Quotes About Success

Quieres sobresalir en medio de la multitud? Hazlo con tus logros y no usando un traje de payaso, así eso sea lo que usen los amantes de la moda.

Appearances are much less important than the courage, discipline, and resolve of people who are economically productive.

The Rings give them educations. Such gifts are intended to enhance their grandchildren's discipline, ambition, and independence.

Many successful business owners have told us that they enjoy short periods of rough times in their chosen industries because they weed out much of the competition.

The first-generation affluent are typically entrepreneurs.

They became millionaires by budgeting and controlling expenses, and they maintain their affluent status the same way.

Their children will have it better. They will not have to take significant risks. They will become physicians, attorneys, and accountants. Their capital is their intellect.

PAWs need to achieve, to create wealth, to become financially independent, to build something from scratch.

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Why are so few people in America affluent? Even most households with six-figure annual incomes are not affluent. These people have a different orientation than does Johnny Lucas. They believe in spending tomorrow's cash today. They are debt-prone and are on earn-and-consume treadmills. To many of them, those who do not display abundant material possessions are not successful. To them, nondisplay-oriented people like Johnny Lucas are their inferiors. Johnny

Eighty percent of America's millionaires are first-generation rich.

How do we define courage? Courage is behaving in a way that conjures up fear. Yes, Larry, courageous people, entrepreneurs, recognize the fear in what they are doing. But they deal with it. They overcome their fears. That's why they are successful.

It is my belief that the number of households in America that are interested in looking wealthy is far greater than the number that are interested in being wealthy. p122

Although millionaires have much more experience in making investment decisions, they allocate significantly more hours than do nonmillionaires in an effort to become even better investors. That is one of the main reasons that millionaires remain wealthy. Business

A self-made millionaire stated it best when he told us: I can't get my wife to spend any money! Most people will never become wealthy in one generation if they are married to people who are wasteful.

being a well-educated, high-income earner does not automatically translate into financial independence. It takes planning and sacrificing. What

costs of this so-called deal in time and effort? Most high-income generators, whether they are PAWs or UAWs, work more than forty hours a week. Typically, the amount of time remaining each week is allocated in ways that are congruent with their goals. All

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.

I firmly believe in luck. And I noticed: the more I work, the luckier I become.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have

It is a sweet thing to outstrip a father whom you haven't forgiven.