Business, Blogging

50 Motivating Quotes for

Business and Blogging
February 26, 2015
I believe that we can all benefit from those who have gone before us
and have more experience in our industry. I also believe that everyone
loves a good quote. So today I'm rounding up some of my favorite
quotes on business and blogging from the some of the best to help you
stay motivated as you round out your busy workweek.

1. "I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong." Benjamin
Franklin
2. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." John D.
Rockefeller
3. "Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising." Milton
Hershey
4. "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your
enthusiasm." Sir Winston Churchill
5. "The value of an idea lies in the using of it." Thomas Edison
6. "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything
new." Albert Einstein
7. "Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a
trusted friend." Mark Zuckerberg
8. "The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph." George
Washington

9. "Content is king, but distribution is queen and she wears the

pants." Jonathan Perelman
10. "Write what you know." Mark Twain
11. "All the things I love is what my business is all about." Martha
Stewart
12. "Content is anything that adds value to the reader's life." Avinash
Kaughik
13. "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it
works." Steve Jobs
14. "Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem." Sally
Hogshead
15. "Don't focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog
that's great for your readers." Brian Clark
16. "The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are
never, ever done." Seth Godin
17. "Either write something worth reading or do something worth
writing." Benjamin Franklin

18. "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in

imitation." Herman Melville
19. "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite
simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as
the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by
failure or you can lean from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all

you can. Because remember that's where you will find success." Thomas
J. Watson
20. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." Walt
Disney
21. "If you can learn something new every day, you can teach
something new every day." Martha Stewart
22. "I don't know the secret to success. But I do know the secret of
failure is trying to please everybody." Bill Cosby
23. "It's not the customer's job to know what they want." Steve Jobs
24. "Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no
shortcuts." Larry L. King
25. "Content is the reason search began in the first place." Lee Odden
26. "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should
not be done at all." Peter Drucker
27. "A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn
reputation by trying to do hard things well." Jeff Bezos

28. "If people like you they will listen to you, but if they trust
you they'll do business with you." Zig Ziglar
29. "In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but
by what you finally accomplish." Donald Trump
30. "Content: there is no easy button." Scott Abel
31. "Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working
40 hours per week." Lori Greiner
32. "When you brand yourself properly, the competition becomes
irrelevant." Dan Schawbel
33. "Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor,
work in business at all times." John Gerzema
34. "You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills." Jim
Rohn
35. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison

36. "These days, people want to learn before they buy, be educated

instead of pitched." Brian Clark

37. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well
enough." Albert Einstein
38. "Don't find customers for your products, find products for your
customers." Seth Godin
39. "The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see
how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a
dollar, is bound to succeed." Henry Ford
40. "A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what
consumers tell each other it is." Scott Cook
41. "No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself
or get all the credit." Andrew Carnegie
42. "If you're looking for the next best thing, and you're looking where
everyone else is, you're looking in the wrong place." Mark Cuban
43. "Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can
always tell you what's wrong." Carly Fiorina

44. "If you think good design is expensive, you should look at
the cost of bad design." Dr. Ralf Speth
45. "An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and
boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it
personally." Seth Godin
46. "The paradox is the more info you give away, the more people will
buy what you have to give." Brian Clark
47. "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of
learning." Bill Gates
48. "Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much
better than two doubles." Steve Jobs
49. "The only place where success comes before work is in the
dictionary." Vidal Sassoon
50. "Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard." Guy Kawasaki