Quotes About Success

My original intention with The 4-Hour Workweek (4HWW), The 4-Hour Body (4HB), and The 4-Hour Chef (4HC) was to create a trilogy themed after Ben Franklin's famous quote: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." People constantly ask me, "What would you put in The 4-Hour Workweek if you were to write it again? How would you update it?" Ditto for 4HB and 4HC. Tools of Titans contains most of the answers for all three.

One of the world's great investors once said to me, "Tom, what do you consider the number-one failing of CEOs?" After I hemmed and hawed, he said, "They don't read enough.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." —James Cameron "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." —Colonel David Hackworth "Not my circus. Not my monkeys." —Polish proverb

So I think, every day, it's something to reflect on and think about 'How do I become less competitive in order that I can become more successful?

can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

It is possible to know all there is to know about a subject—medicine, for example—but if you don't have M.D. at the end of your name, few will listen. The M.D. is what I term a "credibility indicator." The so-called expert with the most credibility indicators, whether acronyms or affiliations, is often the most successful in the marketplace, even if other candidates have more in-depth knowledge. This is a matter of superior positioning, not deception.

Dice que la clave del éxito es: "Sé tan bueno que no puedan ignorarte"».

A veces también puedes convertir algo del montón en un producto estrella inventando una categoría nueva.

D: To reach the big pay-off, whether IPO, acquisition, retirement, or other pot of gold. NR: To think big but ensure payday comes every day: cash flow first, big payday second.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children . . . to leave the world a bit better . . . to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; this is to have succeeded.

Peter ha escrito en otro lugar: «El próximo Bill Gates no creará un sistema operativo. El próximo Larry Page o Serguéi Brin no hará un buscador de internet. Y el próximo Mark Zuckerberg no creará una red social. Si copias a estos tipos, no estás aprendiendo nada de ellos».

método de las afirmaciones de Scott Adams

ANY TIME I'M TELLING MYSELF, 'BUT I'M MAKING SO MUCH MONEY,' THAT'S A WARNING SIGN THAT I'M DOING THE WRONG THING.

after Ben Franklin's famous quote: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy,

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. —Ralph Waldo Emerson The system is the solution. —AT&T

Ser un emprendedor es estar dispuesto a hacer un trabajo que nadie más quiere hacer [para] poder vivir el resto de tu vida haciendo lo que quieras hacer.»

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." It's a short reminder that success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take.

I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.

Creo que el fracaso está muy sobrevalorado. La mayoría de los negocios fracasa por más de una razón. Así que, cuando un negocio fracasa, no sueles aprender nada en absoluto,

Normalmente nunca quieres formar parte de una tendencia popular. No quieres ser la cuarta empresa que vende comida para mascotas por internet a finales de la década de 1990. No quieres ser la decimosegunda empresa de paneles solares de la última década. Y no quieres ser la enésima empresa de ninguna tendencia en particular.

La cuestión, por tanto, es: ¿Cómo consigo alcanzar el estilo de vida de libertad absoluta que tienen los millonarios sin tener un millón de dólares de partida?

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Okay, if we do X today, what does that result in tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now?' The metaphor I think of the most—because it's simple—is the dog chasing the car. What does the dog do if he catches the car? He doesn't have a plan for it. So I find it just as often on the entrepreneurial side. People don't plan for success.