Quotes About Success

enduring, successful companies adhered strictly to a fundamental set of principles that guided their behaviors and decisions over time, preserving the essence of the organization.

Building an effective, cohesive team is extremely hard. But it's also simple.

How will we succeed? Or put another way, How will we make decisions in a purposeful, intentional, and unique way that allow us to maximize our success and differentiate us from our competitors?

Teamwork remains the one sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped.

The ultimate test of a great team is results.

his job is to create the best team possible, not to shepherd the careers of individual

These are the six questions: 1. Why do we exist? 2. How do we behave? 3. What do we do? 4. How will we succeed? 5. What is most important, right now? 6. Who must do what?

and experienced executives than our competitors

Let us drink to the renewed success of Irish arms, and confusion to the Pope.

that mean in terms of weekly income?

None of this depressed Picasso, nor yet Kahnweiler: there is a kind of abuse that is a guarantee of excellence and almost of success, for surely people do not utter such shrill and vehement protests unless some Freudian resistance is at work—unless at some level they are aware of the validity of what they see.

The operation, performed on an immensely obese, timid patient, was far more intricate than they had expected; yet finally it was done, and not only was it successful in itself, but there was a real likelihood that the man might live.

The twenty years have nearly passed, and soon perhaps the voice of authority, speaking through Le Corbusier, will be heard: but so far the UNESCO picture is not looked upon as one of Picasso's successes.

The mystery of life is not salved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

Winning's never about what anyone else does. It's something that happens between you and yourself. You don't look to the left or the right. You just jump in the water and swim with everything you have. You swim for your life, Ma, and when you reach the finish line and look up, whoever you thought you were competing against is gone. Poof.

Winning's never about what anyone else does. It's something that happens between you and yourself.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

for a creative person starting out on a career, try not thinking about film or media or whatever. think about money.

Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life? People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (the future). Very simply, they get overtaken by those who continually strive to be better than they are.

If you are thinking, My co-workers and I don't compete, we are one big happy family, brace yourself for a cold splash of reality. You can establish friendships in the workplace, but work at times will be a game with winners and losers. If you don't realize that, you are being naïve, and you are going to get hurt and taken advantage of.

But determination can make the miraculous possible.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Nothing in life ever was a complete and one hundred per cent success, but often one could well afford to settle for less, and this would seem to be the greatest lesson one could learn in life.