Quotes About Success

You cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair

The secret of survival is to embrace change and to adapt. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

He kept looking for new experiences, and though he was very successful at everything he attempted, it did not bring him happiness. Remember this, success alone does not bring happiness. Nor does failure have to bring unhappiness.

Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop my desires and sorrows from being violent ones); what impels me, secretly and obstinately, is not tactical: I accept and I affirm, irrespective of the true and the false, of success and failure; I am withdrawn from all finality, I live according to chance...

This would be the structure of the successful couple: a little prohibition, a good deal of play; to designate desire and then to leave it alone, like those obliging natives who show you the path but don't insist on accompanying you on your way.

No habría familias si no hubiera algunas exitosas!)

It is more than a framework for evaluation. It is a framework for motivation and a framework for achievement.

He downplayed the significance of technical knowledge in business. "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.

Daring in design, cautious in execution—it was a formula he made his own throughout his career.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the former. There's far less competition. (Dwight Morrow)

Seven months after Grant's death, Julia received a whopping $200,000 check from Twain and $450,000 in the end—an astonishing sum for book royalties at the time. No previous book had ever sold so many copies in such a short period of time, and it rivaled that other literary sensation of the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Clearly Grant had emerged victorious in his last uphill battle.

Hamilton's life was so tumultuous that only an audacious novelist could have dreamed it up. He embodied an enduring archetype: the obscure immigrant who comes to America, re-creates himself, and succeeds despite a lack of proper birth and breeding.

Taking for granted the growth of his empire, he hired talented people as found, not as needed.

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

Already so flush that he had invested in his first railroad stock, with cash to spare for the firm, Rockefeller was far more receptive.

The most perplexing issue for Rockefeller was how to square philanthropy with self-reliance.

Had she stayed in business, she would have been bankrupt within a few years.

all looking up at the windows of J. P. Morgan & Co.

From the outset, Rockefeller had to wrestle with the demons of pride and greed.

Rockefeller tended to portray himself as a hard-driving executive who went as far as the law allowed but not an inch further.

When rebuffed by a bank officer for a loan, he shot back in anger, "Some day I'll be the richest man in the world.

Since he never owned more than a third of his company, he needed the cooperation of other people.