export interface Quote { text: string; author: string; } export const businessQuotes: Quote[] = [ // Steve Jobs quotes { text: "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.", author: "Steve Jobs" }, { text: "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.", author: "Steve Jobs" }, { text: "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.", author: "Steve Jobs" }, // Entrepreneurs and CEOs { text: "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.", author: "Bill Gates" }, { text: "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.", author: "Walt Disney" }, { text: "Opportunities don't happen. You create them.", author: "Chris Grosser" }, { text: "The best way to predict the future is to create it.", author: "Peter Drucker" }, { text: "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.", author: "Jim Rohn" }, { text: "Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.", author: "Tony Hsieh" }, { text: "It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.", author: "Scott Belsky" }, { text: "If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.", author: "Jeff Bezos" }, // Persistence and growth { text: "The secret of getting ahead is getting started.", author: "Mark Twain" }, { text: "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.", author: "Winston Churchill" }, { text: "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.", author: "Sam Levenson" }, { text: "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.", author: "Eleanor Roosevelt" }, { text: "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.", author: "Martin Luther King Jr." }, // Risk and innovation { text: "The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.", author: "Mark Zuckerberg" }, { text: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.", author: "Thomas Edison" }, { text: "What would you do if you weren't afraid?", author: "Sheryl Sandberg" }, { text: "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.", author: "Henry Ford" }, { text: "If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.", author: "Reid Hoffman" }, // Quality and execution { text: "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.", author: "Vidal Sassoon" }, { text: "Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.", author: "Jack Dorsey" }, { text: "There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.", author: "Seth Godin" }, { text: "Always deliver more than expected.", author: "Larry Page" }, { text: "Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.", author: "Ryan Freitas" }, // Teamwork and determination { text: "No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.", author: "Reid Hoffman" }, { text: "If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.", author: "Anonymous" }, { text: "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.", author: "John Wooden" }, { text: "The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.", author: "Peter Thiel" }, // Additional quotes - Vision and leadership { text: "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.", author: "Warren Bennis" }, { text: "A goal without a plan is just a wish.", author: "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry" }, { text: "Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.", author: "Jack Welch" }, // Additional quotes - Risk, failure, and learning { text: "Fail often so you can succeed sooner.", author: "Tom Kelley" }, { text: "Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.", author: "Drew Houston" }, { text: "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.", author: "Albert Einstein" }, { text: "Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.", author: "Howard Schultz" }, // Additional quotes - Action and hustle { text: "Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.", author: "Guy Kawasaki" }, { text: "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.", author: "Henry David Thoreau" }, { text: "Done is better than perfect.", author: "Sheryl Sandberg" }, { text: "Action is the foundational key to all success.", author: "Pablo Picasso" }, // Additional quotes - Customer and product { text: "People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it.", author: "Simon Sinek" }, { text: "The customer is the most important part of the production line.", author: "W. Edwards Deming" }, { text: "Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell yourself.", author: "Naval Ravikant" }, // Additional quotes - Resilience and mindset { text: "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.", author: "Winston Churchill" }, { text: "Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.", author: "Henry Ford" }, { text: "Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.", author: "Napoleon Hill" }, { text: "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", author: "Theodore Roosevelt" }, // Additional quotes - Money and value { text: "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.", author: "Albert Einstein" }, { text: "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.", author: "Warren Buffett" }, ]; // For backward compatibility with existing code export const quotes = businessQuotes; export default businessQuotes; /** * Returns a random business quote from the collection */ export function getRandomQuote(): Quote { const randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * businessQuotes.length); return businessQuotes[randomIndex]; } /** * Returns a random quote by a specific author if available, * otherwise returns a random quote from any author */ export function getRandomQuoteByAuthor(author: string): Quote { const authorQuotes = businessQuotes.filter(quote => quote.author.toLowerCase() === author.toLowerCase() ); if (authorQuotes.length === 0) { return getRandomQuote(); } const randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * authorQuotes.length); return authorQuotes[randomIndex]; } /** * Returns quotes filtered by a theme or keyword in the text */ export function getQuotesByTheme(keyword: string): Quote[] { return businessQuotes.filter(quote => quote.text.toLowerCase().includes(keyword.toLowerCase()) ); }