Quotes About Success

Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold; but one doesn't go into the mine looking for dirt—one goes in looking for the gold.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents.

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owing real estate.

It is now thirteen years since I ceased to accumulate wealth and began to distribute it. I could never have succeeded in either had I stopped with having enough to retire upon, but nothing to retire to.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

El secreto de mi éxito fue rodearme de personas mejores que yo.

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This might suggest that any successful exercise of apologetics, like indeed that of Lewis, must contain a strong confessional element which convinces precisely because it persuades through the force of an imaginative presentation of belief.

He developed a particularly annoying way of ignoring the teaching during the term and then coming top in the examination.

In an abstract sense, an application is successful if it correctly implements its specifications. Unfortunately, this pays only abstract bills. In reality, the success of a project is measured by how well it meets the expectations of its users.

People find it easier to join an ongoing success. Show them a glimpse of the future and you'll get them to rally around.

Let your instincts contribute to your performance.

The world believes, "Success makes you happy." The truth is; happiness makes you successful. The Happier You Get …

You didn't fight so hard to survive – and then do nothing with your life.

Procura hablar siempre bien de ti mismo e imagina que tu vida funciona como tú deseas. Así crearás nuevos patrones de felicidad.

Effort first, harvest second.

We all fail. But it is not failing that hurts. What hurts is knowing that you didn't give your best.

but God must send the power. The man works in his own will, and God must give the grace—the one reason why God often gives so little grace and so little success. But let us all take our place before God, and

What made it happen? What made it not happen? Thinking of a cure, a week away from the city, a dinner party with other geniuses, a new rug, a new shirt, a new way to hold him in bed, and failing and failing and somehow, at random, succeeding. Was it worth it?

Things are going so well today that it feels not impossible it is the Nobel Committee. But, friends, it is not the Nobel Committee. It is a rule of life, alas, that it is never the Nobel Committee.

The danger is that being pushed towards early specialisation can leave children believing that they have only one way to succeed...Prodigies who don't make it will have worked insanely hard on something that can longer sustain them, after having neglected skills needed to pursue any other kind of life.

The sprinter unwisely indulges his arrogance against the marathon runner, and likewise, parents who encourage their children's narcissism do them no favours. It is best to accomplish something before becoming famous, because if the fame comes first, it often precludes accomplishment...You don't build a career by playing Carnegie Hall. You build a career and then Carnegie Hall will invite you to play.