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Quotes About Achievement

just to gloat at mum and dad's golden girl brought low. But
~ David Nicholls
Getting what you go after is success. Liking it while getting there is happiness.
~ David O'Brien
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
~ David O. McKay
I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.
~ David O. Russell
It is a good idea to start the year by writing down exactly what you want to accomplish, and end the year by measuring how much you have accomplished. McKinsey imposes this discipline on its partners and pays them according to how many of the things on their lists they accomplish. Leadership
~ David Ogilvy
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.' Pursuit
~ David Ogilvy
I like to succeed in public, but to fail in secret.
~ David Ogilvy
In my Confessions, I told how I started by making a list of the clients I most wanted – General Foods, Lever Brothers, Bristol Myers, Campbell Soup Company and Shell. It took time, but in due course I got them all, plus American Express, Sears Roebuck, IBM, Morgan Guaranty, Merrill Lynch and a few others, including
~ David Ogilvy
Leo Burnett said it better, 'When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
~ David Ogilvy
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.
~ David Ogilvy
Concentrate your time, your brains, and your advertising money on your successes. Back your winners, and abandon your losers.
~ David Ogilvy
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
~ David Ogilvy
As time goes on, she falls further behind in terms of social skills and achievements. As she gets older and her body continues to grow, she is placed in an ever more frightening position with increasing social expectations. Instead of allowing a complex, rich, and confident identity to emerge, she is left with a mostly unconscious wounded self and a childlike, need-driven personality.
~ David P. Celani
You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do.
~ David Packard
A group of people get together and exist as an institution we call a company so they are able to accomplish something collectively that they could not accomplish separately – they make a contribution to society, a phrase which sounds trite but is fundamental.
~ David Packard
You get nothing for coming second, son. Because if you are second, you are nothing. You are nowhere – First is first. Second is nowhere.
~ David Peace
Because there is no fucking consolation- No consolation for not winning- That's irreplaceable.
~ David Peace
Because this is the first thing you have ever won and, like your first pair of boots, your first kiss and your first car, you'll never forget the hours of this day.
~ David Peace
The difference between the life you have and the life you envision is equal to the distance between perfection and reality. I had
~ David R. Dow
Force can bring satisfaction, but only power brings joy. Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.
~ David R. Hawkins
If we suddenly become successful almost effortlessly, then people are envious. It really annoys them that we didn't have to go through all kinds of anguish, pain, and suffering to get there. Their mind believes that such anguish is the cost that must be paid for success.
~ David R. Hawkins
Instead, he defined individualism as the freedom to achieve and the obligation to return something of value to the community that had nurtured and sustained him. I believe this was both the source and object of his philanthropy. As
~ David Rockefeller
As Lucy says, "Winning isn't everything; winning big is!" Most of us need to win big. The problem, however, is that there seems to be a law of diminishing returns: the bigger wins give a decreasing measure of satisfaction.
~ David Roper
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
~ David Sarnoff