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17 Quotes on Achievement and Business.

Lines on growth, fame, competition, and consistency.

A collection of my own lines on achievement, business, and personal branding, gathered from years of writing, speaking, and the podcast.

  1. “Building your personal brand is one of the few ways you can ensure that you don’t stay broke.”
  2. “People get too big to do the little things and then wonder why they don’t have the big results.”
  3. “At the center of all achievement is personal growth.”
  4. “Competition only exists in your head, not in the marketplace.”
  5. “Chase the vision regardless of what other people do, say, or think.”
  6. “Your personal brand when consciously built can be a force for good or a force for destruction.”
  7. “Successful people who wish to maintain their successes must make the decision to do so.”
  8. “Feeling uncomfortable about a situation is oftentimes the indicator that growth is about to take place.”
  9. “True fame is not determined by the amount of people who heard of you, rather by the amount of people who support you.”
  10. “To give support should be commonplace in our society, not to be asked for.”
  11. “To act out of desperation is to act out of instinct. To let oneself get to that point, however, is to ignore self-preservation.”
  12. “It is normal to feel alone at the start of any journey. It’s the people who you meet along your travels that make the trip more interesting.”
  13. “Music allows me to disconnect from my present reality, and communicate to my future wisdom.”
  14. “To settle is to die. To not settle implies that death is avoidable.”
  15. “The very answers in which we seek are staring back at us in every reflection.”
  16. “Even the master plan has room for improvement.”
  17. “Your results are testaments of your actions, not your promises.”

First published on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab) on February 9, 2024. Lightly edited for this site.

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