Quotes About Success

If I fail more times than you, I win.

If you tell your competition your tactics, they'll steal them and it will cost you. But if you tell them your strategy, it won't matter. Because they don't have the guts or the persistence to turn your strategy into their strategy.

If It Is Worth Doing, There's Probably a Dip

If you want to be a superstar, then you need to find a field with a steep Dip—a barrier between those who try and those who succeed. And you've got to get through that Dip to the other side. This isn't for everyone. If it were, there'd be no superstars.

Quitting when you're in the dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the dip just wastes the time you've already invested.

But wait, that's not enough. Not only do you need to find a Dip that you can conquer but you also need to quit all the Cul-de-Sacs that you're currently idling your way through. You must quit the projects and investments and endeavors that don't offer you the same opportunity. It's difficult, but it's vitally important.

you can't sell your ideas, your ideas go nowhere.

Pero el reto está en centrarse en el trabajo, no en el miedo que te causa hacerlo.

How tall is your sunflower? That's what most people seem to care about. How big a brand, how much market share, how many online followers. Too many marketers spend most of their time running a hype show, trying to get just a little bigger. The thing is, tall sunflowers have deep and complex root systems. Without them, they'd never get very high.

The difference between a successful artist and a failed one happens after the idea is hatched. The difference is the race to completion. Did you finish?

industry the most trusted brand is also the most profitable.

Quitting creates scarcity; scarcity creates value.

Quit when you'll be mediocre, when the returns aren't worth the investment, when you no longer think you'll enjoy the ends. Stick when the dip is the obstacle that creates scarcity, when you're simply bridging the gap between beginner's luck and mastery.

Earning trust outperforms earning envy.

Or win by being faster

If you can get through the Dip, if you can keep going when the system is expecting you to stop, you will achieve extraordinary results. People who make it through the Dip are scarce indeed, so they generate more value.

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Está claro que las ideas que se difunden triunfan; pero las ideas que no llegan a expresarse siempre fracasan.

The more important the project we take on, the more difficult it is to find certainty that our work will succeed before we begin. We can begin with this: If we failed, would it be worth the journey? Do you trust yourself enough to commit to engaging with a project regardless of the chances of success?

The Dip is the reason you're here. It's not enough to survive your way through this Dip. You get what you deserve when you embrace the Dip and treat it like the opportunity that it really is.

If there wasn't a Dip, there'd be no scarcity.

Thomas Hawk is the most successful digital photographer in the world. He has taken tens of thousands of pictures, on his way to his goal of taking a million in his lifetime. The

You're not the only person who looks for the best choice. Everyone does. As a result, the rewards for being first are enormous. It's not a linear scale. It's not a matter of getting a little more after giving a little more. It's a curve, and a steep one.

Kiasu is the Hokkien word for "the fear of being left behind" or not getting enough.