Motivation! Modern Style!

The nature of being an entrepreneur means that you fully embrace ambiguity and are comfortable with being challenged regularly. Choosing this career path is completely irrational because the odds of succeeding are dismal, but most succeed because of their unwavering belief, laser focus on delivering and persistence.

Even these “go-getters” would use some motivation for the great entrepreneurs that have greatly succeeded before them. Here are some of my favorite motivational quotes that make a difference in my life, both personal and professional

1. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”- Peter Drucker

2. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”- Vince Lombardi

3. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which
      is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out
      your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They
      somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

4. “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University
      education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new.” – Richard Branson

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

6. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do
      things differently.”- Warren Buffett

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

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

9. “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” - Donald Trump

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

11.”Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”- Thomas Edison

12. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the
        ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
        your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

13. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether
        we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”- Vince Lombardi

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

15. “Success is not what you have, but who you are.”- Bo Bennet

Do you read motivational quotes as part of your work day? Do you have any particular sayings that have made a difference in your life?