Quotes About Success

No author should be considered as having failed until he starts teaching others about writing.

he had already been financially independent

The neglect of silent evidence is endemic to the way we study comparative talent, particularly in activities that are plagued with winner-take-all attributes. We may enjoy what we see, but there is no point reading too much into success stories because we do not see the full picture.

My only measure of success is how much time you have to kill.

in Tony's case, free time was the result of productive insights.

investors are led to overestimate their chances of success.

One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip to the store caused the winning?

she may have been happier before the Black Swan of her success than after.

not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking.

I love taking small losses,"he says. "I just need my winners to be large.

Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain.

the easier it was to make money.

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them.

It is hard to stick to a good discipline of mental write-off when things are going well, yet that's when one needs the discipline the most.

that classroom education does not lead to wealth as much as it comes from wealth

se você não assumir riscos, não há nada que possa fazer para tornar-se grande, nada.

In these professions, no matter how highly paid, your income is subject to gravity.

Your revenue depends on your continuous efforts more than on the quality of your decisions.

Other professions allow you to add zeroes to your output (and your income), if you do well, at little or no extra effort.

companies foolishly believed that all they needed was to win the majority. No, you idiots.

But no problem; the people you meet when riding high are also those you meet when riding low, and I saw the fellow getting some (more subtle) abuse from the same accountant before he got fired, as he eventually ran out of luck. You are free—but only as free as your last trade. As we saw with Ahiqar's wild ass, freedom is never free.

Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura.

people do not realize that success consists mainly in avoiding losses, not in trying to derive profits.

o sucesso de um escritor, uma empresa, uma ideia, um músico, um atleta, tem de ser planetário, ou equivale a nada. Esses efeitos pioram a previsibilidade, já que hoje quase tudo na vida socioeconômica é dominado por Cisnes Negros. Nossa sofisticação faz com que continuamente coloquemos os carros na frente dos bois, criando coisas que somos cada vez menos capazes de compreender