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
Which one of these was your favorite? What are your favorite business and blogging quotes?
