Quotes About Success

Rogers's strategy paid off as far as the Buffalo imbroglio was concerned.)

Having known many rich people, Gates was impressed that Rockefeller had no private yachts or railroad cars.

Rockefeller knew that he now needed a larger and more efficient method for disposing of his fortune.

John D. Rockefeller was the Protestant work ethic in its purest form, leading a life so consistent with Weber's classic essay that it reads like his spiritual biography.

He preferred to portray his fortune as a pleasant accident, the unsought by-product of hard work.

That is, the man who would be rich must be thrifty.

A man who succeeds in life must sometimes go against the current.

As Rockefeller moved into retirement, his wealth was accumulating at an astonishing rate.

ad John D. Rockefeller died in 1902, at the outset of the Tarbell series, he would be known today almost exclusively as a narrow man of swashbuckling brilliance in business

At one point, Bill suggested that if John didn't find work he might have to return to the country; the thought of such dependence upon his father made "a cold chill" run down his spine, Rockefeller later said.27 Because he approached his job hunt devoid of any doubt or self-pity, he could stare down all discouragement. "I was working every day at my business—the business of looking for work. I put in my full time at this every day.

There was now a self-perpetuating quality to his wealth.

whereas Rockefeller brought a rational spirit to the business, and this counted among his greatest contributions.

Nobody ever accused Gates of thinking small.

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.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Great things can be accomplished, when it doesnt matter who gets the credit.

What of all the entrepreneurs that fail? Well, many do, particularly the successful ones; often several times. And if you ask them the secret of their success, they'll tell you it's all that they learned in their struggles along the way; yes, it's what they learned from failing.

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

El éxito es un atributo de la mirada de los demás.

La fama es la versión más barata, inestable y artificial del triunfo.

One of the reasons we come to feel guilty is that we move away from the cross and a desire to please God and live instead for the approval of others. Families have rules, our culture has rules, and the church often has hidden agendas. Our society encourages us to be successful, but if we live by a success/failure model rather than under the authority of Christ, we wound our consciences.