Quotes About Success

The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.

While a history of success can certainly increase your confidence, you don't actually need that history to feel confident.

People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.

a second is as good as an eon, if you suceed...and as good as forever if you fail

To do anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift.

I believe you have inside you a core genius… some one thing that you love to do, and do so well, that you hardly feel like doing anything else. It's effortless for you and a whole lot of fun. And if you could make money doing it, you'd make it your lifetime's work. Successful people believe this, too. That's why they put their core genius first. They focus on it—and delegate everything else to other people on their team.

Failure in the past doesn't mean you'll fail in the future.

When you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

The best way to make a permanent change is to focus on daily, incremental improvements.

The goal is just to finish.

You need to be good at failing to be successful.

The challenge is that often when we think about success or think about our goals, we think it'll be good, and there will also be something which is bad. Therefore we have an inner conflict. If we can't iron out that conflict, we exhaust ourselves fighting against part of us that wants to do this, and part of us that doesn't want to do it. We're pushed and pulled in all kinds of directions by our own internal programs, many of which are unconscious to us.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn't ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.

Well, even if we lose our money, we'll have a company. For once in our lives, we'll have a company.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before

I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction ' we all knew.

Peter Principle--a brilliant and talented man promoted just one notch over his head.

The bonsai grower knows that if she can give life to a product that lives forever and perpetually adds value to the lives of others, she has not only a success but a legacy.

When you don't have the skill you need, you hire someone who does; and when you can't do that, you find a way to fake it. Some days I think that explains most of my career.

Gambling isn't fun; winning is fun.