Quotes About Success

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

How we experience life is in direct relationship to our inner condition: to our psychological health and maturity and our understanding of the purpose for living, and what we are willing to do to live our lives successfully.

However you define success—a happy family, good friends, a satisfying career, robust health, financial security, the freedom to pursue your passions—it tends to be accompanied by a couple of qualities.

The ones who wrote about what they had already achieved had higher satisfaction with their current tasks and projects, as compared with the ones who reflected on what they had not yet achieved. But

Genius is patience,

When Boice followed up on the group some years later, he found that their paths had diverged sharply. The page-a-day folks had done well and generally gotten tenure. The so-called "binge writers" fared far less well, and many had had their careers cut short. The clear implication was that the best advice for young writers and aspiring professors is: Write every day. Use your self-control to form a daily habit, and you'll produce more with less effort in the long run.

While other novelists were worrying about money and struggling to turn in chapters overdue at their publishers, Trollope was prospering and remaining ahead of schedule. While one of his novels was being serialized, he usually had at least one other completed novel, often two or three, awaiting publication.

Getting your brain wired into little goals and achieving them, that helps you achieve the bigger things you shouldn't be able to do," he said. "It's not just practicing the specific thing. It's always making things more difficult than they should be, and never falling short, so that you have that extra reserve, that tank, so you know you can always go further than your goal. For me that's what discipline is. It's repetition and practice.

If you had told me in 1968 that I'd end up being a personal productivity consultant," he says, "I would have told you that you're out of your mind." He drifted from job to job—he counted thirty-five by his thirty-fifth birthday

Girls' superior self-control is probably one reason they get better grades in school than boys do.

Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.

The fate of your company is in the hands of your people. Train them well.

The only thing more expensive than hiring a sales trainer is not hiring one.

Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

The ability to read, society tells us, contributes to success in education, employment, and citizenship. Reading is a democratic craft. Writing, in contrast, is considered a fine art.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of.

To move from poverty to middle class or middle class to wealth, an individual must give up relationships for achievement (at least for some period of time). The issue is time; there is not enough time to have both.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

We hold those who are on the tightest of schedules in reverence; the busier you are, the higher your status as a human being.

You don't learn how to win by losing on purpose.