Robert (Bo) Bennett is a businessman, author, programmer, philanthropist, martial artist, motivational speaker, amateur comedian, and most of all a husband and a father devoted to improving the lives of others. He is a graduate of Bryant College with a Bachelors degree in Marketing. By age 10, Bo started listening to and reading personal development tapes and books. Twenty years and hundreds of books later he is considered by many to be one of the leading experts on success. May his quotes inspire you to become a person of success so that you make your dreams a reality.
1. “A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.” Bo Bennett
2. “For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.” Bo Bennett
3. “If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.” Bo Bennett
4. “In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.” Bo Bennett
5. “Success is not in what you have but who you are.” Bo Bennett
6. “Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don’t put them both together by claiming, you don’t have the time.” Bo Bennett
7. “Communication is about being effective.” Bo Bennett
8. “Successful people radiate self-esteem, not self-disgust.” Bo Bennett
9. “Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.” Bo Bennett
10. “Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are while pursuing achievable goals.” Bo Bennett
11. “Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.” Bo Bennett
12. “Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.” Bo Bennett
13. “Self-sabotage is like a game of mental tug-of-war. It is the conscious mind versus the subconscious mind where the subconscious mind always eventually wins.” Bo Bennett
14. “Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.” Bo Bennett
15. “A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.” Bo Bennett
16. “Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.” Bo Bennett
17. “I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.” Bo Bennett
18. “We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependant on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.” Bo Bennett
19. “Spend some time this weekend on home improvement, improve your attitude toward your family.” Bo Bennett
20. “Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.” Bo Bennett
21. “Avoiding the phrase ‘I don’t have time’, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.” Bo Bennett
22. “Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.” Bo Bennett
23. “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.” Bo Bennett
24. “A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.” Bo Bennett
25. “Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.” Bo Bennett
26. “The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.” Bo Bennett
27. “Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.” Bo Bennett
28. “An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.” Bo Bennett
29. “It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.” Bo Bennett
30. “When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.” Bo Bennett
31. “A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.” Bo Bennett
32. “Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.” Bo Bennett
33. “One’s work usually occupies more than half of one’s waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.” Bo Bennett
34. “Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness” Bo Bennett
35. “If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have you spent your whole life pursuing?” Bo Bennett
