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900 Motivational Quotes for Online Business (2023)

1. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” —Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and President of the United States


2. “Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself.” ―Jason Fried


3. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” – Zig Ziglar


4. “I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton


5. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” —Helen Keller


6. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do” – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple


7. “Do the right thing as marketers to build trust.” — Jon Dick, VP Marketing, HubSpot


8. “Success is not a one-time random life event. Success is a habit.”


9. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader


10. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”


11. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” Bill Cosby, actor


12. “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”


13. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” —Lisa Stone, co-founder and CEO of BlogHer (Click to tweet)


14. “Power doesn’t come from content, power comes from the content that moves.” – Mark Schaefer


15. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”


16. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” —Bo Jackson


17. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”


18. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”


19. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne


20. “Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind.” — Walter Landor, Founder, Landor


21. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” —Colin R. Davis, conductor for the London Symphony Orchestra


22. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister


23. “The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.”


24. “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” —Zig Ziglar


25. “Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” —Isabel Allende


26. “Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.”― Ginni Rometty


27. “If you want to grow you have to do something different from the majority of people.”


28. “In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.”


29. “In business, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.”


30. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen Covey, educator, author, and businessman


31. “Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” —Mia Hamm


32. “Stick with it, even on the bad days.” – Vivienne Harr, founder of Make A Stand


33. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston


34. David Brinkley, newscaster for NBC and ABC.


35. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”


36. “SEO is like a resume, you polish it so you have your best foot forward.” – Matt Cutts


37. “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” —Will Rogers, performer


38. “Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation.” – Clayton Christensen, economist and Harvard professor


39. “Make a Customer, Not a sale.”


40. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.” –Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO


41. “Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things” – David Ogilvy


42. “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” — Jean-Francois Cope


43. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”


44. Thomas Edison: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”


45. “Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, fiction writer


46. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”


47. Integrating your search and social efforts brings better brand visibility and higher conversion rates. — Jim Yu


48. “Employees want to feel inspired by their leaders…hire individuals who will lead by example.” – Jody Kohner, EVP global enablement, Salesforce


49. “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” — Brandon Sanderson, Author


50. “Your website should be your calling card, or your business front door.” – James Schramko


51. “If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” –Mario Andretti, Legendary Race Car Driver


52. “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask: ‘compared to what?'” – Sydney Harris


53. “Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.” – Jim Rohn


54. The internet affords a level of relationship with consumers hitherto unfathomable. — Lucas Donat


55. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho


56. “Care about your customers more than about yourself, and you’ll do well.”


57. Content is the key, because it’s how a website creates an online experience. — Adam Audette


58. “Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.” – Timothy Ferriss


59. “Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki


60. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. — Mark Zuckerberg


61. You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing. — Guy Kawasaki


62. “Our head of social media is the customer.” — McDonald’s


63. Content builds relationships. Relationships are built on trust. Trust drives revenue. — Andrew Davis


64. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” —Og Mandino, author


65. “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” —Sonia Sotomayor


66. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather, become a man of value.” —Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist


67. Don’t build links. Build relationships. — Rand Fishkin


68. “Before you create any more ‘great content,’ figure out how you are going to market it first.” – Joe Pulizzi & Newt Barrett


69. “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” — Patrick Lencioni


70. “The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could.” — Unknown


71. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin


72. “Clients don’t care about the labor pains; they want to see the baby.” – Tim Williams


73. “Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss.” —S. O’Sade


74. “Why do we fall, sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.” —Alfred, Batman Begins


75. “Every man dies, but not every man really lives.” —William Wallace, Braveheart


76. “The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.”


77. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” —Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring


78. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.”


79. “If your business is not on the internet then your business will be out of business.”


80. “One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”


81. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn, motivational speaker


82. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”


83. “Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.”


84. “Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.” — Gary Vaynerchuk


85. “Work 9-to-5, spend a couple of hours with your family, 7 to 2 am is plenty of time to do damage.”


86. “You need to ask yourself " How much do you want" before you start your online business.”


87. “Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.” — James W. Frick


88. “Can’t forget you only get what you give.” – New Radicals


89. “Any time is a good time to start a company.” – Ron Conway, startup investor


90. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill, author


91. “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”


92. “Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.” –Tim Westergen, Pandora Founder


93. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” ―Maya Angelou


94. “Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.” – Tony Robbin


95. “Small opportunities are often beginning of great achievements.”


96. “Longevity is a fleeting moment that lasts forever.”


97. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” —Ruth Gordo


98. “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” —Michael Dell, chairman, and CEO of Dell (Click to tweet)


99. “Integrated marketing offers opportunities to break through to consumers in new markets.” — Betsy Holden, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Co.


100. “Even if you don’t have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt.” –Victoria Ransom, Wildfire Interactive Co-Founder


101. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller


102. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”


103. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney, co-founder of the Walt Disney Company


104. “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.”


105. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” –Lisa Stone, BlogHer Co-Founder and CEO


106. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein


107. Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household. — Gary Vaynerchuk


108. “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, Amazon Founder and CEO


109. “Give value. Give value. Give value. Then ask for business.” Gary Vaynerchuk


110. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: The fear of failure.”


111. Roy Ash: “An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.”


112. “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli


113. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." — Winston Churchill


114. “There is no finish line. There are only mile markers.”


115. “Don’t be evil” – Larry Page


116. “You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” —Sam Levenson, humorist


117. “Do the best you can. No one can do more than that.” ―John Wooden


118. “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Chinese proverb


119. Today it’s not about ‘get the traffic’ — it’s about ‘get the targeted and relevant traffic.’ — Adam Audette


120. Walt Disney: “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”


121. “Take risks. Failure is a stepping stone to success.”


122. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” – Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures


123. Warren Buffett: “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”


124. “You have to work on the business first before it works for you.”


125. “Take a risk and keep testing, because what works today won’t work tomorrow, but what worked yesterday may work again.” – Amrita Sahasrabudhe


126. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”


127. “You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.” Unknown


128. “Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.” —Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow (Click to tweet)


129. “Recruiting great marketers should be your number one priority.” — Kipp Bodnar, CMO, HubSpot


130. “Have the end in mind and every day make sure you are working towards it.” – Ryan Allis, CEO at Hive


131. “Stay self-funded as long as possible.” —Garrett Camp, founder of Expa, Uber, and StumbleUpon (Click to tweet)


132. “Almost overnight, the Internet’s gone from a technical wonder to a business must.” – Bill Schrader


133. “When it comes to content, the best marketers know that self-promotion is good!” — Kieran Flanagan, VP Marketing, HubSpot


134. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” —Augustine Og Mandino


135. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart


136. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.”


137. “Get big quietly so you don’t tip off potential competitors.” —Chris Dixon, investor at Andreessen Horowitz (Click to tweet)


138. “Google will know that you are hungry for sushi before you do.” – Ben Kunz


139. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney


140. “Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.” – Yulia Tymoshenko


141. “Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage.” —Unknown


142. The secret to getting results from your social networking is to act like a member, not a marketer. — Mari Smith


143. “Make every interaction count, even the small ones. They are all relevant.” Shep Hyken


144. “No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.” —Billie Jean King


145. Unknown: “Life’s too short to learn from your own mistakes. So learn from others”


146. “It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than five problems one way.” George Polya


147. “You don’t build a business, you build people, then people build the business.”


148. Incorporate easy email marketing strategies with your Facebook efforts to see bigger results (aka profits!). — Amy Porterfield


149. “Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.” – Henry Ford


150. “The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”


151. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass


152. “Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway.“ —Robert Downey Jr., actor


153. “A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is—it’s what consumers tell each other it is.” – Scott Cook


154. “Testing is the biggest no-brainer, and the killer of most stupid ideas.” – Avinash Kaushik


155. “I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation.” – Bobby Knight


156. Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well. — Ann Handley


157. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot


158. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures; learn from them and start again.” —Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group


159. “People's passion and desire for authenticity is strong.” —Constance Wu


160. “What is not started will never get finished.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer


161. “A big business starts small.”


162. There are tons of different factors that go into ranking well, but the biggest is high-quality content. — David Sinick


163. You can’t push your sales messages on your fans too often. — Andrea Vahl


164. “You don’t need to have a 100–person company to develop that idea.”


165. “What is quality content? Ultimately, the consumer decides.” – Joe Chernov


166. Walter Disney, founder of the Disney Brother Studio and Disneyland.


167. “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” —Sir Claus Moser, statistician


168. “Marketing is really just about sharing your passion.”


169. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.” —Larry Page, co-founder of Google (Click to tweet)


170. “The only one who can tell you “you can’t win” is you and you don’t have to listen.” —Jessica Ennis


171. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t -- you’re right.” –Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company Founder


172. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” Dale Carnegie


173. “The future of SEO is here: understanding and marketing to specific and defined audiences through search engines.” – Adam Audette


174. “Customer service is an opportunity to exceed your customer’s expectations.”


175. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray, businessman and investor


176. “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.” —Rafiki, The Lion King


177. If you want to continually grow your blog, you need to learn to blog on a consistent basis. — Neil Patel


178. “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” —Dale Carnegie, writer


179. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”


180. Your ultimate consumers are your users, not search engines. — Google


181. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon


182. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.” —Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon (Click to tweet)


183. “You don’t need to have a 100–person company to develop that idea.” – Larry Page, co-founder of Google


184. “The best marketing doesn't feel like marketing.” — Tom Fishburne, Founder & CEO, Marketoonist


185. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ―Maya Angelou, poet, singer, and civil rights activist


186. “You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” – Warren Buffett


187. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” —Herman Melville, novelist


188. “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” — Ayn Rand


189. “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”


190. “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.” – Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga


191. “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.”


192. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”


193. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand, novelist


194. The Backroads Bosslady: “Don’t risk more than you can afford to lose!”


195. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”


196. “The secret of success in any field is redefining what success means to you.” – RuPaul


197. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” — Oscar Wilde


198. “I am a storyteller. If I wanted to send a message, I would have written a sermon.” Philip Pullman


199. “If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.” ―Jim Rohn


200. “Anything that is measured and watched improves.” —Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy (Click to tweet)


201. “Happy employees lead to happy customers, which leads to more profits.” – Vaughn Aust, COO, Gemini


202. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs


203. “Stay true to yourself and your vision. Don’t let any one person’s opinion move you; listen, but be confident.”―Amanda Kahlow


204. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu, Chinese Taoist philosopher


205. “There is no substitute for hard work.” —Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor


206. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” Beverly Sills, opera singer


207. “Never stop testing and your advertising will never stop improving.” David Ogilvy


208. “Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them. Sometimes, it’s an ad.”


209. “Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.” – Simon Sinek, motivational speaker


210. “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey


211. Unknown: “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.”


212. “There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” – Ronald Reagan


213. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel


214. “Stop selling. Start helping.”


215. “Be a Doer, not just a Dreamer.”


216. Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb.


217. “Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.”


218. Socrates, a founder of western philosophy.


219. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney, co-founder of the Walt Disney Company


220. “Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they’ll come back. We have to be great every time or we’ll lose them.”


221. “An obstacle is often a stepping stone.”


222. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill


223. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”


224. Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first, brands need to do that. — Gary Vaynerchuk


225. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale, social reformer


226. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs … one step at a time.” —Joe Girard, salesman


227. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.” —Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft


228. “Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.”


229. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin


230. “Setting goal is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”


231. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein


232. “If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.” –Pierre Omidyar, eBay Founder and Chairman


233. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”


234. “You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.” —Peter Shankman, founder of HARO (Click to tweet)


235. “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large” – Jeff Bezos


236. “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” Warren Buffett


237. “A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in.”


238. “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” —Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets


239. It’s a good idea to understand how to work [Bing and Google] for maximum SEO and ranking benefit. — Debra Mastaler


240. What makes content engaging is relevancy. — Gail Goodman


241. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”


242. John A. Shedd: “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”


243. “Don’t optimize for conversions, optimize for revenue.” – Neil Patel


244. “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary.”


245. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder


246. “There will be fat years and there will be lean years, but it is going to rain.” Don Draper


247. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”


248. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” —Muhammad Ali, professional boxer


249. “Ignoring online marketing is like opening a business but not telling anyone.” – Anonymous


250. “Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.” –Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO


251. “You must not only aim right but draw the bow with all your might.”


252. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” — Unknown


253. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” —Coco Chanel


254. “I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.” —Barbara Elaine Smith


255. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve”. – Napoleon Hill, author


256. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese proverb


257. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” —Drew Houston, founder and CEO of Dropbox


258. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” – Peter F. Drucker, author


259. “Build a lifestyle around your brand, and the audience will follow.” Eva Chen


260. “Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!”


261. Content Marketing has become the catalyst that fuels search and social media activity. — Jim Yu


262. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin


263. “Help your team feel more connected to your company by incorporating the right digital technology tools into their workflow.”


264. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.” —Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow (Click to tweet)


265. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” —Jane Goodall


266. “Nobody reads advertising. People read what interests them, and sometimes it’s an ad.” Howard Gossage


267. Abu Bakr: “Knowledge without action is meaningless”


268. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton


269. “We need to stop interrupting what people are interested in and be what people are interested in.” — Craig Davis, Co-Founder, Sendle


270. “Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first.” – Wendy Piersall


271. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” ―Theodore Roosevelt


272. “Create content that reaches your audience’s audience.” – @MarketingProfs


273. “Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.” —Jason Calacanis, founder of LAUNCH Ticker (Click to tweet)


274. “Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” – Baltasa


275. Daniel Pink, motivational author.


276. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.”


277. “No great achiever—even those who made it seem easy—ever succeeded without hard work.” —Jonathan Sacks, author and politician


278. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”


279. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill


280. “The heart and soul of a company is creativity and innovation.”


281. “Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.” —Angelo Sotira, co-founder of deviantART (Click to tweet)


282. “Marketing is really just about sharing your passion.” — Michael Hyatt, NY Times Best Selling Author


283. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs


284. “I don’t build to have clients. I have clients in order to build.” – The Fountainhead


285. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill, author


286. “If you hear a voice within you saying ‘you are not a painter’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh


287. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president


288. “Know what your customer want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet.”


289. “It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.”


290. Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed. — Seth Godin


291. A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is — it is what consumers tell each other it is. — Scott Cook


292. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does—that makes you a winner right there.” —Venus Williams, professional tennis player


293. “To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.”


294. “Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” — Tom Lehrer


295. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”- Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister


296. “You cannot get anybody to do something if they’re not paying attention to you.” – Brian Carter


297. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison


298. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” – Jonathan Winters


299. “Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.” –Dale Carnegie, Author and Motivational Speaker


300. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston


301. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs


302. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie


303. “Make the customer the hero of your story.”


304. “Instead of interrupting, work on attracting.” — Dharmesh Shah, CTO & Co-Founder, HubSpot


305. “Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.” — Robert McKee, Author


306. “Every company’s greatest assets are its customers because without customers there is no company.”


307. “Don’t Build Links. Build Relationships.” – Rand Fishkin


308. “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” –Wayne Gretzy, Hockey Star


309. “If your content isn’t driving conversation, you’re doing it wrong.”


310. “A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better.”


311. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” —Babe Ruth, professional baseball player


312. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison


313. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” ―Arthur C. Clarke


314. New marketing is about the relationships, not the medium. — Ben Grossman


315. “You have to stand apart by offering high quality, relevant experiences to audiences that you truly understand.” – Adam Audette


316. Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle Corporation.


317. “To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.”


318. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” —Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off


319. “These days, people want to learn before they buy, be educated instead of pitched.” – Brian Clark


320. “When you serve the customer better, they always return on your investment.”


321. “Master the topic, the message, and the delivery.” — Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, Apple


322. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn


323. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein


324. “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.” —Paul Rand, graphic designer (Click to tweet)


325. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” —Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft (Click to tweet)


326. “Today it’s not about ‘get the traffic’ — it’s about ‘get the targeted and relevant traffic.’” – Adam Audette


327. “Discoverability equals sales in the digital world.” — Dev Chandan, Founder, Dev Chandan


328. “Does your content lead readers on a journey, or does it merely stuff them as leads into a pipeline? – Ann Handley


329. “If we did all the things we were capable of, we would astound ourselves” – Thomas Edison, inventor


330. “If you hear a voice within you saying ‘you are not a painter’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”


331. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”


332. “Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.” – Dennis Waitley


333. Charles Darwin, naturalist, geologist and biologist.


334. “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” – Babe Ruth


335. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”


336. “Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” – William George Jordan, writer/editor


337. “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)


338. “Any time is a good time to start a company.” –Ron Conway, Noted Startup Investor, SV Angel


339. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ―George Bernard Shaw, playwrighter


340. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” —Stephen Covey


341. “At its heart, copywriting is about understanding how other people feel and showing them alternatives to the life they lead.” Andy Maslen


342. “Content Marketing is a commitment, not a campaign.” – Jon Buscall


343. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. “ — Alexander Graham Bell


344. “I don’t know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” – Susan Butcher


345. “The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.” – Sergey Brin, co-founder, Google


346. “Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.”


347. “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.” – Stephen C. Hogan


348. “Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.” —Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos (Click to tweet)


349. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” —David Brinkley, newscaster


350. “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” —Maximus, Gladiator


351. “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” – Peter Drucker


352. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” – Mark Twain


353. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” –Guy Kawasaki, Alltop Co-Founder and Entrepreneur


354. “Great things in business are never done by one person.”


355. Lakshmi Mittal, chairman & CEO of ArcelorMittal


356. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein, physicist


357. Albert Einstein: “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”


358. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau


359. “Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.” Steve Jobs


360. “ Less is more. Keeping it simple takes time and effort.” — Jeff Bullas, CEO, Jeffbullas.com Pty Ltd.


361. “There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”


362. “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.” – Mooie


363. “I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just email with a view.” Elon Musk


364. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth, Major League Baseball Hall of Famer


365. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” ―W. P. Kinsella


366. Care about your customers more than about yourself, and you’ll do well. — Derek Sivers


367. “Always deliver more than expected.” —Larry Page, co-founder of Google (Click to tweet)


368. “Your customer doesn’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”


369. “Here is the simple but powerful rule… always give people more than they expect to get.” – Nelson Boswell


370. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” —Charles R. Swindoll, author, educator, and radio preacher


371. “Margin” is the difference between the...


372. “A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford


373. “I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.” Tommy Hilfiger


374. “Capital isn’t scarce. Vision is.”


375. “Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.” —Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting


376. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln


377. “Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.” –Nelson Mandela, South African Leader


378. “If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.” Mark Cuban


379. “Content marketing is the gap between what brands produce and what consumers actually want.” — Michael Brenner, CEO, Marketing Insider Group


380. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar


381. “I like to say it’s an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.”― Safra A. Catz


382. “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight


383. “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)


384. “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”


385. Mandy Hale: “There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”


386. “Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.” —Walt Disney


387. “It’s important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.” — Douglas Warner III, Former CEO, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co


388. “The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have purpose beyond profit.” Richard Branson


389. “Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.” — Unknown


390. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”


391. The brands that can connect with client in a real way will win. — Gary Vaynerchuk


392. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”– Sheryl Sandberg


393. “Just because you are the loudest, doesn't make you right.’ — Brian Halligan, CEO & Co-Founder, HubSpot


394. “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.” ―Mortimer J. Adler


395. “There are no working hours for leaders.”


396. Eleanor Roosevelt, known as "First Lady of the World" for her human rights advocacy.


397. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley


398. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group


399. “The next evolution of content marketing is not more content; it’s better distribution.” – Christopher Penn


400. “Lean in, speak out, have a voice in your organization, and never use the word, ‘sorry’.” ―Trish Bertuzzi


401. “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” —Sydney Harris, journalist


402. “I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.” Leo Burnett


403. “The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.” —David Hurley


404. “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” —Leymah Gbowee


405. “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffet


406. “If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.” —Pierre Omidyar, founder and chairman of eBay


407. The Internet makes money for you when you build something that is real and when it matters to people! — Darren Rowse


408. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi, football player


409. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” ―Abraham Lincoln


410. My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider. — Dave Naylor


411. “There are three objectives for content marketing: reach engagement conversion. Define key metrics for each.” – Michael Brenner


412. Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you. — Michael Arrington


413. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” —Thomas Edison, co-founder of General Electric (Click to tweet)


414. “A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.” —Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures (Click to tweet)


415. Marissa Mayer, president & CEO of Yahoo!


416. “Someday is not a day of the week.” —Janet Dailey, author


417. Blogging and traditional media work together. Twitter complements traditional media. — Evan Williams


418. “Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight, founder, Nike


419. “You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you’re asking for money!”


420. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer


421. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rodgers


422. “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” — Winnie the Pooh


423. Robert H. Schuller: “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”


424. “If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.”


425. “Everything started as nothing.” – Ben Weissenstein, entrepreneur


426. “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.” Aristotle


427. The objective is not to “make your links appear natural”; the objective is that your links are natural. — Matt Cutts


428. “The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing.” – Carrie Wilkerson, keynote speaker


429. “Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.” –Michael Dell, Dell Chairman and CEO


430. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”


431. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates


432. “If you want to be interesting, be interested.” David Ogilvy


433. Never forget social media is for reach but email is for revenue. — Bryan Eisenberg


434. “Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading. Buying and selling.”


435. “Make something people want” includes making a company that people want to work for.”


436. “Growth and comfort do not coexist.” ― Ginni Rometty


437. “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.”


438. “Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.”


439. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra


440. “Make something people want" includes making a company that people want to work for.”


441. “Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, Do what is great while it is small.”


442. “The only way to win at content marketing is for the reader to say ‘This was written specifically for me.”


443. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”


444. “Inspiration is the most important part of our digital strategy.” — Paull Young, Charitable GIving Lead, Facebook


445. “A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”


446. “To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.”


447. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen R. Covey


448. “Never give up. Great things take time.”


449. Content is not king, but a president elected by the votes of those whom it aims to rule. — Raheel Farooq


450. “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 too?”


451. “The tactics drive the strategy.”– Marc Benioff


452. “Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it” – Ryan Allis


453. “On average, 8 out of 10 people will read your headline copy, but only 2 out 10 will read the rest.”


454. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” —Michael Jordan


455. “Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.” ―David Ogilvy


456. “In order to succeed. We must first believe that we can.”


457. “Here is the simple but powerful rule… always give people more than they expect to get.”


458. “Luck is what you have leftover after you give 100%.” – Langston Coleman


459. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” – Frank Zappa


460. “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.”


461. “Data beats emotions.” —Sean Rad, founder of Tinder (Click to tweet)


462. “Hustle until you no longer need to introduce yourself.” – Anonymous


463. Content is fire, social media is gasoline. — Jay Baer


464. “These days, people want to learn before they buy, be educated instead of pitched.”


465. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”Steve Jobs


466. “Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.”


467. “Online and in-store experiences should work together to drive sales for the business.”


468. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill


469. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”—Lily Tomlin, actress


470. “The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.” ― Caterina Fake


471. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn


472. “Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.” —Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos (Click to tweet)


473. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” —Jennifer Lopez


474. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —Les Brown, motivational speaker


475. “Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.” — Walt Disney, Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company


476. “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” ―Cormac McCarthy


477. “Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.” ―Mary Anne Radmacher, author


478. “If you ain’t making waves, you ain’t kickin’ hard enough.” – Unknown


479. “Sometimes you have to experiment with a lot of ideas and see which one sticks. If you’re unsure, let the market decide.” – Dorie Clark


480. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey


481. “The only way around is through.” – Robert Frost


482. “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States


483. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” —Maya Angelou, poet, singer, and civil rights activist


484. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”


485. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” – Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos


486. “Don’t find customers for your products. Find products for your customers.” Seth Godin


487. “You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.”


488. “You can’t sell anything if you can’t tell anything.” — Beth Comstock, Former CMO & Vice Chair, GE


489. Unknown: “Remember why you started.”


490. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” – Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks


491. “The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.” ― Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr


492. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar


493. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”


494. “Projections are just bullshit. They’re just guesses.” –Jason Fried, Founder, 37Signals


495. “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” —Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button


496. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas Edison, entrepreneur and inventor


497. “Opportunities don't happen, you create them.” — Chris Grosser


498. “Customers may forget what you said but they’ll never forget how you made them feel.”


499. “The first one gets the oyster, the second gets the shell.” – Andrew Carnegie


500. “An obstacle is often a stepped stone.”


501. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.” — Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States


502. Authenticity, honesty, and personal voice underlie much of what’s successful on the Web. — Rick Levine


503. “Data beats opinions.” – Anonymous


504. “Be an amateur. Not everything you do has to be good, especially at first.”― Ann Handley


505. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”


506. “If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.”


507. “Work 9-to-5, spend a couple of hours with your family, 7 to 2am is plenty of time to do damage.” – Gary Vaynerchuk, chairman of VaynerX


508. “The only way to win at content marketing is for the reader to say ‘This was written specifically for me.’” – Jamie Turner


509. “Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook


510. “Make each day your masterpiece.” —John Wooden, basketball player


511. Unknown: “If you don’t have big dreams and goals, you’ll end up working for someone that does.”


512. “Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” – Wayne Huizenga, serial entrepreneur


513. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” –Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister


514. This is the era of less is more with SEO. — Adam Audette


515. “He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” — Confucius


516. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey


517. “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” – Oprah Winfrey


518. “The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.” –Malcolm Forbes


519. “Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.”


520. “If you can't yet do great things, do small things in a great way.” ―Napoleon Hill


521. “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”


522. Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone. — George Siemens


523. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”


524. “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” – William Durant


525. “Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow.” – Tony Robbins, motivational speaker and writer


526. “One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.”


527. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”


528. “Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.” – Seth Godin


529. Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field. — Penelope Trunk


530. “Don’t think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you’ll never do a thing.” – Bill Murray


531. “Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!“ – David Dweck


532. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” – Madeleine Albright


533. “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.”—Norman Vincent Peale


534. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.”


535. What you do after you create your content is what truly counts. — Gary Vaynerchuk


536. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder


537. “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”


538. Running with the herd is not always a great idea; be unique, and the links will come. — Debra Mastaler


539. “Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.” – Henry Ford


540. Empower your readers with social sharing buttons. — Mike Stelzner


541. “Building a brand means knowing your story and building and sharing that story”—Tamara McCleary


542. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” –Drew Houston, Dropbox Co-Founder and CEO


543. Drew Houston: “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”


544. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” —Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company (Click to tweet)


545. “The ultimate content strategy is listening.” – Marcus Sheridan


546. “Women must learn to play the game as men do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt


547. “My best advice to entrepreneurs is this: forget about making mistakes, just do it.”


548. “It’s important that leaders are consistent. You can change your mind, but change your mind against a consistent framework.”


549. “The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.” –Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO


550. “If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.” – Zig Ziglar, writer and salesman


551. “Remain a lifelong student. Don’t lose that curiosity.”


552. “The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” ―Epicurus


553. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”


554. “Good marketing makes the company look smart. Great marketing makes the customer feel smart.” — Joe Chernov, VP Marketing, Pendo.io


555. Content is King but engagement is Queen, and the lady rules the house! — Mari Smith


556. “We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.”


557. “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.”


558. “Go Big, or Go Home.” – Eliza Dushku, actress


559. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” —Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, political leader, and philanthropist


560. “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg


561. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”


562. “Business is the salt of life.”


563. “I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.” —Don Cheadle


564. “Don’t count the days, Make the days count.”


565. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus


566. “Good things happen to those who hustle.” – Anais Nin


567. “Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time.” — Elon Musk, Co-Founder & CEO, SpaceX


568. “After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are.” —Shrek, Shrek the Third


569. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw


570. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle, philosopher


571. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States


572. Word of mouth can be as important, if not more important, for neighborhood businesses as traditional advertising. — Ekaterina Walter


573. “See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” —Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle (Click to tweet)


574. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein, physicist


575. “A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.” – Confucius Kongzi


576. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” —Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company


577. “If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”


578. SEO gets the visitor to the door. It’s up to your site’s content to welcome and retain that visitor. — John I


579. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”


580. “Never Give up. Today is hard and tomorrow will be Worse, but the day after Tomorrow will be Sunshine.”


581. “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” – James Cash Penney, Founder of JCPenney


582. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” —Charles Darwin, naturalist, geologist and biologist


583. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”


584. “The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”


585. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle


586. Making money from blogging requires you to do only two things: drive a lot traffic, then maximize the income from that traffic. — John Chow


587. Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter.


588. “By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.”


589. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius


590. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”


591. “Authenticity, honesty, and personal voice underlie much of what’s successful on the Web.”


592. “The more I want to get something done ,the less I call it work.” —Richard Bach, writer


593. “Invest in yourself. When you do this, you press the fast-forward button on your success.” – John Lee Dumas


594. “As ever, the accountant in me saw the risk, the entrepreneur saw the possibility. So I split the difference and kept moving forward.”


595. “Marketing is telling the world you’re a rock star. Content marketing is showing the world you are one.” – Robert Rose


596. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States


597. “In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.” —Steve Case, co-founder of AOL (Click to tweet)


598. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”


599. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing … is not starting something.” —Seth Godin, author, entrepreneur, and blogger


600. “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”


601. “The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.” William Bernbach


602. Marian Wright Edelman: “Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.”


603. Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first. — Wendy Piersall


604. I don’t want to go viral, I want to set hearts on fire. — Coco J. Ginger


605. “The Golden Rule for Every Business is this: Put Yourself in your Customer’s Place.”


606. “I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.”


607. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”


608. The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing. — Tom Fishburne


609. “Trust your instincts.” –Estée Lauder, Founder, Estée Lauder


610. “Marketing’s job is never done. It’s about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.” – Beth Comstock


611. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” ―Vernon Sanders Law


612. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey, author and speaker


613. “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” — Albert Einstein


614. “The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.”


615. “If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right.” —Childish Gambino


616. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” —Aristotle, father of Western philosophy


617. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela


618. “The best marketing strategy ever: CARE.”


619. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”


620. A blog is only as interesting as the interest shown in others. — Lee Odden


621. “Content builds relationships. Relationship are built on trust. Trust drives revenue.”


622. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” —Scott Belsky, co-founder of Behance (Click to tweet)


623. “Content is fire, social media is gasoline.”


624. “I do not know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” – Susan Butcher, sled dog racer


625. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud, neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis


626. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” —Henry David Thoreau, essayist, poet, and philosopher


627. “If you take a risk and it doesn't go as planned, welcome to the club.” — Fran Hauser, Startup Investor, Advisor, & Author


628. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” —Mark Twain


629. “Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.” — Jean Luc Godard, Director, Writer, & Editor


630. “Marketing is storytelling.”


631. “Patience: This is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.”


632. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill


633. “A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start.”- Rand Fishkin, founder of Moz


634. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson


635. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Dhirubhai Ambani, founder, Reliance Industries


636. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair, real-estate developer


637. “Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” —Joshua J. Marine, author


638. “You will be defined not just by what you achieve, but by how you survive.”―Sheryl Sandberg


639. “Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.”―Meg Whitman


640. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” — Dalai Lama


641. “Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.”


642. “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ” ― Roseanne Barr


643. “If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.” – Gary Vaynerchuk, entrepreneur


644. “In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”


645. “Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins


646. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison, inventor


647. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” —Anaïs Nin


648. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius


649. “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”


650. “A winner never stops trying.”


651. “The road to success is always under construction.”


652. Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the civil rights movement.


653. “Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation.” — Milan Kundera, Writer & Playwright


654. “Be nice to geeks, you’ll probably end up working for one.” – Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft


655. “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” — Tony Robbins


656. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein


657. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” — Joe Girard


658. “A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”


659. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” —Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States (Click to tweet)


660. The paradox is the more info you give away, the more people will buy what you have to give… — Brian Clark


661. “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.” — Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO, Amazon


662. “Great customer service is a critical competitive advantage for a business.”


663. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” —Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur and co-founder of Alltop (Click to tweet)


664. It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than by doubling your traffic. — Jeff Eisenberg


665. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”


666. “Satisfaction is a rating. Loyalty is a brand.”


667. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus, explorer


668. “Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn


669. Jack Ma: “In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.”


670. “Don't use social media to impress people; use it to impact people.” — Dave Willis, Writer & Pastor


671. The future of SEO is here: understanding and marketing to specific and defined audiences through search engines. — Adam Audette


672. “Social media was designed to SHARE what you’re doing and who you are, not BE what you’re doing and be who you are.” — Richie Norton, Author


673. “Content is not king, but a president elected by the votes of those whom it aims to rule.” – Raheel Forooq


674. “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”


675. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson


676. “One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson


677. “Always give your best effort even when the odds are against you.”


678. “You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Lorimer


679. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” — William James


680. Stop selling. Start helping. — Zig Ziglar


681. “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 of Amazon


682. Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale. — Chris Brogan


683. “Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.” – Jimmy Spithill, yachtsman


684. “If you aren’t first, you’re last.” – Talladega Nights


685. “Don’t give up, the beginning is always the hardest.”


686. Oprah Winfrey: “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”


687. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” —Tina Fey


688. Marketing is really just about sharing your passion. — Michael Hyatt


689. “I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”


690. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi


691. The three essential elements of an effective SEO are effective communication, useful information and high quality backlinks. — SEO Refugee


692. “Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.” –Seth Godin, Author


693. The next time you hear a social media myth, question it. Ask for the proof, and ask out loud. — Dan Zarrella


694. “It's not what you sell that matters as much as how you sell it!” — Brian Halligan, CEO & Co-Founder, HubSpot


695. “Hakuna Matata… it means no worries!” – Lion King


696. “My best advice to entrepreneurs is this: forget about making mistakes, just do it.” – Ajaero Tony Martins


697. “Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.” —Kurt Vonnegut


698. “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” – Seth Godin


699. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”


700. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” —Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft


701. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” —Harry Golden, writer


702. Traditional marketing talks at people. Content marketing talks with them. — Doug Kessler


703. Create something people want to share. — John Jantsch


704. “No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!” ― T D Jakes


705. “The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.”


706. “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok, lawyer and educator


707. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” — Michael Jordan


708. Sell-sell-sell sales methods simply do not work on social media. — Kim Garst


709. “Speak to your audience in their language about what’s in their heart.” — Jonathan Lister, VP Global Sales Solutions, LinkedIn


710. “You don't build a business, you build people, then people build the business.”


711. “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.”


712. “Great men are not born great, they grow great.” —Vito Corleone, The Godfather


713. “Never, never, never give up.” –Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister


714. Michael Dell, founder of Dell.


715. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter F. Drucker, author


716. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”


717. “Your brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room.” Jeff Bezos


718. “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”


719. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” —Pablo Picasso


720. “If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” –Ray Kroc, McDonald’s Founder


721. “Ignoring online marketing is like opening a business but not telling anyone.” — KB Marketing Agency


722. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins


723. “Customer don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.”


724. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”


725. Jill Konrath, speaker, author and thought leader.


726. “All you have in business is your reputation – So it’s very important that you keep your work.”


727. “Digital marketing is not an art of selling a product. It is an art of making people buy the product that you sell.” — Hecate Strategy


728. Your top of the funnel content must be intellectually divorced from your product but emotionally wed to it. — Joe Chernov


729. Bo Schembechler: “The Team! The Team! The Team!”


730. “It’s very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.” – Jonathan Ive, former chief design officer, Apple


731. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” —Louise Hay


732. Mark Cuban, owner of Landmark Theaters and chairman of AXS TV.


733. “Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.”


734. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” ―Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor


735. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers


736. “A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.” ― George Meredith


737. Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week.


738. “Content is king." — Bill Gates, Co-Founder, Microsoft


739. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”


740. “People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction.” – Brian Halligan


741. “The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” —Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy (Click to tweet)


742. “Stick to your true north― build greatness for the long term.”―Ruth Porat


743. “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” –Donald Trump, The Trump Organization President


744. “Don’t deliver a product, deliver an experience.”


745. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”


746. “Bringing great people onto your team is about demonstrating that size really doesn’t matter – people do.”


747. “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” —Robert H. Schuller, motivational speaker


748. “Reading is good, action is better.”


749. “Business has only two functions – marketing and Innovation.”


750. “I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.” —Jay-Z


751. “There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.” —Heather Bresch, CEO of Mylan


752. Irene Rosenfeld, chairwoman and chief executive officer of Mondel?z International.


753. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou, poet and civil rights activist


754. “Write down every single idea you have no matter how big or small.”


755. “It always seems impossible, until it is done.”


756. “Content Marketing is no longer a numbers game. It’s a game of relevance.” – Jason Miller


757. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.” —Zig Ziglar, author


758. “Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” ―Anne Lamott


759. “What can go wrong, will go wrong.” – Ozzy Osbourne


760. “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.” – Unknown


761. “There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”


762. “You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”


763. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell


764. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”


765. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” ―Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor


766. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” – John Wooden


767. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot, author


768. Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers. — Seth Godin


769. “When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.” —Melissa McCarthy


770. “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” – John Lennon


771. “When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.” Meg Whitman


772. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard


773. Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's.


774. “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt


775. Unknown: “You have to believe it before you see it.”


776. “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination and more drive.”


777. “Business is all about relationships, how well you build them determines how well they build your business.”


778. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou


779. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison


780. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that’s why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan, NBA Hall of Famer


781. “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” —Vince Lombardi


782. “To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.” – Catherine Cook, co-founder of MyYearbook


783. “Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising.” – Jeff I. Richards


784. Search engine optimization plays a major role in the language of the World Wide Web as a noun, verb and adjective. — Todd Malicoat


785. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” —Malcolm Forbes, entrepreneur and former publisher of Forbes magazine


786. “How To Write A Business Plan Step By Step


787. “You can’t convince anyone of anything. You can only give them the right information, so that they convince themselves.” – Eben Pagan


788. “Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.” – Peter Drucker, author


789. “Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.” Henry Ford


790. “Marketing is telling the world you’re a rock star. Content marketing is showing the world you are one.”


791. Golda Meir, fourth Prime Minister of Israel.


792. “If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” – Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s


793. Successful blogging is not about one time hits. It’s about building a loyal following over time. — David Aston


794. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” —Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (Click to tweet)


795. “To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.” —Dorothy West


796. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho, lyricist and novelist


797. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” —Lucille Ball


798. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” ―Benjamin Franklin


799. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”


800. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” ―Walt Disney


801. “Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.” –Jack London, Author


802. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” —Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of the United States


803. “The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.” –Walt Disney, Co-Founder, Disney


804. “In 2004, good SEO made you remarkable on the web. In 2014, good SEO is a result of being remarkable on the web.” – Rand Fishkin


805. “Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.”


806. “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”


807. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ―A.A. Milne


808. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” —Howard Schultz, interim CEO of Starbucks (Click to tweet)


809. “The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.”


810. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” –Babe Ruth, Baseball Legend


811. “High expectations are the key to everything.” –Sam Walton, Walmart Founder


812. “Don’t worry about failure. You only have to be right once.”


813. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau


814. “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


815. “Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” —Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos


816. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson


817. Getting the Like is easy. It’s a light action. Anything else requires trust. — Jon Loomer


818. “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”


819. “Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality” — Les Brown


820. “Preparation doesn’t assure victory, it assures confidence.” – Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Worlds


821. “The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you’ll fail ten times for every success.” – Adam Horwitz, creator of Mobile Monopoly


822. “One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want.” –Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker and Author


823. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”


824. Walt Disney: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”


825. “Action is the foundational key to all success.”


826. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” – Sheryl Sandberg


827. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…” – Marcus Aurelius


828. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” Albert Einstein


829. “I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.” —Jake Nickell, founder and CEO of Threadless (Click to tweet)


830. “If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand.”


831. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”


832. “Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound more back.” — Dave Carolan


833. “Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.”


834. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”


835. “Never ever give up! Constant effort is the key to success.”


836. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford


837. “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher


838. “It’s not about better time management. It’s about better life management” — Alexandra of The Productivity Zone


839. “To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.”


840. “Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.” – Joe Penna, filmmaker


841. Everything you do has to drive content, and the rest takes care of itself. — Chris Bennett


842. “Everything starts with the customer.”


843. “Before you create any more ‘great content,’ figure out how you are going to market it first.” – Joe Pulizzi & Newt Barrett, Co-authors


844. “If you want to continually grow your blog, you need to learn to blog on a consistent basis.”


845. “In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.” –Sid Caesar, Entertainer


846. Steve Martin: “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”


847. “Don’t build links. Build relationships.” — Rand Fishkin, Founder, SparkToro


848. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” —Samuel Beckett, Irish avant-garde novelist and playwright


849. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” —Karen Lamb, author


850. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”


851. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” —Dolly Parton


852. “Success is the sum of small efforts—repeated day in and day out.” —Robert Collier, author


853. “The biggest mistake a small business can make is to think like a small business.”


854. “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein


855. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” —George Addair, real-estate developer


856. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” —John Keating, Dead Poets Society


857. “The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.” – Unknown


858. The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust. — Jason Calacanis


859. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ―Theodore Roosevelt


860. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”—Michael Jordan, former professional basketball player


861. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” —John D. Rockefeller, oil industry business magnate


862. “To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.”


863. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie


864. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” —Estee Lauder, founder of Estee Lauder Cosmetics (Click to tweet)


865. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin, writer


866. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”


867. “Always deliver more than expected.” –Larry Page, Co-Founder, Google


868. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” —Japanese proverb


869. “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” —Eames, Inception


870. Unknown: “Never underestimate the power of a t-shirt.”


871. “Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy. Do what is great while it is small.”


872. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” –Richard Branson, Virgin Group Founder


873. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” —Will Rogers, performer


874. “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)


875. “First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.”


876. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin, writer


877. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer


878. “Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!”—Kate Summers


879. “By listening, marketing will re-learn how to talk.” – Doc Searls & David Weinburger


880. “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, and poet


881. “Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” –Stephen R. Covey, Author


882. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” —Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.


883. “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” – Henry Ford


884. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”


885. Mahatma Gandhi: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”


886. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”


887. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn


888. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” —William Feather, publisher and author


889. “Content is fire. Social media is gasoline.” – Jay Baer


890. “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”


891. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ―Winston Churchill


892. Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor.


893. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”


894. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou


895. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” –Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder and former CEO


896. “Your brand is a story unfolding across all customer touch points.” — Jonah Sachs, Author


897. “I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” —Mia Hamm


898. “Without actionable data and clear metrics driven strategy, the marketing organization is being paid to guess.” – Team Position2


899. Marketing is telling the world you’re a rock star. Content Marketing is showing the world you are one. — Robert Rose


900. “You don’t build a business. You build people and people build the business.”

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