Quotes About Success

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.

Concerns about relative position are a hard fact of human nature. No biologist is surprised that they loom so large in human psychology, since relative position was always by far the best predictor of reproductive success. People who didn't care how well they were doing in relative terms would have been ill-equipped for the competitive environments in which we evolved. Few parents, on reflection, would want their children to be stripped of positional concerns completely.

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

have been blessed because I have been poor—poor enough to swallow my pride and humbly ask for assistance. The result? Not merely success in reaching my occupational goals, but lasting friendships with those who saved the day for me. So, don't become defensive about your lack by trying to gloss over it or pretending the problem doesn't exist. Chances are that such an attitude will end in futility and you'll

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

There are men who, at the bottom of the ladder, battle to rise; they study, struggle, keep their wits alive and eventually get up to a place where they are received as an equal among respectable intellectuals. Here they find warmth and comfort for their pride, and here the struggle ends, and a death of many years commences. They could have gone on living.

It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

No pains. No gains

If little labour, little are our gains; Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

You may be cool under pressure and challenge, but can you be cool under success?

It also reflects a tendency in our society to focus on negatives. Doctors, for instance, study illness, not health. Business leaders analyse failure, not success. Economists study cost, not value. Philosophers mostly debate original sin, not original blessing.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

Harry S. Truman said, "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

And the most talented people in every occupation have huge advantages over their ordinary peers. Dean Keith Simonton, who studies greatness and genius, finds that whether it comes to songwriters, composers, scientists, programmers, or filmmakers, the top 10 percent generate as much or more output than the other 90 percent.

If you want a creative organization, inaction is the worst kind of failure.

The fourth big lesson is that scaling starts and ends with individuals—success depends on the will and skill of people at every level of an organization.

Performance and humanity are the goals that great bosses aim to achieve. Yet the best bosses devote little energy to thinking about how great it would be to reach these goals, worrying if they can, or even celebrating when they do.