Quotes About Success

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

The world is his, who has money to go over it.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

The optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both are right. Each is right from his own particular point of view, and this point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. It determines as to whether it is a life of power or of impotence, of peace or of pain, of success or of failure.

Maturity is a result of learning from success and from mistakes—in other words, learning from experience.

In fact, to be successful as a first-time manager requires a major transition for which many people are not adequately prepared. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of this transition is that first-time managers are responsible for getting work done through others rather than on their own.

Execution, when first published in 2002, was based on our observation that the discipline of getting things done was what differentiated companies that succeeded from those that just muddled through or failed.

it could sell worldwide. Success stories like the Ohio pilot project not only broke down the barriers between the departments at Avery Dennison, they also showed the rest of the company that it was possible to gain growth almost immediately. The wins were celebrated and held up as company-wide

We will continue to focus on hiring and retaining versatile and talented employees, and continue to weight their compensation to stock options rather than cash. We know our success will be largely affected by our ability to attract and retain a motivated employee base, each of whom must think like, and therefore must actually be, an owner."21

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every downfall. Gradually the obstacles are all overcome and your current becomes stronger. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required. (p. 27)

Blame me not for my failures, for thats natural, but surely do for my achievements thats I rarely stumble upon with no motive whatsoever to achieve!

Higher income either indicates higher intelligence or lesser morals!

Whate?er the work a man performs, The most effective aid to its completion? The most prolific source of true success? Is energy, without despondency.

Hard work guarantees you nothing. But laziness assures failure. Work hard, or you have only yourself to blame.

Simply put, the best revenge is to live an awesome life.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.