Quotes About Success

the more successful change transformations were more likely to set behavioral goals: 89 percent of the top third versus only 33 percent of the bottom third. For instance, a behavioral goal might be that project teams would meet once a week

Habits are behavioral autopilot, and that's why they're such a critical tool for leaders. Leaders who can instill habits that reinforce their teams' goals are essentially making progress for free.

Small targets lead to small victories, and small victories can often trigger a positive spiral of behavior.

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

What's working, and how can we do more of it?" Sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet, in the real world, this obvious question is almost never asked. Instead, the question we ask is more problem focused: "What's broken, and how do we fix it?

Each day I walked into the office and asked myself, "If I had to compete against lululemon, what would I do?" This allowed me to cannibalize what was working today for what would be best for the future.

Who are you guys?! I just made a shitload of money off you!

It's a rare man—and an even rarer ruler—that can remain untouched by jealousy in the face of a peer's sudden prosperity.

Fame: it's a drug more potent than opium.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.'

Fortune has hair in front but is bald behind.

Blockbusters are the exception, not the rule, and yet we see an entire industry through their rarefied air.

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

entrepreneurship has meant either setting up a corner grocery shop or some other sort of modest local business or, more rarely, a total pie-in-the-sky crapshoot around an idea that is more likely to bring ruination than riches.

Just think of the acclaim! The feelings of satisfaction! The vastly increased dating opportunities!

Our greatest fear should not be that we won't succeed, but rather that we will succeed at something that doesn't matter.

To succeed without meaning is not to succeed at all.

Success is the product of many components, of which one of the most prominent is focus.

What really needs to be learned from other successful leaders is their thought processes, their reasons, their methods of emotional control, their strategies, their abilities in dealing with other people, their subtle touches.

if the wrong people are not criticizing you, then you may not be doing the right things!

Nothing of significance was ever achieved without negative input from other people.

Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.

The idea itself is the ten percent inspiration; the hammering it into a viable, successful, memorable story is the ninety percent perspiration that follows.