Quotes About Achievement

Jim Collins, author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… And Others Don't

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There are roughly 28 million firms in the US, of which only 4% ever reach more than $1 million in revenue. Of those firms, only about one out of 10, or 0.4% of all companies, ever make it to $10 million in revenue, and only 17,000 companies surpass $50 million. Finishing out the list, the top 2,500 firms in the US are larger than $500 million, and the top 500 public and private firms exceed $5 billion. Data indicate that there are similar ratios in other countries.

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las metas sin rutinas son deseos, las rutinas sin metas no tienen sentido.

Got what you needed?" he asked over his shoulder. Not quite, but Rome wasn't built in a day.

General George S. Patton may have been uncouth, but he wasn't wrong when he bellowed, "Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.

In some sense, winning against impossible odds—when most others cannot or would not try—is the only mark of a great general.

Rommel soon enjoyed almost mystical status among his Africa Korps troops, bringing to mind Virgil's famous comment on improbable achievement: "Possunt, quia posse videntur" ("They can, because they think they can," Aeneid 5.231).

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement. When we are no longer able to change a situation... we are challenged to change ourselves.

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

Do we ever realize our fondest dreams?

I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.

Running beer gathers no foam.

Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.

Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Die Wissenschaft muss mit glatten Wangen begonnen werden und nicht erst mit runzeligen, wenn man in ihr etwas erreichen will.

Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be fortunate and you will be thought great.

We live in a sad society. Succeed--that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption. In passing, we might say that success is a hideous thing. Its false similarity to merit deceives men.