Quotes About Success

I could become a businessman and run some big corporation, I'd scramble and maneuver until I was at the top of everything and what would I have? Nothing.

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

If you had any brains, you'd be in a real career, like selling life insurance.

You don't know what would have happened if I hadn't pushed. Nobody knows. I did it the way I did it, and it worked. Above all, it worked.

So our reliance on the computers caused the failure of the mission? asked the expendable. The mission didn't fail, said Ram. It succeeded nineteen times. We're just the exhaust trail.

Let me tell you about Ender. He's all about beating the other guys. Not just winning-he has to beat the other guy into the ground or he isn't happy.

An interesting side effect of the battle was that Ender emerged at the top of the soldier efficiency list. Since he hadn't fired a shot, he had a perfect record on shooting—no misses at all. And since he had never been eliminated or disabled, his percentage there was excellent. No one else came close. It made a lot of boys laugh, and others were angry, but on the prized efficiency list, Ender was now the leader.

All he had to do was watch the game and understand how things worked, and then he could use the system, and even excel.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, though Ender. You lose friends.

Focus too closely on the goal you haven't accomplished, and you'll fail to notice the victories you achieve along the way.

Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Sólo hay una cosa que hará que dejen de odiarte. Y esa cosa es ser tan bueno en todo lo que hagas que no puedan ignorarte. Les he dicho que eres el mejor. ¡Mejor que lo seas!

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

On the contrary—there can be no greater honor to a parent than to have a child who is greater.

Orson Scott Card

The key. The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hands on every key.

And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich. Money and talent aren't the same thing. That's because you can inherit money that was earned by your ancestors, said Sister Carlotta. And everybody recognizes the value of money, while only select groups recognize the value of talent.

You killed more people than anybody in history.' 'Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

said Ender cheerfully.

but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing

Ambition leads you to great risk. But ambition never leads you to certain destruction." "Unless you're a fool.

I didn't fight with honor,' Ender added. 'I fought to win.