Quotes About Success

Another great moment was signing my first check, seeing all those zeroes. I'm thinking: Could you spend all those zeroes?

Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that.

At this point in my career I'm not concerned about the money, it's about winning. Nothing else even matters.

It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.

Every morning you have two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.

This time may seem different, but all too often a deeper look shows it is not. Encouragingly, history does point to warning signs that policy makers can look at to assess risk—if only they do not become too drunk with their credit bubble–fueled success and say, as their predecessors have for centuries, "This time is different

It's been said that success doesn't lead to happiness; happiness creates success.

Every 'no' means you're one step closer to 'yes.

Your career is your business. You are its CEO. Complacency breeds failure. As the CEO of your career, you must continually improve your skills, especially the art of communication.

Passion isn't enough, but when passion meets aptitude it can change the world.

The only way to have a great career, says Smith, is to do what you love.

Cuando Dios pone un sueño en nuestro corazón, sabemos que triunfaremos. Cada "no" significa que estamos un paso más cerca del "sí".»

Passion is meaningless without vision. Innovation demands both.

Successful organizations and companies share the stage with their best storytellers. Brands are a collection of narratives. Unleash your best stories.

In his own mind he had already achieved success in America. Now he had to go through the motions.

Inspiring communicators and the best TED presenters stick to one of three types of stories. The first are personal stories that relate directly to the theme of the conversation or presentation; second are stories about other people who have learned a lesson the audience can relate to; third are stories involving the success or failure of products or brands.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

Black respectability or "appropriate" behavior doesn't seem to matter. If anything, black achievement, black aspirations, and black success are construed as direct threats. Obama's presidency made that clear. Aspirations and the achievement of these aspirations provide no protection. Not even to the God-fearing. On

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don't like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

I believe ability can get you to the top," says coach John Wooden, "but it takes character to keep you there.… It's so easy to … begin thinking you can just 'turn it on' automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you're there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, 'More than ability, they have character.'

Think about what you want to look back and say. Then choose your mindset.

you aren't a failure until you start to blame. What

Beware of success. It can knock you into a fixed mindset.