Quotes About Success

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.

I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.

I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.

I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.

Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work.

Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.

The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.

Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

If you work hard, it will pay off.