Eric Thomas Quotes

Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.

Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!

I dare you to try to shortcut success! It's not going to happen! There are no shortcuts to success!

Every single day has to be excellent. You gotta give it all you got!

Be phenomenal or be forgotten!

When you leave this earth, accomplish every single thing you could accomplish.

Listen to me, even when you lose, it's OK to lose, but you can never get comfortable with it. You can never be satisfied with losing. When you lose, it's got to hurt.

You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress

Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.

You are upgrading your technology, and you've not upgraded yourself!

The difference between those who succeed and fail: not taking advantage of opportunities.

I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.

You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.

At some point in life you have to face your fears.

We all have one thing in common: Happy New Year! It's a clean slate.

When you impress yourself, you're going to automatically impress us.

No one fails alone and no one succeeds alone.

My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something!

The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.

When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe! That's when you find a way!

Because when I'm a copycat I'm never good! But when I'm Eric Thomas, I'm great! I'm great at what I do!

All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.

If you sleep,you will miss the OPPORTUNITY to be successful

If you willing to put in that sweat! Blood! And tears! I'm telling you! You can have, be and do what you want!

I've gotta breathe it, I've gotta eat it, I've gotta sleep it and until you get there you will never be successful in life. But once you get there I guarantee you, the world is yours. So work hard, and you can have whatever it is that you want.

I kind of knew that there were a lot of people that didn't go to church and normally wouldn't listen to people, but they would come and listen to me talk.

The problem with most people! Is that you're not obsessed with improvement.

So that's the biggest lessonsI've learned it is your dream, you do not need a business loan, you do not need the support of others, you need to do what you need to do and when you become, what do I want to call the word, like legitimate, when people see that you are real, then people will support you, but you can't ask them to take a risk on you.

I don't just work! I think about my work, reflect on my work and think of what changes can I make, how can I elevated my game.

Some of ya'll SAY you be grinding but...you don't really know how to GRIND!!

Regardless of how much is left in the tank, you gotta fight back!

To be successful is never convenient. The things you have to go through, it's never convenient.

Don't cry to quit. Cry to keep going!

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.

You want to be a millionaire. But your values system says you believe in sleep more than grinding!

This is your moment! Seize the opportunity to be great!

I don't care if you broke, you grew up broke... you grew up rich. You only get 24hrs in a day! We all only get 24 hours in a day. It's what we do with it that makes the difference!

There's somebody else just like you trying to do it! But you gotta do it faster than they do it!

Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.

If you ready to take your game to the next level, you gotta change that mindset.

For every dream that you have, your week needs to match that dream.

It's not about where you come from, it's about heart.

It only takes one extra something! To get you to where you trying to get to!

One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and I'm not just talking about just to eat. You have to think about the civil rights movement, they were putting in work; marching, walking miles and miles, sacrificing, getting on the bus, feeding one another, they had schools, voter registration, they were working! They were hard workers so my advice is to work.

We don't have the power as humans to determine which day we die. We don't get to make that decision.

Better is a book than a well built house.

I’m discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the whole world needs to do, so the worker wakes up at 8AM, but the dreamer, the innovator, the creator, the engineer is up at 3 or 4 in the morning making it happen.