Quotes About Achievement

Anybody who seeks wealth as an end in itself is always going to be disappointed. What you really should be doing is seeking excellence in achievement.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. He has walked in our shoes.

Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

There's a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful.

People who are passionate about what they do reach financial comfort and wealth more often than those who are not. That argues for doing one of two things. Finding your passion and pursuing it. Or becoming passionate about what you're already pursuing.

For most Indians in America, wealth is not inherited. Neither do we make it as heads of large hedge funds and private equity funds. For us to make it to the top, we have to use our knowhow to create great new technology products and build high-tech companies.

Health is your greatest wealth, so experiencing a marathon and seeing what you're capable of is really special.

There was a time in my life when I was independently wealthy.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

Look, I'm not saying you can't make it if you grew up from a wealthy situation. I mean, a ton of people have.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

Hard work pays off. But it doesn't stop now. I know I'm generational wealthy, as you can say, but still got business to handle.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

I think I've been a moderately good boss. I've made a lot of people extremely wealthy - I think we've created 30 millionaires.

I need all my kids to be educated and wealthy.

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.