Quotes About Success

most creative, successful business leaders have tended to be expert questioners. They're known to question the conventional wisdom of their industry, the fundamental practices of their company, even the validity of their own assumptions.

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life–so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

A rich person should leave his kids enough to do something, but not enough to do nothing.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Time is the enemy of the poor business and the friend of the great business. If you have a business that's earning 20%-25% on equity, time is your friend. But time is your enemy if your money is in a low return business.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

Do men read "self-help" books? Yes. They are called "business books"—self-help books for dads to do better in their business so their families can do better in life.

Peter's dad, Joe, had prepared his son to know that a certain amount of hazing is the price of admission for acceptance, not rejection. The trading of wit-covered put-downs is boys and men training each other to handle criticism, unconsciously knowing that the ability to handle criticism is a prerequisite for success.

Their successful husbands had learned that earning money led to love. Because it did. However, earning money didn't sustain love. As women were becoming more in touch with and sharing what was bothering them, their husbands were often burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets would miss. The more successful they were, the more they learned to repress their feelings, not express their feelings.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it.What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. —Jim Rohn

If you're thinking about your career, you probably don't have one.

I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.