I like to read quotes from those who have had success.  The inspire me and I keep many of them in my office in places where I can see them regularly.  Below is a sample of some that I find ring true for the recruiters desk, and anyone that is running a business.  No matter where you work, your desk is YOUR business!

  • The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Nolan Bushnell
  • My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner

  • Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf
  • The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place. – Orison Swett Marden
  • I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! – C.J. Walker
  • The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. – Debbi Fields
  • Life is too complicated not to be orderly. – Martha Stewart
  • The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. – Dennis Waitley
  • Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
  • Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg

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    By Noel Cocca

    CEO/Founder RecruitingDaily and avid skier, coach and avid father of two trying to keep up with my altruistic wife. Producing at the sweet spot talent acquisition to create great content for the living breathing human beings in recruiting and hiring. I try to ease the biggest to smallest problems from start-ups to enterprise. Founder of RecruitingDaily and our merry band of rabble-rousers.