Today I would like to write a different kind of article which contains my top 5 quotes on how to be successful in business. Some of these passages are inspirational while others are motivational and some can be life changing if applied as stated and are delivered by some of the most successful business people in the world. Here are my favorite 5 quotations concerning accomplishing your goals in the world of commerce whether your business is online or is a more traditional offline venture:
1. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. (Conrad Hilton)
– This is a very straight forward message but from my experience it’s very true. How many of us have purchased home business money making programs online only to leave them to collect dust, so to speak, on our hard drives. The secret, many Internet marketers and so called gurus say, is to take action and to be consistent with your activity by completing some task each and every day related to succeeding with your enterprise. These efforts will inevitably lead to mistakes and set backs but perseverance is the key in the face of adversity.
2. Before success in any man’s life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. (Napoleon Hill)
– This quote couldn’t be more accurate and it seems as though it was created for new entrepreneurs online. New business people on the web seem to quit at an alarming rate with the percentage of successful new start-ups coming in at a paltry 2%. Unfortunately this seems to happen because quitting is the easy way out. Mistakes and set backs are the nature of the business world; however, we must never let these circumstances thwart our efforts toward success.
3. Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
(Andrew Grove)
– When some business people achieve a certain level of success they seem to want to sit back and enjoy what they’ve achieved while forgetting what it was that got them there in the first place which was hard work. If you become complacent, especially online with your Internet marketing campaign, you will soon find that your new customers are declining because your traffic is dissipating from lack of effort with your online advertising. Only those of us who can feel the competition breathing down our necks on a daily basis and do something about it will survive on the web.
4. A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
– Interpretation of this passage implies that all new home business startups online are going to have growing pains and experience setbacks and sometimes failure. However, the trick is not to expect too much too soon and by being patient, methodical and consistent with your Internet marketing efforts success will follow; maybe not tomorrow but soon.
5. My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things. (Bill Gates)
– This is another quote we can apply directly to our Internet marketing efforts. Once again, how many of us have failed to focus by trying a new online home business opportunity every week or every month. Sometimes we look for the next big chance or promise of success instead of choosing a program we believe in and concentrate on making it a success. The flavor of the month approach is never going to spell success online.
It never hurts to listen to people who’ve been there and done that and have achieved the success we can only dream about and continue to work toward on a daily basis.
(Quotes Courtesy of Woopidoo)