Quotes About Success

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there's enough room for all of us to succeed.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

If you want a good life, don't succeed at anything too early or too well. And don't choose a profession that attracts money or attention. The minute people want to see you doing what you do, you're finished.

No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

There's a correct way to succeed. The incorrect way is to do things incorrectly.

We had a mission at PayPal - which was to create a new financial system, a new world currency, and we failed. We were a financial success, but we didn't succeed at the purpose of our company.

If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.

Education is not about thinning the herd. Education is about helping every student succeed.

Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.