syndrome is fundamentally a belief issue. You could be saying, “I don’t have impostor syndrome, I actually suck at this and my results confirm that.” Instead, you’re saying, “I’m aware my performance is solid but I don’t believe it’s due to talent.” [abc] Impostor syndrome is about your lack of belief in your skill at something. Having self-efficacy is a healthy amount of belief in your skill at something. If we increase the latter, we get rid of the former. We need to get you to believe that your ability — not luck or mere hard work — is the primary active ingredient in your success. (To learn more about how you can lead a successful life, check out my bestselling book here.) So how do we do boost self-efficacy? Bandura lays out 4 things that will do the job. They all have big, fancy academic-sounding names that make my spellchecker go heavy on the red underlining. We’re gonna translate them in to English-that-people-actually-speak because I don’t like migraines any more than you do. Let’s start with the one that is, in general, most powerful… 1) Enactive Mastery Experience When most people perform well they attribute it to skill on their part. (Maybe they are too inclined to attribute it to personal skill, but that’s a topic for a different, much more cynical post.) [abc] But if you’re dealing with impostor syndrome, this natural tendency to assume you’re a virtuoso is on the fritz. You do a great job and the default attribution bucket isn’t a skill — it’s luck, overwork or invisible elves that accomplished everything while you were napping. Many interpret enactive mastery experience as “keep working hard and you’ll see it’s your natural ability that’s causing the results.” If that was true, impostor syndrome wouldn’t exist. In fact, if you don’t actively change your default attributions, merely seeing yourself succeed isn’t going to fix impostor syndrome — it’s going to make it worse. From Self-Efficacy: …the impact of performance attainments on efficacy beliefs depends on what is made of those performances. The same level of performance success may raise, leave unaffected, or lower perceived self-efficacy depending on how various personal and situational contributors are interpreted and weighted (Bandura 1982a). So what do we have to do? You need to notice the system you use. Your process. Yes, you have one. No, I have not been spying on you. You probably take it for granted. Or it’s a blur as you anxiously drive yourself crazy due to deadlines or trying to meet insanely high standards. It’s probably habitual at this point and therefore often subconscious, like driving a car, but there are things you do each and every time that are producing these consistently good results. (And if you’re not consistently getting good results then you don’t have impostor syndrome, and I’m not getting in your Uber.) Everyone does not do these things you do in your process and that’s one of the reasons not everyone gets the results you do. [abc] Look at the system as separate from you. Like the recipe that makes a good cake. When you have a solid recipe, or good instructions, you feel in control. And what’s control? It’s the exact opposite of luck. When you recognize that you have a system, and the system is producing those results consistently, the depressing magical thinking of impostor syndrome fades. You have a new “why” that’s responsible for those solid results. What would your reaction be if I told you, “I took 10 weeks of tennis lessons and my tennis luck increased dramatically!” You’d laugh. Systems and training don’t increase luck. They increase skill. You’re just not noticing or acknowledging the system you use. (And if I was your system I’d be pissed that Mr. Luck and Ms. Overwork were undeservedly getting all the credit around here.) When work is a blur it’s easy to think you just got lucky. But I’m guessing you’ve noticed that people who are very confident about their abilities can often explain them to you. They’re aware of their system. Step outside yourself and notice what you do that gets the results. As the great Carl Jung once said: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” And what if that doesn’t convince you? Then set up an experiment. If you attribute your results to your lucky rabbit’s foot but you can repeatedly achieve the same results without it, then it’s hard to argue that dismembered mammal limbs are responsible for your success. From Self-Efficacy: When there is much subjectivity in judging the adequacy of one’s performances, as in social competency, an illusorily created low sense of efficacy endures despite repeated performance attainments that indicate personal capabilities (Newman & Goldfried, 1987). Dislodging a low sense of personal efficacy requires explicit, compelling feedback that forcefully disputes the preexisting disbelief in one’s capabilities. “Oh, I’m a fraud. I only do well because of hard work.” Fine. Set a time limit on how much effort you put in and see if the world comes crashing down. But before you start, think about your system and how you will do the things you always do in that shorter time frame. If you get 90% of your usual results in half the time, that’s not “hard work.” That’s talent. (To learn the two-word morning ritual that will make you happy all day, click here.) [abc] Okay, “enactive mastery blah bitty blah” is the method that works best in general. But what’s the method that works best for people who are unsure of themselves — like people with impostor syndrome? 2) Vicarious Experience In English: “Watching other talented people work.” If you’re reading this, you take your skills for granted. When you see that people who do similar things to you do well and a much larger group of people who do not do those things fail, you’ll realize your system works and there are other (inferior) methods that you’re choosing not to use. This means you have control. Control means not-luck. Problem is, when people with impostor syndrome look at others, they usually look at the wrong people. Often they compare themselves to people who have zero talent and have great difficulty finding their way out of the house every morning. Yeah, this makes you feel better but it doesn’t convince you you’re talented — it just means you’re not an idiot. Other times people with impostor syndrome compare themselves to the top 1% which acts as a fast-acting injection of depression concentrate and is utterly debilitating. Instead, think Goldilocks: you’re not looking to compare yourself to “too cold” or “too hot”, you’re looking for “just right.” Bandura says you’ll get the best results by observing others who are your peers or slightly better than you. [abc] From Self-Efficacy: Persons who are similar or slightly higher in ability provide the most informative comparative information for gauging one’s own capabilities (Festinger, 1954; Suls & Miller, 1977; Wood, 1989). How does this help? Plain and simple: it’s inspiring. “If they can do it, I can do it.” They have a system. It works. You have a system (if you take the time to notice it) and it works. You’ll probably see what they do is pretty similar to what you do. You both get good results and you’re peers. It’s not luck. You can even leverage vicarious experience without the vicarious part: it’s called “self-modeling.” Watch yourself working successfully. Look at good work that you’ve done. Smart emails you’ve sent. Great presentations or reports you’ve put together. Anything that resonates with you and makes you say, “Hey, this is impressive work — oh, and I’m the one who did it.” From Self-Efficacy: Self-modeling has remarkably wide applicability and often succeeds with inveterate self-doubters where other instructional, modeling, and incentive approaches fail (Dowrick, 1991; Meharg & Wolterdorf, 1990). Apparently, it is hard to beat observed personal attainment as a self-persuader of capability. Let your “best self” be your role model. (To learn how to deal with passive-aggressive people, click here.) We don’t just want to watch others work, we also want to get help from our friends. But the trick is getting the right kind of support that will kill your impostor syndrome and not increase it… 3) Social Persuasion Translation: support and encouragement. For people who have impostor syndrome, simply seeing results isn’t enough to boost belief in their ability… but seeing results and having others praise them does the trick. From Self-Efficacy: …skill transmission and success feedback alone achieved little with individuals beset with strong doubts about their capabilities. But skill transmission with social validation of personal efficacy produced large benefits. Tell your friends you’re going through a tough time and could use their support. There are three tips from the research you’ll want to keep in mind here: [abc] 1) If the positive feedback is insincere, you’ll see right through it thanks to the negative, skeptical lens of impostor syndrome. It has to be legit praise. 2) Support from experts is preferable. Praise from someone who doesn’t understand the arena is easily dismissed. 3) Positive feedback about your hard work is nice but them praising your ability is better. If you keep getting praised for your hard work, it’s easy to conclude that you don’t have talent. From Self-Efficacy: Evaluative feedback highlighting personal capabilities raises efficacy beliefs. Feedback that the children improved their capabilities through effort also enhances perceived efficacy, although not as much as being told that their progress shows they have ability for the activity. You don’t want white lies about your lightsaber abilities, you want sincere compliments. And you’d like them from Yoda. And it’s nice to hear you worked hard but it’s better to hear, “The Force is strong with this one.” (To learn the 4 harsh truths that will make you a better person, click here.) We’ve covered systems, models, and support. What’s left? Oh, feelings. You can never get away from the power of feelings, like it or not… 4) Emotional / Physiological States Your feelings and moods matter. And if you think they don’t matter then you’re in real trouble because they’re still influencing you and you’re not even noticing it. Not getting enough sleep, being hungry or just having a bad day can exacerbate impostor feelings, but unless you take the time to establish those are the underlying causes, you’re just going to feel awful and default to blaming yourself for being a fraud. [abc] From Self-Efficacy: Mood activates the subset of memories congruent with it through an associative mood network. Thus, a negative mood activates thoughts of past failings, whereas a positive mood activates thoughts of past accomplishments… According to Teasdale (1988), negative episodes and depressed mood activate a global view of oneself as inadequate and worthless rather than just activating unhappy memories. Here’s the problem: we are absolutely terrible at figuring out the true causes of our feelings. You think you know why you’re feeling something but it’s just inference. You think you’re cranky because of what your partner said but it’s actually because you’ve been running on five hours of sleep for the past three nights. But here’s the upside: you can now use your knowledge of this emotional blurriness to your advantage. Since the cause and meaning of feelings is all about interpretation, you can choose to interpret them differently. The court of emotions has an appeals process. If you can reframe the feelings into something transient or unrelated to the task at hand then your self-efficacy doesn’t plummet. From Self-Efficacy: …if the meaning of an affective state is altered by attributing it to a nonemotional or transient irrelevant source, the state does not affect evaluative judgment because it is considered uninformative for the judgment at hand. For example, interviewers who attribute their accelerated heart rate to having rushed up a set of stairs are less likely to wonder about their capabilities to manage the interview situation than interviewers who read their pounding heart as a sign of distress. Yes, you’re fidgety before the big meeting. But that physical feeling has to be interpreted. You don’t have to believe it’s nervousness because you’re a faker. It could be excitement or anticipation. Reframe your feelings and you can reframe impostor syndrome… and that can reframe your life. [abc] (To learn more about how to make friends as an adult, click here.) Okay, we’re all Bandura’d out. We covered a lot, time for the sum up — and we’ll also answer the looming question: even if you beat impostor syndrome today, how do you know that this newly found self-efficacy will last? Sum Up This is how to overcome impostor syndrome: Enactive mastery experience: Recognize your system. Tennis lessons don’t increase tennis luck. Vicarious experience: If they can do it, you can do it. Social persuasion: I, for one, happen to think The Force is very strong with you. So there. Emotional/physiological states: Reframe feelings. You’re not antsy because you want this blog post to end, you’re just so very very excited to be reading it. People are afraid that even if they develop self-efficacy they’ll backslide into impostor feelings. Don’t worry. If you really go out of your way to push hard on the 4 principles above, self-efficacy can become as stubbornly lodged in your brain as the feeling that you’re a fraud is now. I don’t know about you but I’m all for positive feelings that are irrationally resistant to change. [abc] From Self-Efficacy: They continue to adhere to the fictitiously instilled efficacy beliefs even after the persuasory basis for those beliefs has been thoroughly discredited. Efficacy beliefs created arbitrarily survive behavioral experiences that contradict them for some time (Cervone & Palmer, 1990). Lawrence (1988) provides suggestive evidence that efficacy beliefs created by fictitious success may gain strength through a cognitive self-persuasion process. The old saying is “fake it till you make it.” But with impostor syndrome, you’ve already made it. The race is over. You won. Now it’s time for you to finally enjoy it. ***And if you want a daily insight, quote or laugh, you should follow me on Instagram here.*** Email Extras Findings from around the internet… + Want to know which qualities made children more likely to earn more — or less — as adults? Click here. + Want to know what makes top performers different from most people? Click here. [abc] + Want to know if its better to tackle easy or hard tasks first? Click here. + Miss last week’s post? Here you go: New Neuroscience Reveals 5 Secrets That Will Make You Emotionally Intelligent. + Want to know what makes kids more likely to experience burnout? Click here. (And many thanks to the great Dan Pink for some of the above links.) + You read to the end of the email. I appreciate it. (If you skipped down here you *are* an impostor. Tsk-tsk.) Crackerjack time: What happens when you ask the users of Reddit which accounts are bots? For the very clever answer, click here. Thanks for reading! Eric PS: If a friend forwarded this to you, you can sign up to get the weekly email yourself here. [abc] 6 Principals of Connected Learning April 25, 2019 bizadmin The above is a sample infographic that I have taken from a site that is yet to complete. Well, here I will give my opinions to the above image. Not that I am a genius, but just an average student, in computers. To be honest, I have had my share of struggles academically in the varsity due to external pressures to excel and studied using the wrong methods; and that was speed reading instead of analysing. Now that I am more relaxed and almost mid-age, I suppose I am qualified to give my opinions and experiences learning from my home base again. On the top right, that is academically oriented, first of all, don’t panic and be overwhelmed by the extent of workload and tutorials to complete. Just stay calm, find your inner peace or pray and claim on Philippians 4:13 – I can do all things through God who strengthens me. Piaget’s self discovery learning is the best form of learning. It is better than going through a classmate who may sabotage you with ulterior motive, unless you approach a group of friends who are sincere to help you and discuss like having tuition. On the right side, Production Centered is easy. Just follow the instructions and be observant of how the company production line runs, whether you are working as a technician or not. Peer Supported is group learning of at least 2 persons or more. I shall skip Shared Purpose as I am not familiar with what that means academically unless you are studying as a couple, which I presume of having the same goals and motivating each other. After all, 2 heads are better than 1. Openly networked is another topic I shall skip here. But in my opinion, I guess it means networking with people better than you and tapping their brains by hiring smarter employees. Like Robert Kiyosaki said in his popular books, A students work for C students / bosses. And finally interests powered are your hobbies that take you to learn the steps at your own pace in your free time like using a Digital SLR camera, how to focus, etc. Likewise, blogging also takes time to learn the insides out of the WordPress features. 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? Things like: Work hard Belief in yourself Focusing on quality So, which of these business quotes stood out most to you? Comment below! Tom J Law Tom is a digital marketing strategy consultant and writer. His mission is to empower entrepreneurs and to help them achieve their goals. Rules for Capitalization in Titles of Articles December 31, 2018 bizadmin If you have a look at the title of this article you will see that some letters are capitalized and some are not. Although the capitalization of titles can sometimes depend on the particular style of a writer, institution or publication, there are some general rules to keep in mind. Style Guides The rules for capitalizing titles not only of articles, but also books, papers, speeches, etc, can vary according to a particular style guide, such as Associated Press Stylebook (AP), Chicago Manual of Style, and MLA style. This is known as title case. While you will find similarities between each guide, it’s important to pay attention to their differences. Style guide similarities: In all three styles, always capitalize the first and last word of any title. How to Land Your Dream Job In all three styles, capitalize nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Visiting Beautiful Ruins (noun) As She Ran Away (pronoun) The Importance of Learning Fast (verb) The Poky Little Puppy (adjective) She Quietly Waits (adverb) In all three styles, do not capitalize articles, prepositions, or coordinating conjunctions. To Catch a Thief (article) One Year in Paris (preposition) Magic and Daybreak (coordinating conjunction) Style guide differences: In the AP Stylebook, all words with three letters or less are lowercased. However, if any of those words are verbs (is, are, was, be), they are to be capitalized. In the Chicago Manual of Style, all prepositions are lowercased, even the lengthier ones (between, among, throughout). In MLA style, words with three letters or less are always lowercased. So, which one should you choose? Well, it all depends if a certain style is required by your teacher, course, or subject/field. For example, MLA style is commonly used in the liberal arts or humanities. AP style is popularly used in journalism, Chicago is often used in business. A suggestion is to choose one style, or check to see what style is required by your teacher or editor, and stick to it. The General Rules for Title Case As we can see, there are some exceptions to the general rules for title case set forth by each style guide, but they mostly follow a similar pattern. We know to capitalize the first, last, and important words in a title. Important words include nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, and more. So, generally, these parts of speech are capitalized in titles: Nouns – man, bus, book Adjectives – angry, lovely, small Verbs – run, eat, sleep Adverbs – slowly, quickly, quietly Pronouns – he, she, it Subordinating conjunctions – as, because, that “Short” words, those with less than five letters, are lowercase in titles, unless they are the first or last words. Generally, we do not capitalize: Articles – a, an, the Coordinating Conjunctions (fewer than five letters) – and, but, or, for, nor, etc. Prepositions (fewer than five letters) – on, at, to, from, by, etc. When in doubt and you do not have a reference guide in front of you, here is one general rule recommended by The U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual: “Capitalize all words in titles of publications and documents, except a, an, the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, or, and nor.” What About Sentence Case? Now that we know some of the ins and outs of title case, let’s take a look at sentence case. In sentence case, the title is written as if it is a sentence. This is considered a more casual style and is commonly used in newspapers and on the web. Only the first word has a capital letter: Budget wedding invitations Best technology blogs However, proper nouns within the title are also capitalized: Top 10 things to do in Paris Hiking at the Grand Canyon Whether you’re writing in title case or sentence case, every style guide is just a little bit different. You might discover that some publications are moving toward sentence case. There are a couple reasons why writers choose this over title case. First, one could argue that capitalized words slow down a reader’s ability to scan. A title written in sentence case could be perceived as having an uninterrupted flow. Next, some publications prefer this style simply because it’s more likely to preserve consistency. With sentence case, there’s no nitpicking over the capitalization of a three-letter preposition. You might notice an overall trend toward this style. Many heavy hitters in the publishing industry use sentence case, including The Boston Globe, LA Times, and USA Today. However, if you pick up a copy of The New York Times, you’ll see they stick with Title Case. Advanced Rules to Note One of the beautiful complexities of the English language is that, for every rule you learn, there’s probably an exception. Here are some advanced rules for title capitalization: Hyphenated Titles Let’s take a look at the Chicago Manual of Style’s guidelines: Capitalize the first element. Capitalize subsequent elements unless they are articles, prepositions, or coordinating conjunctions (and, but, for, or, nor). High-Quality Web Services First-Rate U.S. Lawyers Bed-and-Breakfast Options in Savannah Capitalize the second element in a hyphenated spelled-out number. Forty-Ninth Street Blues Do not capitalize the second element if the first element is a prefix that could not stand alone by itself (anti or pre). Anti-inflammatory Dieting Open Compounds An open compound comes to life when a modifying adjective is used in conjunction with a noun. This creates a new noun. Hopefully warning bells will signal in your mind, as nouns are almost always capitalized. Salad Dressing Recipes The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year The First Word Following a Colon Let’s take a look at both the Chicago and AP Style guidelines: Capitalize the first word after a colon. Feminine Poetry: Ten Women Writers from Around the World Capitalize the first word after a colon if it begins an independent clause. I know who you are: You are my friend Do not capitalize the first word after a colon if the clause cannot stand alone. I know who you are: nobody Prepositions That Belong to a Phrasal Verb Prepositions often find themselves on the ‘do not capitalize’ list. However, when a preposition becomes an important part of a phrasal verb, it does need to be capitalized. How to Back Up a Computer Turn Down the Heat to Save You Money Following the Rules If you are debating how to capitalize titles in research papers and articles, your professor or editor will most likely delegate a certain style. In that case, make sure you visit the handbook on that style guide’s website. There will be ample guidance and examples. Aside from that, there are a wealth of other resources and handy tools out there. As you craft your titles, pay careful attention not only to the type of word, but also the length and placement of each word. Furthermore, no matter your personal preference, make sure you write the exact titles of books, newspapers, journals, etc. as they are written on the original document (even if they do not follow common capitalization rules).
This Is How To Overcome Impostor Syndrome: 4 Secrets From Research January 17, 2020 bizadmin Barking Up The Wrong Tree Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller! To check it out, click here. This Is How To Overcome Impostor Syndrome: 4 Secrets From Research (Click here to read on the blog) Impostor Syndrome is like being a secret agent — in the most depressing way imaginable. No matter how hard you work, no matter how much you achieve, you still feel like a fraud. You still question your ability and you’re waiting to be exposed. More formally, it’s often referred to as “a failure to internalize success.” You attribute your accomplishments to luck or insane amounts of effort, but never talent or skill. Ask yourself these questions: [abc] From The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It: Do you chalk your success up to luck, timing or computer error? Do you believe “if I can do it, anybody can”? Do you agonize over the smallest flaws in your work? Are your crushed by even constructive criticism, seeing it as evidence of your ineptness? When you do succeed, do you secretly feel like you fooled them again? Do you worry that it’s a matter of time before you’re “found out”? If you’re nodding your head, you’re not alone. 70% of people have felt it at one time or another — with some experiencing it chronically. And some very big names have been afflicted with it: Albert Einstein: …the exaggerated esteem in which my lifework is held makes me very ill at ease. I feel compelled to think of myself as an involuntary swindler. Maya Angelou: I have written eleven books, but each time I think, “Uh-oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out.” I can only dream that I will one day reach their level of astounding fraudulence. Jeez, look how inferior my fraudulence is to theirs. I’m a fraud at being a fraud… Seriously, there’s a lesson here: these two make it abundantly clear that no amount of achievement is going to convince you. That approach won’t work. And much of the advice we get isn’t helpful either. Merely “telling yourself you’re good enough” has all the scientific rigor of a Hallmark Card. Self-affirmations are as likely to cure this as they’d cure baldness. We need real answers, not platitudes. [abc] Funny thing is there’s a whole pile of scientific research that addresses this issue. It’s called “self-efficacy.” The concept was coined by Albert Bandura. He’s widely considered the most influential living psychologist and one of the most cited of all time. If there was a Mount Rushmore for psychology, his face would be up there. Bandura’s book is Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control. Now I hate when people use phrases like “learning your own value” because while it sounds really nice, nobody explains how to actually do it. Time to roll up your sleeves, bubba. We’re gonna fix that. Let’s get to it… So What The Heck Is Self-Efficacy? It’s “perceived ability to succeed at a given task.” It’s a belief, not an objective measure of ability. But it’s a thermonuclear powered belief and has an eye-popping effect on your life, whether you know what it is or not. From Self-Efficacy: Perceived self-efficacy refers to beliefs in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments… People’s beliefs in their efficacy affect almost everything they do: how they think, motivate themselves, feel, and behave. It can even be more important than skill. No doubt, actual skills are critical. If you have self-efficacy but no real driving ability, I’m not getting in your Uber. But that said, if you don’t believe you can accomplish something, you probably won’t try. And even if you do try, when you meet resistance, you’ll give up. [abc] And the effects of self-efficacy beliefs have been found in a staggering number of diverse arenas: academic grades, weight management, social behavior, health habits, occupational performance, etc. From Self-Efficacy: Where performance determines outcome, efficacy beliefs account for most of the variance in expected outcomes. When differences in efficacy beliefs are controlled, the outcomes expected for given performances make little or no independent contribution to prediction of behavior. “Oh, so it’s self-esteem and confidence.” That’s not what I said. Don’t put words in my mouth… Um, actually, I just put words in your mouth. ANYWAY, point is, self-efficacy is distinct from self-esteem and confidence, otherwise I promise I’d be writing a post on self-esteem and confidence because explaining new words is hard when old ones work fine. Self-efficacy is your belief about your ability to accomplish a specific goal while self-esteem is a judgment of personal worth. My self-efficacy about my ability to eat ice cream might be high, but I don’t think that makes me a good person. And confidence is more generalized, while self-efficacy is task-specific. You can be a very confident person and still not have self-efficacy when it comes to performing an appendectomy. So how does this relate to impostor syndrome? Well, impostor syndrome is fundamentally a belief issue. You could be saying, “I don’t have impostor syndrome, I actually suck at this and my results confirm that.” Instead, you’re saying, “I’m aware my performance is solid but I don’t believe it’s due to talent.” [abc] Impostor syndrome is about your lack of belief in your skill at something. Having self-efficacy is a healthy amount of belief in your skill at something. If we increase the latter, we get rid of the former. We need to get you to believe that your ability — not luck or mere hard work — is the primary active ingredient in your success. (To learn more about how you can lead a successful life, check out my bestselling book here.) So how do we do boost self-efficacy? Bandura lays out 4 things that will do the job. They all have big, fancy academic-sounding names that make my spellchecker go heavy on the red underlining. We’re gonna translate them in to English-that-people-actually-speak because I don’t like migraines any more than you do. Let’s start with the one that is, in general, most powerful… 1) Enactive Mastery Experience When most people perform well they attribute it to skill on their part. (Maybe they are too inclined to attribute it to personal skill, but that’s a topic for a different, much more cynical post.) [abc] But if you’re dealing with impostor syndrome, this natural tendency to assume you’re a virtuoso is on the fritz. You do a great job and the default attribution bucket isn’t a skill — it’s luck, overwork or invisible elves that accomplished everything while you were napping. Many interpret enactive mastery experience as “keep working hard and you’ll see it’s your natural ability that’s causing the results.” If that was true, impostor syndrome wouldn’t exist. In fact, if you don’t actively change your default attributions, merely seeing yourself succeed isn’t going to fix impostor syndrome — it’s going to make it worse. From Self-Efficacy: …the impact of performance attainments on efficacy beliefs depends on what is made of those performances. The same level of performance success may raise, leave unaffected, or lower perceived self-efficacy depending on how various personal and situational contributors are interpreted and weighted (Bandura 1982a). So what do we have to do? You need to notice the system you use. Your process. Yes, you have one. No, I have not been spying on you. You probably take it for granted. Or it’s a blur as you anxiously drive yourself crazy due to deadlines or trying to meet insanely high standards. It’s probably habitual at this point and therefore often subconscious, like driving a car, but there are things you do each and every time that are producing these consistently good results. (And if you’re not consistently getting good results then you don’t have impostor syndrome, and I’m not getting in your Uber.) Everyone does not do these things you do in your process and that’s one of the reasons not everyone gets the results you do. [abc] Look at the system as separate from you. Like the recipe that makes a good cake. When you have a solid recipe, or good instructions, you feel in control. And what’s control? It’s the exact opposite of luck. When you recognize that you have a system, and the system is producing those results consistently, the depressing magical thinking of impostor syndrome fades. You have a new “why” that’s responsible for those solid results. What would your reaction be if I told you, “I took 10 weeks of tennis lessons and my tennis luck increased dramatically!” You’d laugh. Systems and training don’t increase luck. They increase skill. You’re just not noticing or acknowledging the system you use. (And if I was your system I’d be pissed that Mr. Luck and Ms. Overwork were undeservedly getting all the credit around here.) When work is a blur it’s easy to think you just got lucky. But I’m guessing you’ve noticed that people who are very confident about their abilities can often explain them to you. They’re aware of their system. Step outside yourself and notice what you do that gets the results. As the great Carl Jung once said: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” And what if that doesn’t convince you? Then set up an experiment. If you attribute your results to your lucky rabbit’s foot but you can repeatedly achieve the same results without it, then it’s hard to argue that dismembered mammal limbs are responsible for your success. From Self-Efficacy: When there is much subjectivity in judging the adequacy of one’s performances, as in social competency, an illusorily created low sense of efficacy endures despite repeated performance attainments that indicate personal capabilities (Newman & Goldfried, 1987). Dislodging a low sense of personal efficacy requires explicit, compelling feedback that forcefully disputes the preexisting disbelief in one’s capabilities. “Oh, I’m a fraud. I only do well because of hard work.” Fine. Set a time limit on how much effort you put in and see if the world comes crashing down. But before you start, think about your system and how you will do the things you always do in that shorter time frame. If you get 90% of your usual results in half the time, that’s not “hard work.” That’s talent. (To learn the two-word morning ritual that will make you happy all day, click here.) [abc] Okay, “enactive mastery blah bitty blah” is the method that works best in general. But what’s the method that works best for people who are unsure of themselves — like people with impostor syndrome? 2) Vicarious Experience In English: “Watching other talented people work.” If you’re reading this, you take your skills for granted. When you see that people who do similar things to you do well and a much larger group of people who do not do those things fail, you’ll realize your system works and there are other (inferior) methods that you’re choosing not to use. This means you have control. Control means not-luck. Problem is, when people with impostor syndrome look at others, they usually look at the wrong people. Often they compare themselves to people who have zero talent and have great difficulty finding their way out of the house every morning. Yeah, this makes you feel better but it doesn’t convince you you’re talented — it just means you’re not an idiot. Other times people with impostor syndrome compare themselves to the top 1% which acts as a fast-acting injection of depression concentrate and is utterly debilitating. Instead, think Goldilocks: you’re not looking to compare yourself to “too cold” or “too hot”, you’re looking for “just right.” Bandura says you’ll get the best results by observing others who are your peers or slightly better than you. [abc] From Self-Efficacy: Persons who are similar or slightly higher in ability provide the most informative comparative information for gauging one’s own capabilities (Festinger, 1954; Suls & Miller, 1977; Wood, 1989). How does this help? Plain and simple: it’s inspiring. “If they can do it, I can do it.” They have a system. It works. You have a system (if you take the time to notice it) and it works. You’ll probably see what they do is pretty similar to what you do. You both get good results and you’re peers. It’s not luck. You can even leverage vicarious experience without the vicarious part: it’s called “self-modeling.” Watch yourself working successfully. Look at good work that you’ve done. Smart emails you’ve sent. Great presentations or reports you’ve put together. Anything that resonates with you and makes you say, “Hey, this is impressive work — oh, and I’m the one who did it.” From Self-Efficacy: Self-modeling has remarkably wide applicability and often succeeds with inveterate self-doubters where other instructional, modeling, and incentive approaches fail (Dowrick, 1991; Meharg & Wolterdorf, 1990). Apparently, it is hard to beat observed personal attainment as a self-persuader of capability. Let your “best self” be your role model. (To learn how to deal with passive-aggressive people, click here.) We don’t just want to watch others work, we also want to get help from our friends. But the trick is getting the right kind of support that will kill your impostor syndrome and not increase it… 3) Social Persuasion Translation: support and encouragement. For people who have impostor syndrome, simply seeing results isn’t enough to boost belief in their ability… but seeing results and having others praise them does the trick. From Self-Efficacy: …skill transmission and success feedback alone achieved little with individuals beset with strong doubts about their capabilities. But skill transmission with social validation of personal efficacy produced large benefits. Tell your friends you’re going through a tough time and could use their support. There are three tips from the research you’ll want to keep in mind here: [abc] 1) If the positive feedback is insincere, you’ll see right through it thanks to the negative, skeptical lens of impostor syndrome. It has to be legit praise. 2) Support from experts is preferable. Praise from someone who doesn’t understand the arena is easily dismissed. 3) Positive feedback about your hard work is nice but them praising your ability is better. If you keep getting praised for your hard work, it’s easy to conclude that you don’t have talent. From Self-Efficacy: Evaluative feedback highlighting personal capabilities raises efficacy beliefs. Feedback that the children improved their capabilities through effort also enhances perceived efficacy, although not as much as being told that their progress shows they have ability for the activity. You don’t want white lies about your lightsaber abilities, you want sincere compliments. And you’d like them from Yoda. And it’s nice to hear you worked hard but it’s better to hear, “The Force is strong with this one.” (To learn the 4 harsh truths that will make you a better person, click here.) We’ve covered systems, models, and support. What’s left? Oh, feelings. You can never get away from the power of feelings, like it or not… 4) Emotional / Physiological States Your feelings and moods matter. And if you think they don’t matter then you’re in real trouble because they’re still influencing you and you’re not even noticing it. Not getting enough sleep, being hungry or just having a bad day can exacerbate impostor feelings, but unless you take the time to establish those are the underlying causes, you’re just going to feel awful and default to blaming yourself for being a fraud. [abc] From Self-Efficacy: Mood activates the subset of memories congruent with it through an associative mood network. Thus, a negative mood activates thoughts of past failings, whereas a positive mood activates thoughts of past accomplishments… According to Teasdale (1988), negative episodes and depressed mood activate a global view of oneself as inadequate and worthless rather than just activating unhappy memories. Here’s the problem: we are absolutely terrible at figuring out the true causes of our feelings. You think you know why you’re feeling something but it’s just inference. You think you’re cranky because of what your partner said but it’s actually because you’ve been running on five hours of sleep for the past three nights. But here’s the upside: you can now use your knowledge of this emotional blurriness to your advantage. Since the cause and meaning of feelings is all about interpretation, you can choose to interpret them differently. The court of emotions has an appeals process. If you can reframe the feelings into something transient or unrelated to the task at hand then your self-efficacy doesn’t plummet. From Self-Efficacy: …if the meaning of an affective state is altered by attributing it to a nonemotional or transient irrelevant source, the state does not affect evaluative judgment because it is considered uninformative for the judgment at hand. For example, interviewers who attribute their accelerated heart rate to having rushed up a set of stairs are less likely to wonder about their capabilities to manage the interview situation than interviewers who read their pounding heart as a sign of distress. Yes, you’re fidgety before the big meeting. But that physical feeling has to be interpreted. You don’t have to believe it’s nervousness because you’re a faker. It could be excitement or anticipation. Reframe your feelings and you can reframe impostor syndrome… and that can reframe your life. [abc] (To learn more about how to make friends as an adult, click here.) Okay, we’re all Bandura’d out. We covered a lot, time for the sum up — and we’ll also answer the looming question: even if you beat impostor syndrome today, how do you know that this newly found self-efficacy will last? Sum Up This is how to overcome impostor syndrome: Enactive mastery experience: Recognize your system. Tennis lessons don’t increase tennis luck. Vicarious experience: If they can do it, you can do it. Social persuasion: I, for one, happen to think The Force is very strong with you. So there. Emotional/physiological states: Reframe feelings. You’re not antsy because you want this blog post to end, you’re just so very very excited to be reading it. People are afraid that even if they develop self-efficacy they’ll backslide into impostor feelings. Don’t worry. If you really go out of your way to push hard on the 4 principles above, self-efficacy can become as stubbornly lodged in your brain as the feeling that you’re a fraud is now. I don’t know about you but I’m all for positive feelings that are irrationally resistant to change. [abc] From Self-Efficacy: They continue to adhere to the fictitiously instilled efficacy beliefs even after the persuasory basis for those beliefs has been thoroughly discredited. Efficacy beliefs created arbitrarily survive behavioral experiences that contradict them for some time (Cervone & Palmer, 1990). Lawrence (1988) provides suggestive evidence that efficacy beliefs created by fictitious success may gain strength through a cognitive self-persuasion process. The old saying is “fake it till you make it.” But with impostor syndrome, you’ve already made it. The race is over. You won. Now it’s time for you to finally enjoy it. ***And if you want a daily insight, quote or laugh, you should follow me on Instagram here.*** Email Extras Findings from around the internet… + Want to know which qualities made children more likely to earn more — or less — as adults? Click here. + Want to know what makes top performers different from most people? Click here. [abc] + Want to know if its better to tackle easy or hard tasks first? Click here. + Miss last week’s post? Here you go: New Neuroscience Reveals 5 Secrets That Will Make You Emotionally Intelligent. + Want to know what makes kids more likely to experience burnout? Click here. (And many thanks to the great Dan Pink for some of the above links.) + You read to the end of the email. I appreciate it. (If you skipped down here you *are* an impostor. Tsk-tsk.) Crackerjack time: What happens when you ask the users of Reddit which accounts are bots? For the very clever answer, click here. Thanks for reading! Eric PS: If a friend forwarded this to you, you can sign up to get the weekly email yourself here. [abc]
6 Principals of Connected Learning April 25, 2019 bizadmin The above is a sample infographic that I have taken from a site that is yet to complete. Well, here I will give my opinions to the above image. Not that I am a genius, but just an average student, in computers. To be honest, I have had my share of struggles academically in the varsity due to external pressures to excel and studied using the wrong methods; and that was speed reading instead of analysing. Now that I am more relaxed and almost mid-age, I suppose I am qualified to give my opinions and experiences learning from my home base again. On the top right, that is academically oriented, first of all, don’t panic and be overwhelmed by the extent of workload and tutorials to complete. Just stay calm, find your inner peace or pray and claim on Philippians 4:13 – I can do all things through God who strengthens me. Piaget’s self discovery learning is the best form of learning. It is better than going through a classmate who may sabotage you with ulterior motive, unless you approach a group of friends who are sincere to help you and discuss like having tuition. On the right side, Production Centered is easy. Just follow the instructions and be observant of how the company production line runs, whether you are working as a technician or not. Peer Supported is group learning of at least 2 persons or more. I shall skip Shared Purpose as I am not familiar with what that means academically unless you are studying as a couple, which I presume of having the same goals and motivating each other. After all, 2 heads are better than 1. Openly networked is another topic I shall skip here. But in my opinion, I guess it means networking with people better than you and tapping their brains by hiring smarter employees. Like Robert Kiyosaki said in his popular books, A students work for C students / bosses. And finally interests powered are your hobbies that take you to learn the steps at your own pace in your free time like using a Digital SLR camera, how to focus, etc. Likewise, blogging also takes time to learn the insides out of the WordPress features.
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? Things like: Work hard Belief in yourself Focusing on quality So, which of these business quotes stood out most to you? Comment below! Tom J Law Tom is a digital marketing strategy consultant and writer. His mission is to empower entrepreneurs and to help them achieve their goals.
Rules for Capitalization in Titles of Articles December 31, 2018 bizadmin If you have a look at the title of this article you will see that some letters are capitalized and some are not. Although the capitalization of titles can sometimes depend on the particular style of a writer, institution or publication, there are some general rules to keep in mind. Style Guides The rules for capitalizing titles not only of articles, but also books, papers, speeches, etc, can vary according to a particular style guide, such as Associated Press Stylebook (AP), Chicago Manual of Style, and MLA style. This is known as title case. While you will find similarities between each guide, it’s important to pay attention to their differences. Style guide similarities: In all three styles, always capitalize the first and last word of any title. How to Land Your Dream Job In all three styles, capitalize nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Visiting Beautiful Ruins (noun) As She Ran Away (pronoun) The Importance of Learning Fast (verb) The Poky Little Puppy (adjective) She Quietly Waits (adverb) In all three styles, do not capitalize articles, prepositions, or coordinating conjunctions. To Catch a Thief (article) One Year in Paris (preposition) Magic and Daybreak (coordinating conjunction) Style guide differences: In the AP Stylebook, all words with three letters or less are lowercased. However, if any of those words are verbs (is, are, was, be), they are to be capitalized. In the Chicago Manual of Style, all prepositions are lowercased, even the lengthier ones (between, among, throughout). In MLA style, words with three letters or less are always lowercased. So, which one should you choose? Well, it all depends if a certain style is required by your teacher, course, or subject/field. For example, MLA style is commonly used in the liberal arts or humanities. AP style is popularly used in journalism, Chicago is often used in business. A suggestion is to choose one style, or check to see what style is required by your teacher or editor, and stick to it. The General Rules for Title Case As we can see, there are some exceptions to the general rules for title case set forth by each style guide, but they mostly follow a similar pattern. We know to capitalize the first, last, and important words in a title. Important words include nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, and more. So, generally, these parts of speech are capitalized in titles: Nouns – man, bus, book Adjectives – angry, lovely, small Verbs – run, eat, sleep Adverbs – slowly, quickly, quietly Pronouns – he, she, it Subordinating conjunctions – as, because, that “Short” words, those with less than five letters, are lowercase in titles, unless they are the first or last words. Generally, we do not capitalize: Articles – a, an, the Coordinating Conjunctions (fewer than five letters) – and, but, or, for, nor, etc. Prepositions (fewer than five letters) – on, at, to, from, by, etc. When in doubt and you do not have a reference guide in front of you, here is one general rule recommended by The U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual: “Capitalize all words in titles of publications and documents, except a, an, the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, or, and nor.” What About Sentence Case? Now that we know some of the ins and outs of title case, let’s take a look at sentence case. In sentence case, the title is written as if it is a sentence. This is considered a more casual style and is commonly used in newspapers and on the web. Only the first word has a capital letter: Budget wedding invitations Best technology blogs However, proper nouns within the title are also capitalized: Top 10 things to do in Paris Hiking at the Grand Canyon Whether you’re writing in title case or sentence case, every style guide is just a little bit different. You might discover that some publications are moving toward sentence case. There are a couple reasons why writers choose this over title case. First, one could argue that capitalized words slow down a reader’s ability to scan. A title written in sentence case could be perceived as having an uninterrupted flow. Next, some publications prefer this style simply because it’s more likely to preserve consistency. With sentence case, there’s no nitpicking over the capitalization of a three-letter preposition. You might notice an overall trend toward this style. Many heavy hitters in the publishing industry use sentence case, including The Boston Globe, LA Times, and USA Today. However, if you pick up a copy of The New York Times, you’ll see they stick with Title Case. Advanced Rules to Note One of the beautiful complexities of the English language is that, for every rule you learn, there’s probably an exception. Here are some advanced rules for title capitalization: Hyphenated Titles Let’s take a look at the Chicago Manual of Style’s guidelines: Capitalize the first element. Capitalize subsequent elements unless they are articles, prepositions, or coordinating conjunctions (and, but, for, or, nor). High-Quality Web Services First-Rate U.S. Lawyers Bed-and-Breakfast Options in Savannah Capitalize the second element in a hyphenated spelled-out number. Forty-Ninth Street Blues Do not capitalize the second element if the first element is a prefix that could not stand alone by itself (anti or pre). Anti-inflammatory Dieting Open Compounds An open compound comes to life when a modifying adjective is used in conjunction with a noun. This creates a new noun. Hopefully warning bells will signal in your mind, as nouns are almost always capitalized. Salad Dressing Recipes The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year The First Word Following a Colon Let’s take a look at both the Chicago and AP Style guidelines: Capitalize the first word after a colon. Feminine Poetry: Ten Women Writers from Around the World Capitalize the first word after a colon if it begins an independent clause. I know who you are: You are my friend Do not capitalize the first word after a colon if the clause cannot stand alone. I know who you are: nobody Prepositions That Belong to a Phrasal Verb Prepositions often find themselves on the ‘do not capitalize’ list. However, when a preposition becomes an important part of a phrasal verb, it does need to be capitalized. How to Back Up a Computer Turn Down the Heat to Save You Money Following the Rules If you are debating how to capitalize titles in research papers and articles, your professor or editor will most likely delegate a certain style. In that case, make sure you visit the handbook on that style guide’s website. There will be ample guidance and examples. Aside from that, there are a wealth of other resources and handy tools out there. As you craft your titles, pay careful attention not only to the type of word, but also the length and placement of each word. Furthermore, no matter your personal preference, make sure you write the exact titles of books, newspapers, journals, etc. as they are written on the original document (even if they do not follow common capitalization rules).