Quotes About Success

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.

I didn't get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

Employees take weekends off, entrepreneurs dont.

Even if your company is experiencing good times now, the business will eventually be at risk if the leadership culture is not strong or aligned.

Seek out incremental wins. Instead of immediately revolutionizing the company, start small and crush a few things first; once you've earned trust, you will garner bigger responsibilities and influence.

Create your inner circle. Identify four to five irreplaceable, intentional mentors in your life and formally develop those relationships; choose people who already have a vested interest in your success.

If securing some mentors and being one yourself are not already on your leadership list of things to do, let's get at it. It's too important for your career to ignore.

We focused instead on helping them to manage their energy more effectively in the service of whatever mission they were on.

Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance.

With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp.

So many people postpone joy until they have achieved.

business life. Believe it or not, they're more important to your future than the president of your company. This bit of knowledge has always seemed obvious, yet many new managers spend almost all their time planning their upward communication and give only a passing glance to the people who really control their future.

There's no way you can convince a conventional military thinker that the price of success in guerilla war is pig shit. They'll accept casualties, privation, hunger, death, destruction, murder and the CIA. But they won't accept unshined belt buckles and they damn sure won't accept pig shit.

Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss

The truth is that trading, both successful and unsuccessful, is more about psychology than tactics.

The lesson here is: Taking either success or failure personally means, by definition, that your ego has become involved and you are in jeopardy of incurring losses due to psychological factors.

the rise sets up the fall; the winning sets up the losing

People fail for the most part because they shoot themselves in the foot. If you go for a long time without shooting yourself in the foot, other people start calling you a genius.

One investor's two rules of investing: Never lose money. Never forget rule #1. (Warren Buffett)

Personalizing successes sets people up for disastrous failure. They begin to treat the success as a personal reflection rather than the result of capitalizing on a good opportunity, being at the right place at the right time, or even being just plain lucky.

Success can be built upon repeated failues when the failures aren't taken personally; likewise, failure can be built upon repeated successes when the successes are taken personally.

If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!