Quotes About Achievement

When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, 'I want to be like him.' This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners.

When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive the prize and one of only 11 female winners in its history. Her award was the end of a very long journey from a remote farm in Rhodesia to a banquet at Stockholm's Stadshus, the grand city hall in Stockholm.

The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.

Global competition is about winners and losers.

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

I think I pick more winners than losers.

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.

I've ridden 3,651 winners, if that's any good to you. I don't count the falls. I count the winners.

The Hamptons are filled with people who are winners Monday through Friday.

The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers.

I won some winners' medals with Lancashire - a NatWest trophy and a couple of Sunday Leagues.

Every time a medal is won on the national or international platform, our country really enjoys winners but we don't appreciate the effort that goes into creating winners.

The guys that go into the Hall of Fame are the winners, and the losers are the ones who put them in there, and I would like to see some of the great losers through the years be in the Hall of Fame. I know that that's probably impossible, but you've got to give those losers credit, they made the winners.

There's no second-place winners in this league.

I love working with Oscar winners.

A lot of people talk about the one-and-done attitude of college athletes, but if you look at the University of Kentucky, we do build winners.

That's something I learned at Lyon: how humble and grounded the best players in the world are. They're always wanting more. At Lyon, they're winners. At England, it's the same.

Rankings aren't that important to me. I want a winners' medal.

You cannot underestimate Zidane's achievement of winning the Champions League three times in a row - it must have taken superb skills to motivate the likes of Ronaldo, Luka Modric, Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema et al to have the desire to become serial Champions League winners.

I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.

I never dreamed when I was competing at The Championships that I would one day be interviewing the winners on Centre Court for the BBC.

A lot of people hate winners.

People love winners.

You dream of scoring hat-tricks and scoring last minute winners when you are young.