Motivation Business Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes i feel that i am unlucky due to couldn't enroll in the Harvard Business School but at least by this encouragement that i enrolled in MBA in Human resource management program whereas i grown as a leader and build the team in the field of HRM through motivation. — Avinash Advani

But then, of course, there are always unanswered questions. Those questions lead to more questions, with the circularity of the endless inquest, keeping people like me in business. We can and should always poke at the questions of motivation. And we will. There never is a final draft of history. — Bob Woodward

Dreaming of being on Moon cannot get you there. It requires a focused & intelligent effort to achieve what you Dream. — Neelesh V. Sakhardande

Mistakes and miscalculations are human and normal, and viewed in the long run they have not damaged the company. I do not mind taking responsibilty for every managerial decision I have made. But if a person who makes a mistake is branded and kicked off the seniority promotion escalator, he could lose his motivation for the rest of his business life and depreive the company of whaever good things he may have to offer later. If the casues of the mistake are clarified and made public, the person who made the mistake will not forget it and others will not make the same mistake. I tell our people Go ahead and do what you think is right. If you make a mistake, you will learn form it. Just don't make the same mistake twice. — Akio Morita

People aren't happy because they're successful. They're successful because they're happy. — Jeff Sutherland

Policy makers and business leaders take note: money matters. But often the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table - so that people can focus on the work rather than on the cash. — Daniel H. Pink

Honestly, I don't want to get into two grown men's personal business ... I like both of them as a person and I love Mayweather as a boxer so I leave it up to them to handle. — Adrien Broner

There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or we fail to continue. — Christopher Babson

One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating. — James Randi

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. — Michael Moore

People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work. — Marilyn Suttle

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The best a man can get.
I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of those guys, vigorous and athletic and successful and, most of all, American. I was going to walk on the moon, be a movie star or a rock got or a comedian. I was going to have an amazing life and kids with Helen and die like Chaplin a thousand years from now in my Beverly Hills mansion surrounded by my adoring family, with the grieving world media standing by. Instead, I was just another show-business mediocrity. A drunk who shat his pants and ran for help.
My life had been careless and selfish. Pleasure in the moment was my only thought, my solitary motivation. I had disappointed whoever had been foolish enough to love me, and left them scarred.
I was a very long way from being the best a man can get. — Craig Ferguson

The world needs peak performers like you to set the example of how to accept failures, dust off, and move on with your head held high. Whether you face a business failure, a divorce, a missed opportunity, a lost sale, a fumbled business presentation, or all of the above, own it, learn from it, and envision a successful future. — Michelle McCullough

You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying. — Samer Chidiac

I let beef get settled in the street, I just handle my business as a professional boxer. — Adrien Broner

Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people. — Brian Tracy

I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that! — Mignon' Talise Padilla

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...
It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet. — Dee Williams

As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating. — Jon Miller

My first bit of advice is to not personalize a job loss. The cause for the dismissal was a business calculation. This is difficult for many to grasp; it's difficult to accept that events just occur. Come to see this as an experience. Obviously not the most pleasant experience, but it is one that you'll overcome. — John-Talmage Mathis

You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward. — Nancy D. Butler

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. — Isaac Asimov

My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq — Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work. — Marilyn Suttle

Cream always rises to the top ... so do good leaders. — John Paul Warren

You have to actively listen to your clients and provide the service they're looking for! — John Di Lemme

It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

If you get into entrepreneurshi p driven by profit, you are a lot more likely to fail. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people's lives, not just their own bank balances. The desire to change things for the better is the motivation for taking risks and pursuing seemingly impossible business ideas. — Richard Branson

Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time. — Amah Lambert

Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side. — Gay Mitchell

I just had way too much energy for six A.M. Too much motivation. It was like the drunk side of my brain was trying to act distracting and entertaining, so the business side wouldn't realize it was being held hostage by a drunk. I — Augusten Burroughs

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business. — Robert Frost

Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture. — Muhammad Yunus

No! Leadership is not the business of people who need to be motivated! — Amit Chatterjee

The world of romance and business works on this principle - You may be rejected several times, but not everyone will reject you. — Amit Kalantri

Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers. — Mick Delaney

Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once. — Mary Mihalic

ultimately, open source depends on intrinsic motivation with the same ferocity that older business models rely on extrinsic motivation, — Daniel H. Pink

My 11 #books come without pomp n frills, for all seeking #true #meaning & unafraid of overcoming past conditioning. #Rewards are infinite — Michael Levy

My first advice is to keep God first in everything you do. Second is stay in shape, stay ready and learn about the business because you don't want to be in a business you know nothing about, because they will take advantage of you, in this business. — Roy Jones Jr.

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path. — Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame. — Brandi L. Bates

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data. — Robert Pozen

But I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment. — David Sedaris

...an external reward can affect one's interpretation of one's own motivation, and interpretation that comes to be self-fulfilling. A similar effect may account for the familiar fact that when someone turns his hobby into a business, he often loses pleasure in it. Likewise, an intellectual who pursues an academic career gets professionalized, and this may lead him to stop thinking. This line of reasoning suggests that the kind of appreciative attention where one remains focused on what one is doing can arise only in leisure activities. Such a conclusion would put pleasurable absorption beyond the ken of any activity that is undertaken for the sake of making money, because although money is undoubtedly good, it is not intrinsically so. — Matthew Crawford

Entrepreneurs don't ask for permission. They act per a mission. — Ryan Lilly

The real rich people doesn't have bank accounts, they have treasures. — Amit Kalantri

Beware of those who love to give advice, but never want to receive it! — Mignon' Talise Padilla

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. — Rensis Likert

Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through the university. On the job, people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. — Peter M. Senge

I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works. — Tim Harford

I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing. — Mike Tyson

None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists who will set the saints to this business of praying. We are not a generation of praying saints. Who will restore this breach? The greatest will he be of reformers who can set the Church to praying. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Motivation is not just part of business - it's everything in business. — Ehab Atalla

Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy. — Brian Tracy

There is also the professional mentor, a person whose success in his or her career can be a source of practical wisdom and inspiration. This success might be mea sured in material gain or far-reaching influence, or in lives touched and relationships fostered. These mentors can offer a model for good business, ethical practices, and effective work habits, and they often provide the motivation we need to seize whatever opportunities come our way. — John Wooden

What kind of impression are you leaving on people? Activate the ability for your first impression and last impression! — John Di Lemme

Believe you can and you will be halfway there. — Lolly Daskal

In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route. — Suzy Kassem

You could be beaten down by anybody and by everybody and it doesn't matter what everybody else thinks it's how you see yourself and what your own dreams are. And, you know, anybody who started a business and build a business knows there's going to be lots of times when you feel beaten down and you need some motivation and that's when I turn to that book among others. — Mark Cuban

Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate. — Amah Lambert

People will let you down in this business every single day. I think you'll be let down and disappointed more than you'll be accepted and excited. But you need to find ways to keep yourself inspired. This is mine. What's yours? — Jenna Mullins

Motivation itself generally lasts about two plays - it's highly overrated," he said. "Give me a team that has a business-like attitude, a team that can deal with adversity when it comes. — Monte Burke

Um um um um um. This business of - this business about marketing yourself, there's nothing wrong with that. Unless we're allowed to think that that's - that that's it. That that's the point, that that's the goal, you know? And that's the reason we're here - because that's so empty. And you as a writer know that it's - if you as a writer think that your job is to get as many people to like your stuff and think well of you as possible ... And I could, we could both, name writers that it's pretty obvious that's their motivation? It kills the work. Each time. That that's maybe 50 percent of it, but it misses all the magic. And it misses, it doesn't let you be afraid. Or it doesn't, like, let you like make yourself be, be vulnerable. Or ... nah, see, I'm not ... Anyway, anyway. — David Foster Wallace

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world — Roger James Hamilton

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first. — Kelly Cutrone

While others were dreaming about it - I was getting it done. — Nathan W. Morris

Procrastinating to embark on your passion is a risky business, because tomorrow may never come! — Alex Zar

I'd rather be an adviser. I don't wanna become a trainer because I think with the knowledge and the business sense that I've accomplished through my career and have credibility, why would I reduce myself down to being in a gym with a bunch of training which is not a bad thing to give advice, but I can do that with a suit and tie on and also be there when the cheques are written. I don't wanna be there when the cheques are handed down from 3 or 4 people's hands and then it hits mine as a trainer because 9/10 times, deductions have come out of that. — Bernard Hopkins

Maybe you are in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy looking for a way out, looking for the next rung in the ladder on your climb to the Peak of Happiness, or you may even be at the Peak of Happiness already, looking for a way to stay there. Wherever you are in life, this book is designed to give you the tools necessary to help you achieve your goals. — Ken Poirot

There is no blueprint to leadership, quite the conundrum in a business world where standardization is celebrated. — Noel DeJesus