Quotes About Success

Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been like that.

In my profession it isn't a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it's always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won't be discovered for another hundred years? I'll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn't mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means that they've given it their best. That's a winner.

Para que lo tengas en cuenta: los buenos profesionales no son necesariamente los que sobresalen cuantitativamente en las calificaciones, sino principalmente los que han obtenido

la ambición desmedida reivindica que "el fin justifica los medios" y obviamente, suele apartarse de la honestidad y el juego limpio. No hay que ganar a cualquier costo, no todo vale.

Aquellos que se obsesionan con el éxito y lo convierten en un valor, y además manejan esquemas rígidos de ejecución, viajan mal aunque quieran aparentar lo contrario. Quizá la felicidad no esté en ser el mejor vendedor, la mejor mamá, el mejor hijo o descollar en cualquier cosa, sino simplemente en intentarlo de manera honesta y tranquila, y disfrutarlo mientras se lleva a cabo.

La premisa es como sigue: cuanto más hagas del "ganar" un valor, paradójicamente, más destinado estarás a perder.

No debo permitirme ninguna falla, si quiero triunfar. El más mínimo error debe ser drásticamente sancionado y removido". Autocastigo en estado puro: no sólo te vuelves perfeccionista de tu propio ser, sino que te azotas

Lo bueno debe ser útil. Lo útil es bueno. El tipo A, congruente con su afán acaparador, hace de la obtención de logros su bandera de lucha. Por tal razón, abandonar los resultados es casi una blasfemia y un sinsentido ridículo, producto de un romanticismo ingenuo.

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

By disparaging ballet he succeeded very well in convincing the boys that ballet was not for Americans, that it was European in origin and in continuing character.

There were bickerings, outright fights, screaming tantrums, but Ted's vision of the Greater Denishawn had come true.

But that closing night at Carnegie was without a hint of decline.

Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down.

Nothing recedes like success.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

What I will teach you is the ability to become rich as speedily as possible. How excited you are to hear the news! And rightly so; I will lead you by a shortcut to the greatest wealth. . . . My dear Lucilius, not wanting something is just as good as having it. The important thing either way is the same – freedom from worry.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

As Winston Churchill once said, "The trick is to go from one failure65 to another, with no loss of enthusiasm.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it . . . if you think of, detail by detail, what you have to do next, it is a wonderful dream even if the end is a long way off, for there are about five thousand steps to be taken before we realize it; and start making the first ten, and stay making twenty after, it is amazing how quickly you get through those five thousand steps.