Quotes About Success

The average person goes to work and does just enough to keep from being fired, but an unstoppable person, a HUNGRY person, does more than they get paid for.

You must tell yourself, "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it.

High Standards for High Achievement

the value of a personal fortune is better understood in relation to the total gross national product of an individual's era. By that measure, Carnegie was worth $112 billion in his day, far ahead of Bill Gates ($85 billion), Sam Walton ($42 billion), or Warren Buffett ($31 billion).

Ebenezer Scrooge is no castoff drunk, but the very emblem of economic achievement.

Machiavelli himself famously put it: "All armed prophets have conquered, and unarmed prophets have come to grief."9

IF you can approach Pilates as a business and have awareness of your own monetary needs, there is no reason why you can't make money.

he wasn't a failure. He made for himself a world fit for himself to live in.

Ambition's true reward can only be gotten without ambition's trade.

Pursue excellence rather than fame -- it will get you farther faster, and will be way more satisfying.

The key to success in any endeavor: 1) Recognize that life consists of patterns 2) Figure out what those patterns are 3) Work those patterns to your advantage

From Christ's perspective, success isn't measured by how much we do, how much we earn, or how much we have, but by how well we love and what kind of person we're becoming in the midst of life's activities.

How much we get done and how well we can do it are the benchmarks of a good day or professional success. The more efficiently we produce, the better we feel. The downside, however, is that continued good feelings depend on keeping up the momentum of doing more. This doesn't come without a cost.

It's not enough just to do those things anymore; what you must do instead if you want success on any large scale is either figure out a way of getting yourself associated in the audience's mind with their pieties and their sense of 'community,' i.e. ram it home that you're one of THEM; or, alternately, deck and bake yourself into an image configuration so blatant or outrageous that you become a culture myth.

Sure, you can live out your dreams, but it'll only turn you into a monster.

He had a goatee that was maybe growing into something that was more than a goatee, which made him look like an angry barista at an indie coffee shop whose dreams of becoming a successful screenwriter were dwindling by the hour.

You know her parents are lawyers? Entertainment lawyers. Fantastically rich, huge house in Brentwood, working all the time, no discernible emotional life whatsoever.

She was used to doing a lot with a little. Now that she had a lot, she was going to work wonders with it. And she did.

Alice wasn't just the competition, someone whose only purpose in life was to succeed and by doing so subtract from his happiness. She was a person with her own hopes and feelings and nightmares. In her own way she was as lost as he was.

The thing to do is to go on, in the same suave tone, from uttering a series of banalities to expressing a new and dangerous thought, without any break. If you succeed in this, the business is done. The reader will not forget - the new words will plague and torment him until he has accepted them.

Don't be afraid to start at the bottom of the ladder. And have the courage to climb to the top.

I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children's book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That day, April 17, 1996, was one of the happiest in my life.

I didn't think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I'd written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought it might sell a few thousand copies and go out of print. I thought if I was lucky I could write more books and get them published, too. I still pinch myself over the way things have worked out.

Take the time to understand what's behind your success. It's the best way to ensure it will continue.