Quotes About Success

I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.

Surely if we all try hard, we can all lift ourselves up high above the average. It looks a little difficult mathematically, but that's nothing.

Bagshaw owned a half share in the harness business and a quarter share in the tannery and that made him a business man. He paid for a pew in the Presbyterian Church and that represented religion in Parliament. He attended college for two sessions thirty years ago, and that represented education and kept him abreast with modern science, if not ahead of it. He kept a little account in one bank and a big account in the other, so that he was a rich man or a poor man at the same time.

Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

There are no moral shortcuts in the game of business—or life. There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

S × E)T = R ([Strategy times Execution] multiplied by Trust equals Results)

Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both." I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

Bill Gates's story was never rags to riches, a Harvard friend once remarked, but riches to riches—though the initial affluence, embellished to include such fictions as a million-dollar trust fund, was now utterly insignificant.

Your failures don't define you, but they can refine you.

i hope i sell some books soonest

What is gamesmanship? Most difficult of questions to answer briefly. "The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating"—that is my personal "working definition."

A hero, in his mind, was not someone who suffered disaster after disaster, heroically pulling through with great endurance, but rather one who focused his intelligence and skills to avoid disaster, thus succeeding by good planning and crafty decision making.

Pray God our aim is straight and true and each arrow finds its mark.

It does not matter where one starts; it is where one finishes that makes all the difference.

The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.

Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.

You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it.

No matter how small you start, always dream big.

It's not about working for money, it's about having money work for you.

When you fail, that is when you get closer to success.

Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers.

If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it.

We were all born equal, but where we are in life now is of our own making.

Be yourself and become wealthy!