Quotes About Success

To cheer myself up, I try to remember the difference between short-term and long-term success. Living a good life and making a real mark on society is a marathon, not a sprint.

Here's the thing about failure in innovation: it's a price worth paying. We

Reality dictates that no matter how bright and capable a leader might be, the work of the organization must be accomplished by trusted colleagues. A leader's inference that he or she is primarily responsible for the organization's success demonstrates blatant hubris.

these three cases, teasing out some of the essential elements of difference. Netscape vs. Google

opportunity for new entrants is to fully embrace the potential of Web 2.0. Companies that succeed will create applications that learn from

of those buzzword-addicted startups are definitely not Web 2.0, while some of the applications we identified as Web 2.0, like Napster and BitTorrent, are not even properly web applications!) We began trying to tease out the principles that are demonstrated in one way or another by the success stories of web 1.0 and by the most interesting of the new

For the first time in my life I know what I want and I have what it takes to get me there. If you never experienced that I feel sorry for you. But it wasn't always like this. I have been through fire to get here. I seen things and done things and had shit done to me you couldn't barely credit. So be happy for me. And for fucksake don't get in my way.

But we will succeed. I've seen the future, Jorj. We will succeed, because we have no other choice. -Thrawn

what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

A great tactician creates plans. A good tactician recognizes the soundness of a plan presented to him. A fair tactician must see the plan succeed before offering approval. Those

luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

On the other hand, I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on... I will be sitting on it

Edenists will disdain busy working people. They will portray them as heartless robots of a soulless capitalist system. They don't understand that most of those purported robots are driven both by their rational and emotional brains. They do not represent pure reason or pure greed. Most of those who succeed in moving toward their personal and business goals have integrated their drives for forward motion and hope.

One thing that capitalism cannot function with is people that accept that failure is itself success. Because you have to be bent upon success in order to be a good capitalist subject. If you accept that 'I'm never going to get that object I desire,' then you are no longer seduced by accumulation or advertising.

This is one of the most suspect things about the game form: A game with an involving story and poor gameplay cannot be considered a successful game, whereas a game with superb gameplay and a laughable story can see its spine bend from the weight of many accolades—and those who praise the latter game will not be wrong.

We cannot fail to win—unless we fail to try.

Way to go, Dallas!

You know, we're a victim of our own success," the former senator said quietly. "We've managed to handle every nation-state that ever crossed us, but these invisible bastards who work for their vision of God are harder to identify and track.

Muy bien, jefe

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it ~Tom Clancy

Include some material in your business plan about your competition. Become obsessed by your competition. You may think you have none, but you do.

Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.

Better to have lots of time than lots of money in those early years. There will be time later for earning.