Quotes About Success

Maureen couldn't be kept out of the kitchen, asking Preacher and Paige a lot of questions about the operation of the bar and while doing so, holding their new baby. Luke peeked into the kitchen to see what she was up to and got the hell out of there before she started harping on the fact that she had five healthy, handsome, successful sons and no grandchildren. Maureen

Nobody ever won a race by standing at the starting line.

Austin believes that winning or losing in binary is meaningless when there's a high score to beat.

It was like Latham: sometimes the point wasn't being the best, because it didn't mean you had the best life, or the best friends, or the best time.

Achievement unlocked.

Christianity has become a secondary foundation in people's lives, not the main foundation. Now it's all about career, material success, and one's standing in society.

Competitors must be monitored, but never mimicked

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Just remember: It's lonely at the top, when there's no one on the bottom.

Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. Sitting in the stands, we sense this, if only dimly. The players below us—Mays, DiMaggio, Ruth, Snodgrass—swim and blur in memory, the ball floats over to Terry Turner, and the end of this game may never come.

The feeling of letdown, of puzzled astonishment, persists, particularly in this neighborhood, where we have come to expect a more lavish and satisfactory autumnal show from our hosts, the Yankees, the rich family up on the hill. There has been a good deal of unpleasant chatter ("I always knew they were really cheap," "What else can you expect from such stuckups?") about the affair ever since, thus proving again that prolonged success does not beget loyalty.

Morning training sessions at Chain-O'-Lakes Stadium, in Winter Haven, were studied with a mixture of excessive optimism and unjustified despondency by the immense Boston press corps, which has traditionally been made uneasy by success.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

fixing accountability will be the low-hanging fruit for optimizing performance in business for at least the next decade. Accountability

Thomas Edison not only failed his way to success, he insisted, "When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't." When

success springs not from some new-fangled fad, paradigm, process, or program but from the willingness of an organization's people to embrace full accountability for the results they seek.

While losers languish Below The Line, preparing stories that explain why past efforts went awry, winners reside Above The Line, powered by commitment and hard work.

The only real way to measure progress, the only real way to see if activity has any real teeth is how that activity ties to the Key Results the company is after. Activity doesn't matter, it's all about results.

There is no 'easy button' when it comes to beating the competition. Success is simply about working hard and delivering results and staying uncomfortable.

The most compelling reason to work on your culture? Culture produces results.