Darren Hardy is an American author, motivational speaker, and advisor. He was born on February 26, 1971. He previously served as the magazine’s publisher. The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster, Living Your Best Year Ever, and The Compound Effect was written by Hardy, a New York Times best-selling book.
He has spent more than 25 years playing a key role in the media industry. He took over as publisher of Success Media and SUCCESS magazine in 2007.
The Compound Effect, a best-selling book by Darren Hardy that is still hailed by prominent critics as his finest effort to date, is what most people know him for. Hardy published The Compound Effect in 2010, a book about the effects of daily choices that also serves as a roadmap for accomplishing objectives.
He published Living Your Best Year Ever in 2011, a journaling technique for setting and achieving objectives. He wrote The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster in 2015, which describes the difficulties faced by businesses.
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Darren Hardy Motivational Quotes
1. Everything you need to be great is already inside you. Stop waiting for someone or something to light your fire. You have the match.-Darren Hardy
2. Broke people talk about people and problems. Rich people talk about ideas and goals. Your conversation chooses your destiny.-Darren Hardy
3. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.-Darren Hardy
4. The key that unlocks your greatness is deliberate, disciplined and consistent effort.-Darren Hardy
5. Small, seemingly insignificant steps completed consistently over time will create a radical difference.-Darren Hardy
6. The first step toward change is awareness. If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination.-Darren Hardy
7. A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful.-Darren Hardy
8. The highest achievers in the world have all succeeded because they mapped out their visions.-Darren Hardy
9. The activities you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success. Step into them.-Darren Hardy
10. Success is when what you THINK, SAY, and DO are the same.-Darren Hardy
11. Daily Mojo: Your main competitors are not others in your industry. Your main competitors are distractions. Don’t let them beat you – stay focused.-Darren Hardy
12. What controls your attention, controls your life.-Darren Hardy
13. If you truly want to be successful, spend less time following the lives of other people and more time leading your own.-Darren Hardy
14. We all come into this world the same: naked, scared, and ignorant. After that grand entrance, the life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make.-Darren Hardy
15. Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.-Darren Hardy
16. It’s amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.-Darren Hardy
17. Allow yourself to go and do it wrong. Don’t expect to always get it right. It will prevent you from doing anything.-Darren Hardy
18. Achievers don’t submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff-Darren Hardy
19. Success is not for those who want it, nor those who need it, but for those who are utterly determined to seize it–whatever it takes.-Darren Hardy
20. When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you’ve spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you’re now trying to change, you’ve got to expect it’s going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.
21. What’s easy to do, is also easy not to do.-Darren Hardy
22. Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.-Darren Hardy
23. All winners are trackers.-Darren Hardy
24. Starting is not most people’s problem, staying, continuing and finishing is.-Darren Hardy
25. The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.-Darren Hardy
26. Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It’s the little things in life that will bite you.-Darren Hardy
27. If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work.-Darren Hardy
28. As Jim Rohn put it to me, Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge, or you’ll become a fool. Let your learning lead to action, and you can become wealthy. There’s nothing more pitiful than a guy who is smart and broke.-Darren Hardy
29. It’s easy to be distracted by the job of growing your business. But never forget that your job as a leader is also to grow people.-Darren Hardy
30. In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you.-Darren Hardy
31. Don’t wait another day to start the small disciplines that will lead you in the direction of your goals!-Darren Hardy
32. Losing is a habit. So is winning. Now let’s work on permanently instilling winning habits into your life.-Darren Hardy
33. Knowledge is not power. That’s a myth. It is the potential for power, but it is not power itself. It’s not what you learn or what you know; it’s what you do with what you know and learn.-Darren Hardy
34. The magic comes from becoming the person you need to be in order to attract the people or results you wish to meet or achieve.-Darren Hardy
35. WAKE UP and realize that the habits you indulge in could be compounding your life into repeated disaster.-Darren Hardy
36. Look, if you’re going to get better, you have to push yourself. If you push yourself, you’re going to fall. If you’re not falling, you’re not pushing. Falling is part of getting better.-Darren Hardy
37. A good question to ask yourself before doing anything you think you fear is, If I do this, am I going to die? If the answer is no, then your fear is made up, grossly overdramatic, and it should have no power over you.-Darren Hardy
38. If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.-Darren Hardy
39. If you want to have more, you have to become more. You have to grow into your goals.-Darren Hardy
40. I had always thought of sales as a way to get something, I could now see it as a tool for giving. For the first time, I began to understand the strange, wonderful irony that sales isn’t about selling at all.-Darren Hardy
Darren Hardy Inspirational Quotes
41. When you’re creating an environment to support your goals, remember that you get in life what you tolerate.-Darren Hardy
42. There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.-Darren Hardy
43. No matter what has happened to you, take complete responsibility for it – good or bad, victory or defeat. Own it. My mentor Jim Rohn said, The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.-Darren Hardy
44. Effective sales is about finding a perceived need and helping someone fulfill it.-Darren Hardy
45. The truth is, complacency has impacted all great empires, including, but not limited to, the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. Why? Because nothing fails like success.-Darren Hardy
46. Lou Holtz, the famous football coach, knew it was what you did after you did your best that created victories.-Darren Hardy
47. According to research, it takes three hundred instances of positive reinforcement to turn a new habit into an unconscious practice – that’s almost a year of daily practice!-Darren Hardy
48. New or more information is not what you need – a new plan of action is. It’s time to create new behaviors and habits that are oriented away from sabotage and toward success.-Darren Hardy
49. Our choices are often shaped by our culture and upbringing. They can be so entwined in our routine behaviors and habits that they seem beyond our control.-Darren Hardy
50. A horse wins by a nose, but gets 10 times the price money.-Darren Hardy
51. It’s never too late to reap the benefits of the Compound Effect.-Darren Hardy
52. If you want to sail your life in a new direction, you have to first pick up the anchors of bad habits that have been weighing you down.-Darren Hardy
53. Step by step, day by day, your choices will shape your actions until they become habits, where practice makes them permanent.-Darren Hardy
54. A daily routine built on good habits is the difference that separates the most successful amongst us from everyone else.-Darren Hardy
55. If we want to succeed, we need to recover our grandparents’ work ethic.-Darren Hardy
56. Allow yourself to go and do it wrong. Don’t expect to always get it right. It will prevent you from doing anything.-Darren Hardy
57. A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else.-Darren Hardy
58. You can only control two things in life: Your attitude and your actions.-Darren Hardy
59. Track every action that relates to the area of your life you want to improve. All winners are trackers.-Darren Hardy
60. You only need to take a series of tiny steps, consistently, over time, to radically improve your life.-Darren Hardy
Darren Daily Quotes
61. You make your choices, and then your choices make you.-Darren Hardy
62. Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquitos? It’s the little things in life that will bite you.-Darren Hardy
63. Only when you’re willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work.-Darren Hardy
64. Become very conscious of every choice you make today so you can begin to make smarter choices moving forward.-Darren Hardy
65. Super small, seemingly inconsequential adjustments can and will revolutionize everything.-Darren Hardy
66. Tracking my progress and missteps is one of the reasons I’ve accumulated the success I have.-Darren Hardy
67. The power of your why is what gets you to stick through the grueling, mundane, and laborious.-Darren Hardy
68. You see, when the reason is big enough, you will be willing to perform almost any how.-Darren Hardy
69. The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not.-Darren Hardy
70. Do you know how the casinos make so much money in Vegas? Because they track every table, every winner, every hour.-Darren Hardy
71. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.
72. We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.-Darren Hardy
73. The magic is doing the simple things repeatedly and long enough to ignite the miracle of the Compound Effect.-Darren Hardy
74. The person who has a clear, compelling, and white-hot burning why will always defeat even the best of the best at doing the how.
75. It’s not the big things that add up in the end; it’s the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.-Darren Hardy
76. Some of my greatest motivation, determination, and dogged persistence came when I had an enemy to fight.-Darren Hardy
77. You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.-Darren Hardy
78. Every great act, every fantastic adventure, starts with small steps. The first step always looks harder than it actually is.-Darren Hardy
79. Momentum (Big Mo) is, without doubt, one of the most powerful and enigmatic forces of success.-Darren Hardy
80. Our need for immediate gratification can turn us into the most reactive, non-thinking animals around.-Darren Hardy
81. Tell me what everyone else does, what’s the consensus and what’s popular, and I will typically do the opposite.-Darren Hardy
82. Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits.-Darren Hardy
83. This is the story of most people’s lives; they’re riding the horse of their habits with no idea where they’re headed.-Darren Hardy
84. Our choices can deliver us to our goals or send us orbiting into a galaxy far, far away.-Darren Hardy
85. If there’s a discrepancy between what you say and what you do, I’m going to believe what you do every time.-Darren Hardy
86. It’s the frequent, small, and seemingly inconsequential choices that are of grave concern.-Darren Hardy
87. You cannot manage or improve something unless you measure it.-Darren Hardy
88. The life we end up with is simply an accumulation of all the choices we make.-Darren Hardy
89. Beware of neglecting the simple things that make the big things in your life possible.-Darren Hardy
90. The results, the life, and the lifestyle of your dreams can be yours when you put the Compound Effect to work for you.-Darren Hardy
91. Small, Smart Choices + Consistency + Time = RADICAL DIFFERENCE.-Darren Hardy
92. You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.-Darren Hardy
93. Success is the result of small, smart choices, completed consistently over time.-Darren Hardy
94. Isn’t it comforting to know you only need to take a series of tiny steps, consistently overtime, to radically improve your life?-Darren Hardy
95. I want you to know in your bones that your only path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time.-Darren Hardy
96. The key is to make your why-power so strong that it overwhelms your urges for instant gratification.-Darren Hardy
97. You can’t make the most of who you are – your talents, resources and capabilities – until you are aware and accountable for your actions.-Darren Hardy
98. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning.-Darren Hardy
99. It’s time to WAKE UP and realize that the habits you indulge in could be compounding your life into repeated disaster.-Darren Hardy
100. Without a motivating fight, we can become fat and lazy; we lose our strength and purpose.-Darren Hardy