Inspirational Quotes from Business Leaders
Sometimes all it takes is an encouraging word to give us a new energy or direction. See below some empowering and inspirational quotes which may help to jump start your day.
Don’t cultivate a little island mentality about anything – see the broader picture.” – Sir Trevor McDonald
“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey
“If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.” – Beyonce Knowles
If you don’t laugh at your dream it is not big enough.” – Claud Williams
“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk
“The main thing is, if you have an idea for business, as I say, screw it, just do it. Give it a go. You may fall flat on your face, but you pick yourself up and keep trying until you succeed.” – Richard Branson
“Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that’s the foundation for everything great.” – Jay-Z
“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time than we fall down.” – Arianna Huffington
“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. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
“The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance — and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
“I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me 30 years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.” – Aliko Dangote
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
“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
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
“You are where you are today because you stand on somebody’s shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It’s the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give.” – Vernon Jordan
The thing is though that words of inspiration will only get us so far. Always remember Maya Angelou’s words, “Nothing will work unless you do.”
Compiled by Shellecia Brooks-Johnson
