Quotes About Success

Regardless what you do or what business you're in, time is more often than not your fiercest competitor.

Besides having baseball and success in common they also had Claire Merritt Hodgson, a Georgia native and a Ziegfeld Follies girl who was Ruth's second wife. In her autobiography, The Babe and I, Mrs. Ruth said she had known Cobb "very well" as a teenager back in Athens, before he married Charlie, and for what it may be worth, Al Stump, in his second book on Cobb, suggests they were young lovers.

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.

The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.

Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.

But, like the man in the song, Alfred Roberts did well by doing good. The shop prospered.

An unavoidable side effect of ambition is to be gnawed by ambition anxiety about whether you're going to succeed. You're bound to feel it in your twenties and thirties. Put it away in your forties. By that time, you should have learned enough to recognize that fame and wealth are trivial—really, truly trivial—to a life well lived.

Here's the secret you should remember whenever you hear someone lamenting how tough it is to get ahead in the postindustrial global economy: Few people work nearly as hard as they could. The few who do have it made.

People are unequal in the abilities that lead to economic success in life. To the extent that inequality of wealth is grounded in the way people freely choose to conduct their lives, I do not find it troubling. People

Try hard. Be true. Enjoy. Godspeed.

Page 85: Results for the military stand apart from all civilian work settings and occupations. One relevant factor for explaining the military's success is presumably that each branch has its own minimum score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test required of all recruits. The Army requires a score at the 31st percentile or higher, equivalent to an IQ of 92.6 or more, which is roughly the top half of the African and Latin distributions.

People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned -- it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned -- and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

People need self-respect, that self respect must be earned – it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned – and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

The fact that I went from rags to bitches was just one of those quirks of fate written in the stars.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.

To hit the moon, you often have to aim for the sun.

Pride goeth before a fall, gentlemen. So in closin', I jest want to say that in life, or in any profession or business, it ain't how or where you start that counts - it's where you finish.

Relatable is the secret of success.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.