Quotes About Success

Ultimately, everyone has to ask himself or herself how they're going to fail. We all do, you know, so let's get that out of the way. The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.

audacity was often the only thing that separated two equally talented men and their job titles.

La creatividad es inútil si no puede aplicarse. La meta para tu contenido debe ser: Esto traerá más dinero a la empresa. La vida de una empresa depende de las ventas y el flujo de efectivo. Las grandes ideas son inútiles hasta que alguien paga por ellas.

I learned that real networking was about finding ways to make other people more successful. It was about working hard to give more than you get.

Take as little time as possible in your cold call to ensure that the next time you speak to them it's in their office, or better yet, over some linguine and wine.

And the law of probability ensures that the more new people you know, the more opportunities will come your way and the more help you'll get at critical junctures in your career.

Here's another one of Ferrazzi's shameless attempts at self-promotion.

The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.

If I'm going to take the time to meet with somebody, I'm going to try to make that person successful. But David kept score. He saw every social encounter in terms of diminishing returns. For him, there was only so much goodwill available in a relationship and only so much collateral and equity to burn. What he didn't understand was that it's the exercising of equity that builds equity. That's the big "aha" that David never seemed to have learned.

A goal is a dream with a deadline." That marvelous definition drives home a very important point. Before you start writing down your goals, you'd better know what your dream is. Otherwise, you might find yourself headed for a destination you never wanted to get to in the first place.

A successful brand, then, is the promise and guarantee of a mind-shattering experience each and every time.

Todos fracasamos alguna vez. No se trata de elegir entre el fracaso y el éxito; sino de escoger el riesgo y aspirar a la grandeza, o no tomar ningún riesgo y asegurarnos la mediocridad.

well over 50 percent of Americans are unhappy at work. Many of these people are doing well, but they are doing well at something they don't enjoy.

the book Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck, my old friend Tony Tjan and his coauthors studied people they called "Luck Dominant," and found that 86 percent of them credited their success to "being open to new things and people.

Indeed, in addition to its lessons of thrift, industry, and prudence, Franklin's autobiography tells us every man should be part of a social group, if not three. He believed that a group of like-minded, achievement-oriented individuals could dramatically leverage each other's success to do things otherwise impossible.

We are committed to the mission and to each other's success: We will not let each other fail. In fact, we will ensure each other succeeds. We will elevate each other as we work together to achieve

among the failed startups, 80 percent never managed to innovate beyond their original vision for their companies. Among the successful startups, however, two-thirds had found success by discarding whatever founding vision had gotten them funded, because trial and error had led them to a new vision of success.

people with a low tolerance for risk, whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success.

Stop driving yourself—and everyone else—crazy thinking about how to make yourself successful. Start thinking about how you're going to make everyone around you successful.

real networking was about finding ways to make other people more successful.

I've come to believe that connecting is one of the most important business—and life—skill sets you'll ever learn. Why? Because, flat out, people do business with people they know and like. Careers—in every imaginable field—work the same

Who you know determines who you are—how you feel, how you act, and what you achieve.

Creativity begets more creativity, money begets more money, knowledge begets more knowledge, more friends beget more friends, success begets even more success. Most important, giving begets giving.

There are three things in this world that engender deep emotional bonds between people. They are health, wealth and children.