Quotes About Achievement

Grant had overwhelmingly won the electoral vote, and had garnered the largest popular majority of the century, nearly 56 percent of the vote, the biggest percentage between Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt.

Rockefeller seemed destined to succeed as much from his fastidious work habits as from innate intelligence.

It was symptomatic of Jack's humility and his insecurity that when he made an exciting discovery in his laboratory, he chalked it off it to luck.

Another explanation is that while he was persistent, he was also extremely slow; as at school, some people thought him a rather dim-witted dolt who would never rise in the world, and he had to prove himself to naysayers.

He presumably felt that, having built the structure, he had earned the right to occupy it free of rent

Mr. Rockefeller may have made himself the richest man in the world, but he has paid.

It proved to be the luckiest stroke of his career.

He made them all wealthy beyond their dreams.

Rockefeller now left Andrew Carnegie far behind and probably had at least twice as much money as Carnegie did.

I never felt the need of scientific knowledge, have never felt it. A young man who wants to succeed in business does not require chemistry or physics. He can always hire scientists.

61 Pierpont's fortune didn't approach those of the great industrialists—Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, or Harriman—and he didn't quite edge out Jay Gould.

His victory over the Cleveland refiners would be the first but also the most controversial campaign of his career.

Potts aspired to be Rockefeller's equal.

Hamilton did not know it, but he just wrote himself out of poverty.

When the XYZ papers were published, they proved a bonanza for the Federalists, and John Adams attained the zenith of his popularity as president.

The self-control was something achieved, not inherited, and often masked combustible emotions that could explode in fury.

and awaited instructions.

winning at any cost.

He never seemed to take great pleasure in his accomplishments, and for the rest of his life, he craved a restful but elusive peace.

That this abominable childhood produced such a strong, productive, self-reliant human-being - that this fatherless adolescent could have ended up a founding father of a country he had not yet even seen - seems little short of miraculous.

For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.

It was the launch of an unprecedented career. (He would go on to publish more books than any other author, according to the 2006 Guinness World Records, with 1,084 titles.)

I've defined myself, privately and publicly, by my brief, intense years as an athlete, a swimmer. I practices five or six hours a day, six days a week, eating and sleeping as much as possible. Weekends were either spent training or competing. I wasn't the best; I was relatively fast...

Nothing of value was ever achieved in the morning.