Quotes About Achievement

It's not an accident that school is like a job, not an accident that there are supervisors and rules and tests and quality control. You do well, you get another job (the next grade), and continue to do well and you get a real job. Do poorly, don't fit in, rebel—and you are kicked out of the system.

real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

If you want to be a superstar, then you need to find a field with a steep Dip—a barrier between those who try and those who succeed.

The essential thing to know about the Dip is that it's there. Knowing that you're facing a Dip is the first step in getting through it.

When you're the best in the world, you share the benefits (the income, the attention, the privileges, the respect) with just a handful of people or organizations or brands.

Most of the time, we deal with the obstacles by persevering. Sometimes we get discouraged and turn to inspirational writing, like stuff from Vince Lombardi: "Quitters never win and winners never quit." Bad advice. Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.

Great jobs, world-class jobs, jobs people kill for—those jobs don't get filled by people e-mailing in résumés. Google

If you're trying to succeed in a job or a relationship or at a task, you're either moving forward, falling behind, or standing still. There are only three choices. To

Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.

The second reason there are such tremendous benefits to being number one is a little more subtle. Being at the top matters because there's room at the top for only a few.

Produsul meu este pentru oamenii care cred _____. M? voi concentra pe cei care doresc ____. Promit c? produsul meu v? va ajuta s? ob?ine?i ____. ?i tu credeai c? e?ti aici doar ca s? vinzi s?pun.

If I fail more times than you, I win.

If you want to be a superstar, then you need to find a field with a steep Dip—a barrier between those who try and those who succeed. And you've got to get through that Dip to the other side. This isn't for everyone. If it were, there'd be no superstars.

It's always hard part that makes value

The first step is write down the due date. Post it on the wall. It's real. You will ship on this date, done or not.

You are not your résumé. You are your work.

Attempt to create only one significant work a year.

The difference between a successful artist and a failed one happens after the idea is hatched. The difference is the race to completion. Did you finish?

If you can get through the Dip, if you can keep going when the system is expecting you to stop, you will achieve extraordinary results. People who make it through the Dip are scarce indeed, so they generate more value.

The job is not the work.

Perfect closes the door. It asserts that we're done, that this is the best we can do. Worse, perfect forbids us to try. To seek perfection and not reach it is a failure.

The Dip is the reason you're here. It's not enough to survive your way through this Dip. You get what you deserve when you embrace the Dip and treat it like the opportunity that it really is.

If there wasn't a Dip, there'd be no scarcity.

If you can bring someone belonging, connection, peace of mind, status, or one of the other most desired emotions, you've done something worthwhile. The thing you sell is simply a road to achieve those emotions, and we let everyone down when we focus on the tactics, not the outcomes.