Quotes About Success

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

Setbacks are stepping stones to something better.

What makes capitalism succeed is not chiefly its structure of incentives but its use of knowledge and experience.

Under capitalism, economic power flows not to the intellectual, who manipulates ideas and basks in their light, but to the man who gives himself to his ideas and tests them with his own wealth and work.

Renaissance's Medallion Fund has reportedly averaged a yield of roughly 40 percent every year, through up and down markets,

Lupin, like Mr. Huttle, has original and sometimes wonderful ideas; but it is those ideas that are so dangerous.  They make men extremely rich or extremely poor.  They make or break men.  I always feel people are happier who live a simple unsophisticated life.  I believe I am happy because I am not ambitious.

In many cases, your success is going to depend on your ability to think in reverse, something Trump is a master of. Thinking in reverse comes into play when you make a proposal that is so outrageous that you know it has no chance of acceptance in its raw form and then reversing your course and agreeing to modify your proposal to make it more palatable for the other side.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

Everyone is a loser. Winners are just losers with more patience.

The fiercely competitive are fierce because they don't see themselves as competitive.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich, or wise.

Prosperity lets go the bridle.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

You don't have to go to college to be a success ... We need the people who run the offices, the people who do the hard physical work of our society.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.