Quotes About Success

But if your claim to fame is not having any deficiencies - if you're considered a genius, a talent, or a natural - then you have a lot to lose. Effort can reduce you.

Was it Mozart's musical ability or the fact that he worked till his hands were deformed? Was

Those with the growth mindset found success in doing their best, in learning and improving. And this is exactly what we find in the champions.

When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world—the world of fixed traits—success is about proving you're smart or

Only their continued motivation and commitment, along with their network of support, took them to the top.

the somebody–nobody syndrome. If I win, I'll be somebody; if I lose I'll be nobody.

Michael Jordan embraced his failures. In fact, in one of his favorite ads for Nike, he says: "I've missed more than nine thousand shots. I've lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot, and missed." You can be sure that each time, he went back and practiced the shot a hundred times.

How can one belief lead to all this—the love of challenge, belief in effort, resilience in the face of setbacks, and greater (more creative!) success? In the chapters that follow, you'll see exactly how this happens: how the mindsets change what people strive for and what they see as success. How they change the definition, significance, and impact of failure. And how they change the deepest meaning of effort.

Piensa qué te gustaría decir a ti, llegado el momento, y escoge tu mentalidad.

The problem was that these stories made it into an either–or. Either you have ability or you expend effort. And this is part of the fixed mindset. Effort is for those who don't have the ability. People with the fixed mindset tell us, "If you have to work at something, you must not be good at it." They add, "Things come easily to people who are true geniuses.

Uh-oh, it's the somebody-nobody syndrome. If I win, I'll be somebody; if I lose I'll be nobody.

How can one belief lead to all this—the love of challenge, belief in effort, resilience in the face of setbacks, and greater (more creative!) success?

Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed mindset— creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.

For Jordan, success stems from the mind. "The mental toughness and the heart are a lot stronger than some of the physical advantages you might have. I've always said that and I've always believed that." But

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

So telling children they're smart, in the end, made them feel dumber and act dumber, but claim they were smarter. I don't think this is what we're aiming for when we put positive labels—"gifted," "talented," "brilliant"—on people. We don't mean to rob them of their zest for challenge and their recipes for success. But that's the danger.

hay muchísima gente con mentalidad fija que cree que el rendimiento temprano de alguien ya te dice todo lo que hay que saber sobre su talento y su futuro.

Many of the most accomplished people of our era were considered by experts to have no future. Jackson Pollock, Marcel Proust, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Lucille Ball, and Charles Darwin were all thought to have little potential for their chosen fields. And in some of these cases, it may well have been true that they did not stand out from the crowd early on.

Of course, after the creative act no one cared about follow-through. That was beneath them.

Or, as his forerunner Binet recognized, it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

In the growth mindset, it's almost inconceivable to want something badly, to think you have a chance to achieve it, and then do nothing about it.

Binet recognized, it's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value. How

But those with the fixed mindset didn't want to expose their deficiencies. Instead, to feel smart in the short run, they