Quotes About Success

Success means following a good decision process, not just crossing a finish line, especially if it is the wrong one to cross. That means appropriately following kill criteria, listening to our quitting coaches, and recognizing that the progress we've made along the way counts for a lot.

Finish lines are funny things. You either reach them or you don't. You either succeed or you fail. There is no in between. Progress along the way matters very little.

Being in the losses is as much a state of mind as anything else. We don't see ourselves as being in the gains, even though we've gone farther than where we started, because we're not measuring ourselves by how far we are past the starting line. We're measuring ourselves by whether we're short of the finish line.

Progress along the way should count for something, but we discard it because goals are pass-fail, all-or-nothing, yes-or-no. There's no partial credit given.

might have been absurd, but I was making the point that a necessary part of succeeding in poker is to fold some hands that might have won. To be good at the game you just have to learn to live with that. Playing every hand you are dealt is an easy and fast way to go broke since you would be playing too many hands that aren't profitable in the long run.

But there is one aphorism that actually encourages people to quit: Quit while you're ahead. Just as so many of those inspirational quotes lauding unlimited persistence are bad advice, this single piece of pro-quitting wisdom, despite surviving for more than four hundred years, is no better.

The real advice we should give people is more complicated than you can fit in a four-word slogan: Quit while you're ahead . . . when the game you are playing or the path you are on is a losing proposition. If you are in a situation that carries with it a negative expected value, by all means quit. But keep going when you have a positive expected value.

It's not just that we need to set more flexible goals. We ourselves also need to be more flexible in the way we evaluate success and failure.

All these famous people, and countless others, have united behind variations of the expression "Quitters never win, and winners never quit.

Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

We either get success or lessons. If we learn our lessons successfully, we get both.

Limitation has success . . . . Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man; if they existed, his life would only dissolve in the boundless. To become strong a man's life needs the limitations ordained by duty and voluntarily accepted.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.

Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by an occasional miracle

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it.

Count that day lost whose low descending sun. Views from thy hand no worthy action done.

And remember that behind every successful woman is a basket of dirty laundry.

American Express? . . . That'll do nicely, sir.

"Dead last" is greater than "did not finish" which trumps "did not start."

Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.

Live well. It is the greatest revenge.