Getting motivated in business is not always easy. It doesn't matter how many qualifications you have on your CV, how much experience you have or how high the figure on your payslip is. If you want to stay successful, you have to stay motivated. Here is a list of quotes from successful people to get you in the right frame of mind for consistent achievement.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Colin Powell

You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Steve Jobs

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

Mark Twain

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Robert H. Schuller

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Thomas Edison

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Walt Disney

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

Stephen Covey

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

Ray Kroc

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Henry Ford

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vidal Sassoon

Rupert Murdoch is one of global business' most divisive figures. The Australian-American magnate inherited the News Limited business in 1952 and turned it into what is now known as News Corporation, the world's second largest media conglomerate. With television stations, publishing houses and newspapers in the UK, Australia, the USA and Papua New Guinea, it is an extraordinarily powerful enterprise that came from humble beginnings. Along with his exorbitant wealth, Murdoch has garnered plenty of criticism and controversy over the years, yet he remains one of the most skilful strategists and canny investors in world business. That makes these quotes from him essential reading for any business person with big ambitions.

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

Bury your mistakes.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world.

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

News Corp is a global diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers and businesses throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia and pay-TV distribution in Australia.

Pop-up marketing has nothing to do with those ads that jump up on your screen when you click on website that you can't close fast enough. Rather, it is a grass roots way to connect with your target market that is low-risk, high-impact and, comparatively, low-cost. It is also becoming increasingly popular and any smart business person should be, at least, considering its potential for their product.

A good example of a successful pop-up shop is the one recently run by broadband provider TalkTalk. Its campaign involved setting up a pop-up store in London, staffed by none other than David Dickinson, celebrity antiques dealer. This kind of quirky, memorable, real-life connection with a product that had, up until now, appeared to entirely exist online, has a real, long-lasting effect on the customer. It puts a friendly face on a previously faceless company in a way TV and web advertising cannot.

If you are working in a competitive industry, this kind of campaign will really make you stand out from the crowd. This is not just good advice for the new kids on the block, looking to make its name in a crowded marketplace full of better known competitors, but also for the established brand with a firm following of loyal customers.

Pop-up stores give those who have no experience of your products a chance to engage with them in a manner that is unique, quick and fun. They also allow you to introduce a new service in a way that underlines its importance – by dedicating a pop up store to your latest product, it creates an image in the customers mind that this is a major announcement and a big-time release.

The last few years has seen some truly impressive, imaginative and clever pop up stores all around the world. For example, coffee company Illy placed a store inside a huge crate that opened up on the pavement to reveal a fully furnished living room, while upmarket chocolate makers Godiva celebrated last Valentine's Day by popping up a boutique on New York's 5th Avenue.

A sign of how pervasive pop up marketing is becoming is that New York subway stations are now offering leases for companies that want to set up a short term store to catch commuter traffic.

In 2017, pop up stores may well be the biggest thing in branding.

Today, business marketing and social media are intertwined like never before. Just about every company, in every industry, attempts to get in contact with its customer based through these platforms. For new products or companies in emergent industries, the way they use social media can be the difference between success and failure.

Looking back 2013 was probably the take off year of visual social media, with more and more platforms encouraging video and photograph sharing through their sites. This lead to brands big and small across the globe tying themselves in knots trying to create visual content that had the ability to go viral.

So what will be the big trends? And how can your business take advantage of them? Here are two key areas to look out for.

Existing media will disappear

The crucial element that supports all social media, and has supported it since its inception, is hipness. People love it because it is cool. This is great for the smart business, as aligning yourself with and using a social media platform well before it becomes ultra-fashionable will strengthen your status as a cool brand.

Unfortunately, this also means that social media platforms come in and out of fashion very quickly. Also, once they go out of style they are unlikely to come back. This year, that is likely to happen at a rate quicker than ever before. Look out for the emerging as opposed to the established social media apps and sites and ask yourself how your brand can benefit from using them.

Blogging will become an art form

While bloggers have always taken themselves very seriously (in fact, some might say, too seriously), the rest of the media has not always agreed. Now, however, there is no question that a well written blog has just as much chance of reaching a wide audience as a newspaper article.

So, what does this mean for the company trying to get is name out there on the web? Well, first off, the expectation people have for blogs are greater than ever. No more will the average web user accept poor spelling and weak presentation just becomes your writing online. Secondly, with the competition so fierce, your blog needs to be more entertaining and smarter than ever to get attention.