Quotes About Achievement

Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

Too much success is the enemy, too much failure is demoralizing.

It is much easier to sell "Look what I did for you" than "Look what I avoided for you.

wealth does not count so much into one's well-being as the route one uses to get to it.

They will envy you for your success, for your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status—but rarely for your wisdom.

If the student is smart, the teacher takes the credit.

Writers are remembered for their best work, politicians for their worst mistakes, and businessmen are almost never remembered.

from the reference point of the winner (and, who does not, and this is key, take the losers into account), a long string of wins will appear to be too extraordinary an occurrence to be explained by luck. Note

It was calculated that actors who win an Oscar tend to live on average about five years longer than their peers who don't.

others paid by the hour are not there yet.

Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don't talk.

The fact that he did not experience John's success was the reason he did not suffer his downfall.

Nero believes that risk-conscious hard work and discipline can lead someone to achieve a comfortable life with a very high probability. Beyond that, it is all randomness: either by taking enormous (and unconscious) risks, or by being extraordinarily lucky. Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

Have you ever wondered why so many of these straight-A students end up going nowhere in life while someone who lagged behind is now getting the shekels, buying the diamonds

I will retire on these profits

jealousy is to be found within the same art, talent, and condition.*10

That all millionaires were persistent, hardworking people does not make persistent hard workers become millionaires:

It's much easier to sell "Look what I did for you" than "Look what I avoided for you.

10 million earned through Russian roulette does not have the same value as $10 million earned through the diligent and artful practice of dentistry.

So what counts is the payoff from success.

Those who go the extra mile are rewarded.

He will die with the impression of having done nothing useful.

Wealth does not count so much into one's well-being as the route one uses to get to it.