Quotes About Success

El secreto de mi éxito es que de joven descubrí que no era Dios».

Les perdants, comme les autodidactes, ont toujours des connaissances plus vastes que les gagnants, pour gagner il faut savoir une seule chose et ne pas perdre son temps à les connaître toutes. Le plaisir de l'érudition est réservé aux perdants.

Los perdedores y los autodidactas siempre saben mucho más que los ganadores. Si quieres ganar, tienes que concentrarte en un solo objetivo, y más te vale no perder el tiempo en saber más: el placer de la erudición está reservado a los perdedores.»

They wish to build a new and better world, and I would be glad if they could succeed, and if I saw any hope of success I would join them. I ask for their plans, and they offer me vague dreams, in which as a man of affairs, I see no practicality. Is is like the the end of Das Rheingold: there is Valhalla, very beautiful, but only a rainbow bridge on which to get to it, and while the gods ma be able to walk on a rainbow, my investors and working people cannot.

The very freedom we are so proud of is their assurance of success; we are made impotent by it, and cannot imagine taking action against those who use their freedom to destroy ours.

The declaration of Belgian neutrality had been one of Hitler's great diplomatic successes, very-little appreciated by the outside world. It left France with the northern part of her border exposed; the French armies could enter Belgium only after the German armies had done so, and would thus have no time to prepare positions.

was one of the fixed laws of the universe that Americans could beat Europeans at anything, once they put their minds to it.

Somebody was needed to point out to them that even though they had had to quit, they had not failed entirely. If they had published sound ideas and had found readers, their ideas would live in other minds and spawn and reproduce themselves after the manner of ideas.

Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

This book has only modest goals: to remind us that success is only one of the outcomes of our ceaseless quest for invention; that failure can follow initial acceptance; that the bold dreams of market dominance may remain unrealized; and that even after generations of (sometimes intensifying) efforts, we may not be any closer to the commercial applications first envisaged decades ago. And what is true about the past is, despite recent claims to the contrary, likely to be repeated in the future.

give it your best shot. And if you fail? What is it they say? "Try again. Fail better.

Positive thoughts about life were connected to love and success. If A equaled C, and B equaled C, then A and B had to be the same. Food was life.

Perfectionism really is the enemy of happiness and success.

Strivers are driven to test themselves over and over again. They don't rest on their accomplishments. Success urges them to reach higher, take bigger risks. If they fail, they pull themselves back up. Ambition is the essence of human evolution. Strivers adapt to their changing environment.

As I just stated, one of the most useful beliefs of successful trading is that when you don't follow your written rules, then you've made a mistake. In addition, if you don't have such written rules, then everything you do is a mistake.

We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes.

We realized that life, even the worst life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrows, successes and failures, and there was no need to fear the failures more than the successes.

So I've got five books, a building, and a hundred bucks. I'm starting my business tomorrow.

Goals without routines are wishes; routines without goals are aimless. The most successful business leaders have a clear vision and the disciplines (routines) to make it a reality. "Routine sets you free.

I'm always amazed how overnight successes take a helluva long time.

Graham Weston.

At 5% pretax profit, your business is on life support. • At 10% pretax profit, the business is doing well but has some untapped potential. • At 15% pretax profit, the business is in great shape. • Anything above 15% indicates that you should earn it while you can. The market will figure out what's going on, competition will show up, and you will eventually get pushed back.

Jim Collins, author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… And Others Don't

Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, and cash flow is king." You