Quotes About Success

Happiness is a singular incentive to mediocrity.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

The way of truth is one and artless; the way of private gain and success...is double, uneven, and fortuitous.' -On the Useful and the Honourable.

Yes. But he brought this great matter to a successful conclusion.' – That means something, but not enough; for we rightly accept the maxim which says that plans must not be judged by results.

Era un hombre de muchos planes, pero de poco fruto.

power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to an ability to hide its own mechanisms.

Today I begin to choose Happiness, Success, Perfect Health, & Great Relationships.

There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.

The heartbreak of having written and published a first book is that the world then expected you to write a second.

Your grades in school, your scores on the SAT, mean less for life success than your capacity to co-operate, your ability to regulate your emotions, your capacity to delay your gratification, and your capacity to focus your attention. Those skills are far more important—all the data indicate—for life success than your IQ or your grades.

The results of these and other studies were eye-opening. The children who exhibited delayed gratification scored higher on almost every measure of success in life: higher-paying jobs, lower rates of drug addiction, higher test scores, higher educational attainment, better social integration, etc.

I don't give a damn about reviews. What I like to read are royalty checks.

ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST

If you want to write, then write. If you want someone to give you MONEY for what you write, you must understand that you are in a BUSINESS relationship. Learn the BUSINESS of writing.

All in all, I was feeling the smug satisfaction of a job well begun and therefore half done.

Good hiring practices are the backbone of strong company performance.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and achievement." The

If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

In order to be a winner, you have to look for ways of getting things done and not for reasons why things can't be done. People who live with excuses have things that can't be done hovering around them all the time.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

For this one night, the less he cared, the more he made.

Will was pretty sure that the only successful business in Forbes was the one that printed the "For Sale" signs.

Her shit, Jesse liked to tell himself, had finally come in.

Theoretical knowledge is not the exclusive domain of ivory tower intellectuals, but is, in fact, a crucial necessity of man's proper survival. Every bit of your mental contents is derived from some theory, and your success and happiness hinge on whether it is true or false, good or evil.