Quotes About Success

Twenty-five years earlier there had not been more than five men in the United States worth as much as five million dollars, and there were less than twenty who were worth a million. Now, however, the New York Tribune would report that there were several hundred men in the city of New York alone who were worth at least a million, and a number who were worth at least twenty million.

Strategy is about fighting the right battles, the important ones you are likely to win. Operations are about winning them.

We are extraordinarily reluctant to admit that luck plays a part in business success.

Ohno is credited with the saying that "having no problems is the biggest problem of all." The result is the most productive automotive manufacturing system in the world today, which is sustaining its lead despite every attempt by its rivals to copy it. It has its origins in the need to overcome a constraint.

El éxito depende de las decisiones que tomemos: escoger nuestra actitud, vivir la vida con alegría, estar presente con los otros y que la gente esté feliz de vernos.

You can function just as long as your superiors have faith and confidence in you. When they lose it—your fault, other people's fault, whatever—then you have to leave and make room for the next guy. Your time at the plate is over.

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

All good poems are victories over something.

To a degree, Sharpton, Mason, and Maddox succeeded in making the truth of the case irrelevant. They promulgated a "could have been" theory that had resonance for many blacks distrustful of white authority.

Be nice to everyone you meet on the way up because you will meet them again on the way down.

Some games, you are Reggie Miller. And, if you're really good, you're maybe even Cheryl.

Second time's charm," Burned Dan said. "Think that's third time," I told him. "You want to do this again?" he said. "Second time's charm," I repeated.

You do have choices about how you spend your time. Balancing what you need to do with what you want to do can lead to happiness and success.

Seven people with MRSA-infected wounds were treated with honey after antibiotics failed to eradicate the infection. All were successfully treated.

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.

Heed the call. Take the leap. But do not go off half-cocked. Plan it out. Take that full day. Take more than one. Take as many as necessary to develop your plan. But do it, and then, execute it. You won't be sorry. You will be on your path to bliss.

I love it when a plan comes together! - Hannibal Smith, A-Team

I had learned that a dexterous, opposable thumb stood among the hallmarks of human success. We had maintained, even exaggerated, this important flexibility of our primate forebears, while most mammals had sacrificed it in specializing their digits. Carnivores run, stab, and scratch. My cat may manipulate me psychologically, but he'll never type or play the piano.

Amar a Dios y hacer Su voluntad es tener éxito en la vida. Punto.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

The main concern in Chile is that [Allende] can consolidate himself, and the picture projected to the world will be his success. . . . If we let the potential leaders in South America think they can move like Chile and have it both ways, we will be in trouble.

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.