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It can be easy to look at the life of Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey or Thomas Edison – geniuses in business, media and technology— and think their success was innate, something they were born with and were always destined to have. This isn’t true. The fact is, every person who’s ever built something or accomplished anything in their life started somewhere, and often it was at the bottom. Famous quotes about success from people who have found it themselves may seem like platitudes, but often they’re the keenest insights we have into how their success was achieved.
Inspirational quotes on success have likely been decorating the walls of your classrooms and offices your entire life, but to dismiss them would be a mistake. They can change the way you see the pitfalls in your own life, the failures and false-starts, and reveal them for what they are: opportunities to grow, to start again — smarter and stronger this time, determined to achieve where you never have before.
The way you think about your own life and career, the challenges and opportunities it brings, will determine what you can accomplish. If you don’t believe success is possible for you, then it won’t be. It’s that simple. These 11 famous quotes about success represent just a small sample of all the wisdom that is out there from those who have come before you, but they can serve as motivation to achieve something of what they did. Consider each of them carefully and find something to take from them.
While you’re at it, consider what your own personal quotes on success might sound like. Because one day, someone may be reading them too.
When asked about New Year’s resolutions, common responses are losing weight, getting a new job, and saving more money. For entrepreneurs, the answer is more complicated as business New Year’s resolutions require greater specificity and accountability, and the motivation to see them through.
As you and your team plan for the year ahead, consider these six, actionable business New Year’s resolutions:
1. Connect with More Customers
A new year means new opportunities to connect with more customers and grow your business. Learn as much as you can about them from social media, analytics platforms, internet forums, and blogs. Check in with existing customers and get feedback for improvement. Your customers will appreciate your proactive interest in them, and in turn, you’ll be on track to strengthen relationships and build new ones.
2. Communicate More Effectively
Miscommunication wastes time and affects morale. Nobody likes repeating themselves, and time spent clarifying is better spent knocking out approaching deadlines. Save time and help your team feel heard by asking for feedback and advice on what works best for them. Whether it’s less emails for more one-on-ones, or using a productivity tool, effective internal communication helps make all other goals seem more possible.
3. Learn a New Skill
Successful people are always learning; their student mentality keeps them open to new perspectives and innovation. Whether it’s to benefit your work or fuel a passion project, learning a new skill will help boost your confidence and give more opportunities to network with others in classes and workshops.
4. Make Time for Yourself
Running a business is hard, but it’s harder when you’re burnt out. Resolve to make time for yourself this year and set expectations with clients and colleagues, even if it’s only for a lunch break or turning your phone off after dinner. Often, complicated tasks become less complicated when you’re feeling refreshed. Taking time off allows your mind the room it needs to wander and connect the dots in unexpected ways.
5. Expand Your Comfort Zone
Make an effort to take more calculated risks and tackle different projects. It seems daunting, but the benefits far outweigh the intimidation. Expanding your comfort zone creates room for real growth and empowers you to chase new opportunities for your team, your business, and your clients. Plus, it shows that you’re versatile and bold, who wouldn’t want to do business with someone like that?
6. Set More SMART Goals
Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely goal setting is how successful people get large projects done. That also goes for New Year’s resolutions, which have a tendency to get dropped around January 7th. Keep your business New Year’s resolutions on track this year by setting more SMART goals, and ask your friend how that gym membership is coming.
When brainstorming your resolutions, reflect on these powerful business quotes for the New Year:
Mark Twain
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one."
Ben Stein
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.”
Peter F. Drucker
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”
As you go into the New Year, effectively manage your resolutions by ensuring they stay top of mind. Consider printing them out and giving everyone a copy, and sending reminders when appropriate. Although these are business New Year’s resolutions and quotes, the advice is timeless and will help inspire greater work across a variety of teams.
These words of wisdom will inspire you to overcome any obstacle in your path.
An inspiring quote is the perfect tool to use when you find that an obstacle is blocking your way forward. We’ve collected 20 inspirational quotes for you to read when you need encouragement. At Cydcor, we teach our employees and sales representatives to embrace optimism. You will find an optimistic, positive perspective within the quotes we’ve selected.
Find a quote that is meaningful to you, then take a few moments to reflect on how it applies to the obstacles you face. Write it down on a piece of paper to become more familiar with the words and wisdom it contains. Display it in a place where you’ll see it regularly. Read the quote out loud whenever you need inspiration. Reminding yourself every day of what inspires you, of what pushes you to achieve greater things, is a powerful tool for maintaining your professional progress.
Is there a special quote you turn to when you’re facing an obstacle? Post it on Twitter, follow us @Cydcor, and share it on your social media platforms. We want to know what motivates you when need it the most.
We are Cydcor, the recognized leader in outsourced sales services. From our humble beginnings as an independent sales company based in Canada to garnering a reputation as the global leader in outsourced sales, Cydcor has come a long way. We’ve done this by having exceptional sales professionals and providing our clients with proven sales and marketing strategies that get results.
As you celebrate the New Year, reflect back on the one we’re just finishing up. What were your biggest successes? Your most frustrating failures? Consider the coming months and use this year’s experiences to identify possible challenges and desired goals.
After a month or two, the New Year loses some of its initial excitement and may move back into that place of hard work and routine. It’s during these times that we need support and encouragement to continue moving onward and upward the most.
We’ve selected 12 inspirational quotes from some seriously smart men and women in a variety of professions. Their wit and wisdom are just the spark you’ll need to pump up your optimism!
1. "If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door." – Milton Berle, American humorist, and actor
2. "Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve." – Mary Kay Ash, Founder Mary Kay Cosmetics
3. "It’s easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever." – Zig Ziglar, Salesman and motivational speaker
4. "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them." – Ann Landers, Advice columnist
5. "Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and a deadline to make you run." – Ben Feldman, Salesman, and author
6. "I’ve never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard." – Estée Lauder, Co-founder Estée Lauder Companies
7. "Fear is the destroyer of dreams and the killer of ambitions." – Jeffrey Benjamin, Senior adviser to Cyrus Capital Partners, LP
8. "If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it, and that’s the bottom line. I don’t believe in an easy way through." – Isabel Dos Santos, Africa’s richest businesswoman as reported by Forbes
9. "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." – Booker T. Washington, African-American educator, author, and businessman
10. "You really can change the world if you care enough." – Marian Wright Edelman, President and founder, The Children’s Defense Fund
11. "A lot of people complain about yesterday. We have no power to change yesterday. But this very day, 30 years later, is what we can control and decide. Change yourself, take baby steps, and stay determined for ten years." – Jack Ma, executive chairman of Alibaba Group
12, "My best successes came on the heels of failures." – Barbara Corcoran, businesswoman and investor, host of ABC’s Shark Tank
Save these quotes. Display them near your work area where is easy for you to see. Get familiar with them and turn to them when times get tough. Use these quotes as the foundation of a personal book of quotations, one that you’ll build and study over the coming months and years.
And always remember that you’re never alone when you surround yourself with wise and thoughtful friends.
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We are Cydcor, the recognized leader in outsourced sales services. From our humble beginnings as an independent sales company based in Canada, to garnering a reputation as the global leader in outsourced sales, Cydcor has come a long way. We’ve done this by having exceptional sales professionals and providing our clients with proven sales and marketing strategies that get results.