Quotes About Success

Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it's very hard to fail completely

The basic requirements were sky-high intelligence and unquenchable ambition. A more elusive criterion was one's Googliness.

the Hacker Ethic, which instructs you to keep working until your hack tops previous efforts.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

Marcus de Obregón is appealing and, yes, instructive, but is not entirely successful because the author often forgot he was writing a novel, not his memoirs.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

the quality of the CEO is the top factor in the success of the investment.

Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

Like Cleopatra," observed Philostratus, "they reached such a pinnacle by using their connection to men: Cleopatra through Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, Domna through Severus, Maesa and her daughter through the two young cousins—one or both of them said to be the son of Caracalla. And now those boys rule jointly, since Antoninus adopted him and made him Caesar.

The secret to our success is that we live in a world in which knowledge is all around us. It is in the things we make, in our bodies and workspaces, and in other people. We live in a community of knowledge.

Reductionism describes the scheme, and it has a long history of successes.

The law of successful operations is to avoid the enemy's strength and strike his weakness.

The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day.

Nos proporciona un intenso placer conseguir explicar algo con éxito, al igual que cuando Newton explicó las leyes del movimiento planetario de Kepler, junto con otras muchas cosas. Las teorías y los métodos científicos que sobreviven son aquellos que proporcionan esa satisfacción, encajen o no con ningún modelo preexistente sobre cómo habría que practicar la ciencia.

If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

If you seek honor and respect you will not find it, for a leader is powerless to elevate himself. It is only when you serve others without regard for self, will honor, respect and lasting success be found.

No matter which part of our brains we use, there are two things we all have in common: Our need to travel successfully through the maze of life, And the fact that 90% of our brains are water.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

I know you think we don't need Daniel, and that I am capable of doing what he does myself, but he represents our aim and what the results of success should be. A flowering.

He wanted to suceed in life, at whatever cost.

If you set out to fail and you succeed, what have you done?