In my weekly Tuesday Tips newsletter I went and shared some terrific inspirational quotes with my readers. There were also a few funny ones mixed in.

There’s so much to be learned from others even by reading a simple, single sentence quote. Speaking for myself, sometimes a just quote can provide an Ah-HA moment or provide the inspiration to continue forward during difficult times.

Here are a few I wanted to share with you for now and I’m hoping you’ll take a moment to leave a comment and share your own favorite quotes with my readers.

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, either way you’re right.”

“Success comes in a can, failure comes in a can’t.”

“If you love what you do you’ll never work another day in your life.”

“It’s easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.”

“Everybody’s a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it.”

“Success comes before work only in the dictionary.”

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”

“When you were born you were crying and everybody around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you pass from this earth you’ll be smiling and everybody around you will be crying.”

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

Here are a few humorous quotes:

“The only trouble with trouble is it starts off as fun.”

“If at first you DO succeed try not to look too surprised.”

“Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.”

“Whoever said money cannot buy happiness simply does not know where to shop.”

“The road to success is always under construction.”

I recently read a book entitled The Go-Giver by Burg & Mann – in fact I’ve read it multiple times. I’m not necessarily endorsing the book but what I will say is it’s one of the best business books I’ve read recently.

The basic message of the book is one of reciprocity; that in order to receive anything in life you must first give. I’ve read tons of business books and the lessons taught in The Go-Giver – a seemingly simple little 130 page book – are essential for success in today’s economy.

The most important lesson is this: you must give freely without want in order to get.

This lesson holds particular importance especially in today’s economic climate. People today are very cautious about what they do with their money. They won’t want to do business with somebody if they do not first trust that person and see them as a valuable resource.

The days of a slick ad campaign or standing at the top of a mountain screaming that you’re the best are no longer effective vehicles for success. This new, emerging economy demands that you prove your value to others first before they’ll want to do business with you.

You can do this by freely giving value without expecting or asking for something in return. I’ve personally put this lesson into practice in my own life and business and it’s truly a miracle to see what has happened.

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I am dead serious about this, if you want to see better results show up in your life, stop asking what you can get from people and start asking what you can give to them to make their lives better. By making the lives of other people better you will, by the law of reciprocity, be making your own life better. This I can absolutely guarantee you.

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