Quotes About Success

the race isn't over until the checker flies.

Un concepto tan simple, pero tan verdadero: tenemos ante nuestros ojos la respuesta a lo que preguntamos. Somos los creadores de nuestros propios destinos. Pero, actuemos intencionalmente o por ignorancia, nadie más que nosotros mismos es responsable de nuestros éxitos o fracasos.

Ninguna carrera se gana en la primera curva —dijo—. Pero muchas se pierden allí.

We all play by the same rules; it's just that some people spend more time reading those rules and figuring out how to make them work in their behalf.

Schumacher has no flaws. He has the best car, the best-financed team, the best tires, the most skill. Who can rejoice in his wins? The sun rises every day. What is to love? Lock the sun in a box. Force the sun to overcome adversity in order to rise. Then we will cheer! I will often admire a beautiful sunrise, but I will never consider the sun a champion for having risen.

To finish first, first you must finish

Yes: the race is long—to finish first, first you must finish.

A good strategy with a bad implementation is a bad strategy

repeated failure is key to doing bold things, to being entrepreneurial. Try stuff, fail, fail fast, try again. When Sam Walton was asked why Walmart was so successful, he said, "We do a lot of things right." Then asked how they did things right, he said, "Because we did them wrong the first time.

7. Be willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. If your job doesn't excite you enough to follow this principle, resign and find a job you love enough to do what it takes.

extraordinary success is sequential, not simultaneous. What starts out linear becomes geometric. You do the right thing and then you do the next right thing. Over time it adds up, and the geometric potential of success is unleashed. The domino effect applies to the big picture, like your work or your business, and it applies to the smallest moment in each day when you're trying to decide what to do next.

Big is bad is a lie. It's quite possibly the worst lie of all, for if you fear big success, you'll either avoid it or sabotage your efforts to achieve it.

To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you'll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.

When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn't actually move us any closer to success. Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.

Achievers operate differently. They have an eye for the essential. They pause just long enough to decide what matters and then allow what matters to drive their day. Achievers do sooner what others plan to do later and defer, perhaps indefinitely, what others do sooner. The difference isn't in intent, but in right of way. Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.

Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.

There is no failure. You win or you learn. Either one is okay.

buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others—and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.

When you see someone who has a lot of knowledge, they learned it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of skills, they developed them over time. When you see someone who has done a lot, they accomplished it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of money, they earned it over time. The key is over time. Success

extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with.

Happiness happens when you have a bigger purpose than having more fulfills, which is why we say happiness happens on the way to fulfillment.

Thinking big is essential to extraordinary results. Success requires action, and action requires thought. But here's the catch—the only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with. Make this connection, and the importance of how big you think begins to sink in.

Where I'd had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had too.