Top 150 Positive Work Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

52. “Change your focus from making money to serving more people. Serving people makes the money come in.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

53. “Success is when your signature becomes an autograph.”

— Abdul Kalam

54. “The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.”

— Robin S. Sharma

55. “I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.”

— Elon Musk

56. “Progress is more important than perfection.”

— Simon Sinek

57. “People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.”

— John Maeda

58. “If you rest, you rust.”

— Helen Hayes

59. “Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.”

— Elon Musk

60. “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

61. “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

— Ayn Rand

62. “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.”

— Steve Jobs

63. “Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.”

— John C. Maxwell

64. “People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.”

— Tom Vilsack

65. “Proactive people carry their own weather with them.”

— Stephen R. Covey

66. “I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.”

— Kent Beck

67. “Want more credit for all you do and who you are? Be the one who gives credit to others.”

— Robin S. Sharma

68. “When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.”

— Zig Ziglar

69. “Finding is reserved for those that search.”

— Jim Rohn

70. “Do your best and then relax.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

71. “Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.”

— Biz Stone

72. “The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.”

— John Burroughs

73. “Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.”

— Peter F. Drucker

74. “Collaboration is multiplication.”

— John C. Maxwell

75. “Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.”

— Simon Sinek

76. “The bridge between reality and a dream is work.”

— Jared Leto

77. “The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.”

— Colin Powell

78. “Be the Mick Jagger of the Mailroom, the Warren Buffett of Bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling”

— Robin S. Sharma

79. “For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”

— Winston Churchill

80. “It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.”

— Whitney M. Young

81. “Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.”

— Stephen R. Covey

82. “I’d rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.”

— J. Paul Getty

83. “Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.”

— Bruce Lee

84. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

— Ray Kroc

85. “We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.”

— Stephen R. Covey

86. “I always finish what I start.”

— Ally Carter

87. “I never want money that I didn’t earn.”

— Casey Neistat

88. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”

— Thomas Jefferson

89. “Don’t just make money, make a difference.”

— Grant Cardone

90. “Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

91. “The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.”

— Denis Waitley

92. “If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.”

— Joel Osteen

93. “Failure is part of the process of success.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

94. “Don’t show up to prove. Show up to improve.”

— Simon Sinek

95. “Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.”

— Simon Sinek

96. “Little strokes fell great oaks.”

— Benjamin Franklin

97. “Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.”

— Jaggi Vasudev

98. “A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot.”

— Joe Vitale

99. “I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.”

— Ayrton Senna

100. “When there’s change, there’s opportunity.”

— Jack Welch