Quotes About Success

you need to know whether you do not like the pursuit of money and wealth because you genuinely do not like it, or because you are rationalizing your inability to be successful at it with the argument that wealth is not a good thing because it is bad for one's digestive system or disturbing for one's sleep or other such arguments.

It's much easier to sell "Look what I did for you" than "Look what I avoided for you.

So what counts is the payoff from success.

it took seven years to make John a hero and just seven days to make him a failure.

At the time of writing, most big recent successes (Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google) were started by people with skin and soul in the game and grew organically—if they had recourse to funding, it was to expand or allow the managers to cash out; funding was not the prime source of creation. You don't create a firm by creating a firm; nor do you do science by doing science.

You were wrong for years, right for a moment, losing small, winning big, so vastly more successful than the other way

suckers try to be right, nonsuckers try to make the buck, or: Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Those who go the extra mile are rewarded.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

Most people give up before the rewards.

Wealth does not count so much into one's well-being as the route one uses to get to it.

Nobody accepts randomness in his own success, only in his failure.

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative," John Stuart Mill once complained. This problem is chronic: if you tell people that the key to success is not always skills, they think that you are telling them that it is never skills, always luck.

Our brain is not cut out for nonlinearities. Our emotional apparatus is designed for linear causality. This is why there are routes to success that are nonrandom, but very few people have the mental stamina to follow them.

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Some blindness to the odds or an obsession with their own positive Black Swan is necessary for entrepreneurs to function. The

I may never know if Onassis was skilled or lucky, though I am convinced that his charm opened doors for him

So the antifragile can lose for a long time with impunity, so long as he happens to be right once; for the fragile, a single loss can be terminal.

Success is leading an honorable life. Honor implies that there are some actions you would categorically never do, regardless of the material rewards. It also means that there are things you would do unconditionally, regardless of the consequences.

I have gotten closer to my dream life thanks

I have gotten closer to my dream life thanks to the

Luck favors the prepared

Too much success is the enemy (think of the punishment meted out on the rich and famous); too much failure is demoralizing. I would like the option of having neither.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking. You stand above the rat race and the pecking order, not outside of it, if you do so by choice.