Quotes About Success

Eisenhower instinctively felt that the gossamer tissue of personal relationships counted for far more than the formal architecture of his table of organization in determining the success or failure of his command. "The problem of establishing unity in any allied command," he explained to Lord Louis Mountbatten, "involves the human equation.

Eisenhower, in short, had perfected the art of playing against his assigned role, first as a nonmilitary general and later as a nonpolitical president. This deliberately cultivated style had proved enormously successful in war. How would it work in the White House?

Franklin's own idea was more expansive: he believed in encouraging and providing opportunities for all people to succeed based on their diligence

Diligence is the mother of good luck 

slow and steady diligence is the true way to wealth.

There is an ascendant feeling among the people that all achievement should be measured in human happiness.

But literacy didn't make you smart, just like, as Twill had already figured out, money didn't make you rich.

Not for the first time in my life I had made it to the top. For some reason this made me hanker for a chili dog with chopped onions under a blanket of processed American cheese.

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capabilities.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

The more you learn, the more you earn.

In fact, when Warren Buffett was once asked about the key to success, he pointed to a stack of nearby books and said, "Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.

Thomas J. Watson Sr. of IBM followed the same rule: "I'm no genius," he said. "I'm smart in spots—but I stay around those spots.")

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

If you see somebody with even reasonable intelligence and a terrific passion for what they do and who can get people around them to march, even when those people can't see over the top of the next hill, things are gonna happen

Talking to Time Magazine a few years back, Peter Drucker got to the heart of things: "I will tell you a secret: Dealmaking beats working. Dealmaking is exciting and fun, and working is grubby. Running anything is primarily an enormous amount of grubby detail work . . . dealmaking is romantic, sexy. That's why you have deals that make no sense.