Quotes About Success

Success builds on success, and as this happens, over and over, you move toward the highest success possible.

what's the ONE Thing I can do to ensure I hit my goals this week such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

When people don't understand the power of the ONE Thing, they try to do too much—and because this never works over time, they end up making a horrific deal with themselves. They go for success by sacrificing their health. They stay up late, miss meals or eat poorly, and completely ignore exercise. Personal

In an attempt to make it all work, I began to bear down even harder. You might say that I started to clench my way to success. I really did. I thought that this might be the way you went through life—with your jaw clenched, your fist clenched, your stomach clenched, and your butt clenched.

All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time—all of them.

Achievement doesn't require you to be a full-time disciplined person where your every action is trained and where control is the solution to every situation. Success is actually a short race—a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

To-do lists inherently lack the intent of success. In fact, most to-do lists are actually just survival lists—getting you through your day and your life, but not making each day a stepping-stone for the next so that you sequentially build a successful life.

do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down.

As a result, 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.

Unlimited Power

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.

When people talk about "reinventing" their career or their business, small boxes are often the root cause. What you build today will either empower or restrict you tomorrow. It will either serve as a platform for the next level of your success or as a box, trapping you where you are.

Don't fear failure. It's as much a part of your journey to extraordinary results as success.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

Adopt a growth mindset, and don't be afraid of where it can take you. Extraordinary results aren't built solely on extraordinary results. They're built on failure too. In fact, it would be accurate to say that we fail our way to success. When we fail, we stop, ask what we need to do to succeed, learn from our mistakes, and grow. Don't be afraid to fail. See it as part of your learning process and keep striving for your true potential.

So, if you want to get the most out of your day, do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down.

Napoleon Hill put it very well in the title of his famous book Think and Grow Rich.

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. "The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest." Bob Hawke

Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list—a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.

It's realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

This is the story line for extraordinary success stories. Passion for something leads to disproportionate time practicing or working at it. That time spent eventually translates to skill, and when skill improves, results improve. Better results generally lead to more enjoyment, and more passion and more time is invested. It can be a virtuous cycle all the way to extraordinary results.

Deals aren't found. Opportunities are found. Deals are made." In

Our research shows that as your business grows, this can reasonably be held at or below 30 percent of gross revenue (GCI).

If a list isn't built around success, then that's not where it takes you.