Quotes About Success

happiness is an exclusive quality of the soul. Thus, a body  that  attains  all  the  material  successes  it  longs  for—money,  power,  fame, etc.—often belongs to an unhappy person. Happiness depends totally on the degree of growth and development attained by the soul, the real person. The

The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.

Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you.

The tallest blade of grass is the surest to be cut.

If the faith of underachievement holds anything to be true, it's that by not striving to be better than someone else, you're free to better yourself.

I never wanted to be famous; I only wanted to be great.

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

Luck is the dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

I was an overnight success all right, but thirty years is a long, long night. I

There's almost nothing you can't accomplish if you set your mind to it.

I believe that if you think small, you'll stay small. Getting

When I flew back to Chicago that fateful day in 1954, I had a freshly signed contract with the McDonald brothers in my briefcase. I was a battle-scarred veteran of the business wars, but I was still eager to go into action. I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns. But I was convinced that the best was ahead of me.

You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well. We demonstrated this emphasis on details, and saw it pay off, in our approach to hamburger patties.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. —Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.

A little bit of luck helps, yes, but the key element, which too many in our affluent society have forgotten, is still hard work—grinding it out. Ray

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If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.