FOUR INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES TO HELP YOU BECOME MORE PRODUCTIVE THIS WEEK

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Let’s start your week off with these quotes from some of the world’s most successful people. Enjoy. 

1. Jeff Bezos on Work Hard:
First off, I like the fact that Jeff Bezos keeps fit.  I come across the word “healthy-billionaire” a lot on Instagram (it’s one of the many hashtags used by fitness influencers) but I think Jeff Bezos exemplifies the word. He is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc. and the world’s richest man (according to Forbes).
On Hard work, Jeff says, “Be proud, not of your gifts, but of your hard work and choices.” According to Bezos, “you can’t really be proud of your gifts because they were given to you. You can be grateful for them and thankful for them. But your choices; you choose to work hard…those are choices you could be proud of.”

2.      Tom Ford on Improvement.
Well, if you do not know anything about Tom ford, at least know that he is the guy, Nigerian Oil tycoon, Femi Odetola tags in all his Instagram posts.  Without sounding cliché, I have to say Tom Ford is a household name in the global fashion space.  Here’s Ford’s advice on Improvement.
“I think that we are doing well but I think we can do better at all the things that we do. Good enough in anything is when you feel like you have given your best. You have said everything you have to say.”

3.       Oprah Winfrey on Mind-set.
I love everything that Oprah says. I believe that if you are trying to answer the question, what’s my purpose, then you should check out Oprah. She’s huge on the topic.
According to Oprah, it is all about what you believe: “The fundamental key to success is what you believe is true for yourself. It is not what you want, not what you desire, what you believe.”

4.       Tony Robbins on Discipline.
Tony Robbins is a successful life coach.
In one interview (actually the one I pulled this quote from), he was alluding to the idea that nothing works in our lives except we make them work, which I quite agree with. This is where discipline comes in. According to Robbins, “if you get up and you have no discipline whatsoever, you will get no value out anything.”

I hope these quotes inspired you in some way. Remember that with the right mind-set, with hard work
and discipline, you will go very far in life.
Thanks for reading and see you in the next post.

-Tobi Amokeodo





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