Quotes About Success

It's easier to accumulate wealth if you don't live in a high-status neighborhood.

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

If your goal is to become financially secure, you'll likely attain it…. But if your motive is to make money to spend money on the good life,… you're never gonna make it.

Money should never change one's values…. Making money is only a report card. It's a way to tell how you're doing.

Have you ever noticed those people whom you see jogging day after day? They are the ones who seem not to need to jog. But that's why they are fit. Those who are wealthy work at staying financially fit. But those who are not financially fit do little to change their status.

Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.

Great offense and poor defense translate into under accumulation of wealth.

Financially independent people are happier than those in their same income/age cohort who are not financially secure.

Allocating time and money in the pursuit of looking superior often has a predictable outcome: inferior economic achievement. What are three words that profile the affluent? FRUGAL FRUGAL FRUGAL

The "some college," "four-year college graduate," and "no college" types who have high incomes often had a head start on many well-educated workers.

It's amazing what you can do when you set your mind to it. You'll be surprised how many sales calls you can make when you have no alternative except to succeed.

Victor wants his children to become physicians, lawyers, accountants, executives, and so on. But in so encouraging them, Victor essentially discourages his children from becoming entrepreneurs. He unknowingly encourages them to postpone their entry into the labor market. And, of course, he encourages them to reject his lifestyle of thrift and a self-imposed environment of scarcity.

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Good design is good business.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Agriculture, manufacturers, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself?

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.