In the world of business networking, BNI (Business Network International) meetings end with a powerful message - a closing quote intended to leave attendees inspired and motivated. Are you the leader of a Chapter looking for a BNI closing quote? Or are you simply looking for a resource of inspiration?
In this article, I've curated 50 quotes tailored for closing BNI meetings, each one chosen to leave a lasting impact and keep the entrepreneurial spirit alive.
For those tasked with choosing BNI quotes every week, it's a chance to inject creativity into a structured format, wrapping up meetings on a high note, or offering a dose of positivity to carry forward. While for others seeking inspiration, it's a valuable resource to punctuate your efforts with the motivation to tackle your goals each week, all year.
- Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. – Michael Altshuler
- I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be. – Albert Einstein
- Do or do not, there is no try. – Yoda (May the 4th Meeting)
- When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game. But you don't get a win unless you play in the game. You get love for it. You get hate for it. You get nothing if you wait for it, wait for it. – Hamilton (the musical)
- The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. – Barbara Kingsolver
- Spring is nature's way of telling us, let's party! – Robin Williams
- It's not a sin to lose the sale, it's a sin to do it slowly. – Chris Voss
- Pulling a good network together takes effort, sincerity, and time – Bob Burg
- The freedom to make a mess starts when you are clean enough to make a mess. – David Allen, Getting Things Done
- The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. – Socrates
- Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. – Suzy Kassem
- How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. – Warren Buffet
- In the end… We only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.” – Lewis Carroll
- Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right. – Henry Ford
- Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me. – Arianna Huffington
- Tetris taught me that if you fit in, you disappear. – Tobi Lütke
- If you cannot risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot become your best. If you cannot become your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else matters? – Dr. David Viscott, author of "Risking"
- He who chases two rabbits catches none. – Proverb
- All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people. – Ursula le Guin
- Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. – Biz Stone, cofounder of Twitter
- Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great. – Cher
- No one wants to fly with a pilot who has only seen blue skies. – Amelia Rose Earhart
- The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
- If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou
- Business opportunities are like buses – there’s always another one coming.? – Richard Branson
- Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you. – Tony Hsieh
- May you live all the days of your life. – Jonathan Swift
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
- Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller
- Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. – Leah Busque
- The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. – Herbert Spencer
- If you hear a voice within you say, You cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh
- Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker
- It's not too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot
- The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress. – Dan Waldschmidt
- It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants; the question is, what are you busy about? – Henry David Thoreau
- I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson
- At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. – Albert Schwitzer
- Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. – Navy SEALs
- We are the stories we tell ourselves. – Joan Didion
- Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. – Madame CJ Walker
- I never lose. Either I win or I learn. – Nelson Mandela
- The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey
- Your mind is like a parachute: If it isn’t open, it doesn’t work. – Buzz Aldrin
- The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain
- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller
- All great things begin with a vision… a dream… I’ve always believed that success comes from not letting your eyes stray from that target. Anyone who wants to achieve a dream must stay focused, strong, and steady. – Estee Lauder
- Inspiration is merely the reward for working every day. – Charles Baudelaire, Poet and art critic, circa 1867
- The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
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6 天前Amazing! I'm saving these to have in my back pocket as president of my BNI chapter this year, BNI Focus in Florida.
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7 个月Great post, thank you for sharing!
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7 个月David Vaine, CAPM? BNI Golden Horseshoe - Canada feel free to share these closing quotes with incoming Presidents...
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8 个月These are some great quotes!
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8 个月Awesome!