Quotes About Success

You win some, you lose some. And when you lose, you have to pull yourself together and go back for more. Otherwise, the other side wins by default.

There isn't very much of the little boy left in Oscar; he didn't get to his position without being able to keep it under very tight control.

Compliance with the mile-high stack of social expectations you grow up with as a girl turns out to be mandatory if you want to get ahead in business. Be blonde, be skinny, and don't forget to smile, bitch.

CHAPTER 15: RAIN OF STEEL CHAPTER 16: SCHWERPUNKT PART 4: BLOOD OATHS CHAPTER 17: STATE OF SIEGE CHAPTER 18: SCORPION STARE CHAPTER 19: ASYLUM Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. —John Harington (16th century)

Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

we have a treatment group (those students who attended highly selective colleges and universities) and a nonequivalent control group (those students who were talented enough to be accepted by such a school but opted to attend a less selective institution instead).

Students who attended more selective colleges earned roughly the same as students of seemingly similar ability who attended less selective schools.

the title of this chapter, "Recognize that your own motivation, ambition, and talents will determine your success more than the college name on your diploma.

Recognize that your own motivation, ambition, and talents will determine your success more than the college name on your diploma."8

Maybe it's a stretch to blame a broader social pathology on hyper-competitive soccer parents. Still, there is not a huge downside to asking every once in a while, Why am I doing this? We will know for certain that my analysis is wrong when we see the following obituary: Bob Smith died yesterday at the age of 74. He finished life in 186th place.

The saying that money doesn't buy you happiness is true. But it sure as fuck helps.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.

If it comes easy...Take it twice

companies and leaned back smiling. He had the fort

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

If a child washes his hands he could eat with kings

he that has health and children will also have wealth

With unparalleled rapidity, the Igbos advanced fastest in the shortest period of time of all Nigeria's ethnic groups. Like the Jews, to whom they have frequently been likened, they progressed despite being a minority in the country, filling the ranks of the nation's educated, prosperous upper classes.

Somehow I found myself admiring the man for his lack of modesty. For what is modesty but inverted pride? We all think we are first-class people. Modesty forbids us from saying so ourselves though, presumably, not from wanting to hear it from others. Perhaps it was their impatience with this kind of hypocrisy that made men like Nanga successful politicians while starry-eyed idealists strove vaingloriously to bring into politics niceties and delicate refinements that belonged elsewhere.

new Porsche, some cash, and no doubt a condo by the sea had been her payment. 

Are we going to answer God's call for this church to make a significant impact in this new millennium, or will we rest on past success?

Up from the ashes come the roses of success.

Las empresas de mayor éxito en Internet sacan provecho de la larga cola de un modo u otro. Por ejemplo, Google obtiene la mayoría de sus ganancias no de las grandes empresas anunciantes, sino de las pequeñas