Quotes About Success

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. 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.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Creo que todo el mundo debería hacerse rico y famoso y conseguir lo que siempre ha soñado para darse cuenta de que no es la solución

Determined people working together can do anything.

Think like the person you intend to become.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

The good-to-great leaders never wanted to become larger-than-life heroes. They never aspired to be put on a pedestal or become unreachable icons. They were seemingly ordinary people quietly producing extraordinary results.

Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" If you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably engaged in the wrong line of work.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.

The champion wins first, then walks into the arena. Everybody else walks into the arena and then tries to figure out what to do.

When we do discipline without showing frustration, the odds for success increase in a very big way.

Kids with parents who are less concerned about their flunking and more concerned about giving their kids an opportunity to think about flunking develop kids who think and rarely flunk. Their parents aren't going to worry about it, so they'd better.

It's not how you start that's important, but how you finish!

Their dog, the dog that no one wanted, the pit bull that a 'no kill' shelter had wanted to kill, had outrun, out-jumped, out-hustled, and out-hearted all the herding dogs and retrievers and shepherds. In not just one event, but in a grueling series of games and contests that tested every aspect of a dog's abilities. Wallace was a world champion.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

A traditional project manager focuses on following the plan with minimal changes, whereas an agile leader focuses on adapting successfully to inevitable changes.

The formula for success is simple: deliver today, adapt tomorrow.

If we want to build great products, we need great people. If we want to attract and keep great people, we need great principles.