Quotes About Success

To succeed, a business must not only develop profit and loss measures, but also determine their underlying drivers, in order to understand what is adding value, what is not, and why. This knowledge informs its vision and strategies, leads to innovations, creates opportunities to eliminate waste, and guides continuous improvement.

Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

No man e'er was glorious, who was not laborious.

Hard work is rewarding beyond gold. Sweating is living.

I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it's not where you're going to find your sense of completion.

Luck has a peculiar habit of connecting with the man on the move...

No one will dispute me when I say that the only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

A pair of tacos is always a winning hand.

Each morning begins with the triumph and celebration of waking to a new day and the blessing of being able to get out of bed. What better way to start the day than with success like that?

Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because, when opportunity knocks, they are out looking for four-leaf clovers.

There are lots of opport?nities o?t there. And yo? know what's missing.

The reason most people do not recognize an opportunity when they meet it is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like Hard Work.

You can't hit a home run every time.

The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an encore.

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise...

Don't quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port.

The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.

It cannot be denied, but outward accidents conduce much to fortune; favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue: but chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands: "Faber quisque fortunæ suæ," saith the poet...

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will always get ahead. Edwin Markham said, "At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm." The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person.

Robert Wilmott was responsible for no small part of the Morro Castle's success. Passengers frequently made sure that he was still in command of the ship before buying a ticket. He was the perfect ship's captain for passengers who had never been on anything bigger than the ferryboat to Staten Island.