Quotes About Success

I just know that there's a job for me at the end of the rainbow.

She never wanted anybody to fail to meet their potential. To her that was the greatest error of all.

She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped trying.

We'd be nowhere without ambition.

The only failure is not knowing how to be happy.---My Story

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Unless you're really lucky, you're probably not getting paid to be smart. And you aren't getting paid to be a leading expert in the latest technologies. You work for an institution that is, most likely, trying to make money. Your job is to do something that helps the organization meet that goal. All of this careful thought and preparation has made you ready to show up at work and start kicking ass for your company.

We're being paid to create value. This means getting up out of our reading chairs and getting things done. To be successful, raw ability will get you only so far. The final stretch is populated by closers—people who finish things.

If my role in a relationship is to help someone, I become invested in that person's success. I'm nudging someone along their career on a path that I believe is the right one. So, if that path leads to success, it's my success as well.

I told her of a letter Camille Pissarro once wrote to his son about Monet's dealers, who were insisting he exhibit only one kind of painting, the one that had become very popular with collectors. The collectors only wanted Sheaves. Pissarro wrote that he couldn't understand how Monet could subject himself to the demand that he repeat himself. He called it a terrible consequence of success.

Her father was one of those tall, angular, self-embalming types. All balls and liver. His kind predated the notion of alcoholism. Groton, Princeton, Harvard Business School. His neatly clipped silver hair and tailored suits and unmitigating stare of eyes and trim old body said it all over in a simple, clear language: Chief Executive Officer. Do not fuck with this man.

My father like all successful immigrants before him gently and not so gently exploited his own. This is way I learn business, this is way they learn business.

You have to live well to defeat whoever's doing this to you," I said. "You can't let them win.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

When we look at really good high-performing companies abroad, they are always at the back of an extremely high-performing board, and that is something which is very lacking in this country.

Britain lacks that fundamental belief that anyone can make it. What we need is a British dream. Let's give young people the courage and ambition to go for it.

Dybala only lacks the belief that he is a great footballer. After his great experience at Palermo he had a great start with Juve and he did beautiful things.

All I would say is it doesn't matter where you come from. Like, Jim Sheridan comes from the inner city, and he's one of the top ones, a top lad.

I love Strapping Young Lad. I'm incredibly proud of that band; I'm incredibly proud of everything we did.

Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.

You're always working to try and climb that ladder.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.