Quotes About Achievement

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Tomorrow - your reward for working safely today.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

If we define a good school as one that serves all children equally well and effectively, we might as well concede there is no such thing as a good school and never will be.

Expertise is achieved only after working hard on hard problems.

Still,' whispered Jack, 'you have to keep at it. Overcome the miseries of vomiting and the whirling pit. Pay your dues and work towards the real rewards of big-time adult drinking. Something to look forward to.

If you've never experienced the misery of failure, the chances are pretty good that you haven't tried very hard to succeed. I've never met anyone who has made it to the top—and managed to stay there—who didn't first taste the bitterness of defeat, usually many defeats.

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

All your dreams can come true. It s not easy but not impossible either.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher.

Contemporaries knew him as the man with the bulging brief-case, hurrying from one place, one meeting, to another. His life was embedded in a dense mass of miscellaneous activities which both fertilized and distracted him from his writing. His failure to produce a major work of theory till 1930, when he was almost 50, was the price he paid.

I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

A can-do attitude, a positive personality, and a strong work ethic are still the primary ingredients for success at Nordstrom.

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

Twenty percent of any given group of salesmen will always produce 80 percent of the sales.

Getting there isn't half the fun, it's all the fun.

They did it," the man said.

This derisive aspect of the voice contributes to the empty feeling or the sensation of being let down that many people notice after they achieve an unusual success.