Quotes About Success

Many a Man would have been worse, if his Estate had been better.19

John Adams told him. "And if you do not rise . . . to the head of your country, it will be owing to your own Laziness, Slovenliness, and Obstinancy." 65

You've done loads of good things, Millie - I'm not quite sure how exactly, but things often go wonderfully right in the end for you

lines to anyone caught sneaking in before the bell!' Mildred flew over the gates and landed expertly on the other side. 'Well, that's a good start!' she thought, looking around in the hope that someone had witnessed so successful a landing, but of course they hadn't. People were only ever

For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view.

Why choose to fail when success is an option?

Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?

A fan of L.A. Law reruns and Law & Order, she'd put lawyer down on the list, hung up the phone, and taken the LSAT. Four years of night school and a shitload of student loans later, she was an attorney.

The appointments secretary had taken Kilduff by the arm and pointed to the broad back of Lyndon Johnson. "He's got what he wants now,

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.

Droga do chwa?y zaczyna si? od jednego kroku. Podobnie jak droga na szafot.

Another problem with concentrating on money and power as a mission and purpose is that you're scorekeeping, and scorekeeping means you're thinking about results over which you have no real control.

We greatly enhance our opportunity for a successful deal by putting the adversary first in our mission and purpose. You make your killing—or just a solid profit—only by entering heart and soul into your adversary's world, business, needs, requirements, hopes, fears, and plans.

Discipline is difficult. But without discipline, you will never be a great negotiator.

I have seen that the failure to set manageable goals is as common a mistake as any other. People get confused because they don't have a step-by-step plan. They casually talk about goals and results, or objectives, but they don't really know how to distinguish between them.

It's too easy to sell or not sell fifty widgets this week, or to sign or fail to sign the contract with your supplier. It's much more difficult to behave and act at all times in a disciplined, systematic way. But this is what you must do in order to achieve what you're capable of.

Winning isn't everything, but the will to prepare to win is everything.

My purpose here isn't to elevate your success regardless, but simply to provide you with the opportunity to do so.

Goals you can control, objectives you cannot. By following your behavioral goals, you get to your objectives.

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

But, you know, you can't be a star at home.