Quotes About Success

There is this pervasive idea that the successful person is the "disciplined person" who leads a "disciplined life." It's a lie. The truth is we don't need any more discipline than we already have.

Progress is important and is usually achieved by the person who makes the most attempts. The quality is in the quantity.

Quiénes somos y adónde queremos ir determinan lo que hacemos y lo que conseguimos.

So, if you want to get the most out of your day, do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early

aquello que podrías hacer y dedicarte a hacer aquello que debes hacer. Consiste en reconocer que no todas las cosas importan igual y en encontrar aquello que más importa. Es una manera de vincular más estrechamente lo que uno hace con lo que uno desea. Se basa en darse cuenta de que obtener resultados extraordinarios viene determinado directamente

Here's what I found out: We overthink, overplan, and overanalyze our careers, our businesses, and our lives; that long hours are neither virtuous nor healthy; and that we usually succeed in spite of most of what we do, not because of it. I discovered that we can't manage time, and that the key to success isn't in all the things we do but in the handful of things we do well.

Instead of forgetting your dreams and living within your means, try pursuing the means to live your dreams.

That's when the battle for the right of way gets fierce and frantic. Lacking a clear formula for making decisions, we get reactive and fall back on familiar, comfortable ways to decide what to do. As a result, we haphazardly select approaches that undermine our success.

The Focusing Question. Mark Twain agreed with Carnegie and described it this way: The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.

Achievers operate differently. They have an eye for the essential.

Extraordinary results are rarely happenstance. They come from the choices we make and the actions we take.

We hear about balance so much we automatically assume it's exactly what we should be seeking. It's not. Purpose, meaning, significance—these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance

Resultados extraordinários acontecem apenas quando você dá o melhor de si para tornar-se o melhor possível em sua função mais importante.

The Focusing Question collapses all possible questions into one: "What's the ONE Thing I can do / such that by doing it / everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

established, you can either build on that habit or, if appropriate, build another one. If you are what you repeatedly do, then achievement isn't an action you take but a habit you forge into your life. You don't have to seek out success. Harness the power of selected discipline to build the right habit, and extraordinary results will find you.

If everyone has the same number of hours in a day, why do some people seem to get so much more done than others? How do they do more, achieve more, earn more, have more? If time is the currency of achievement, then why are some able to cash in their allotment for more chips than others? The answer is they make getting to the heart of things the heart of their approach. They go small.

Getting extraordinary results is all about creating a domino effect in your life.

Whether you seek answers big or small, asking the Focusing Question is the ultimate success habit for your life.

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

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." —Arnold H. Glasow

hours spent checking off a to-do list and ending the day with a full trash can and a clean desk are not virtuous and have nothing to do with success.

You know about habits. They can be hard to break—and hard to create. But we are unknowingly acquiring new ones all the time. When we start and continue a way of thinking or a way of acting over a long enough period, we've created a new habit. The choice we face is whether or not we want to form habits that get us what we want from life. If we do, then the Focusing Question is the most powerful success habit we can have.

So when you think about success, shoot for the moon. The moon is reachable if you prioritize everything and put all of your energy into accomplishing the most important thing. Getting extraordinary results is all about creating a domino effect in your life.

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 some one 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 is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.