Quotes About Success

The most important piece is to confirm what has been successful (so it will be repeated) and simultaneously assert the learner's competence so she will have the confidence to consider new

Wat ik ooit voor mezelf heb gedacht is niets; ik ben niet meer dan wat me gelukt is tegen jullie te zeggen.

In fact, other than certain aspects of low-level vision, I know of no success at relating systematicities of mental representations to the details of neural architecture.14

Every good choice makes the next one easier and more delightful.

The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

Rich doesn't guarantee smart.

You have to keep your priorities straight, if you plan to do well in stocks.

If my favorite Internet company sells for $30 a share, and yours sells for $10, then people who focus on price would say that mine is the superior company. This is a dangerous delusion. What Mr. Market pays for a stock today or next week doesn't tell you which company has the best chance to succeed two to three years down the information superhighway.

Ultimately it is not the stock market nor even the companies themselves that determine an investor's fate. It is the investor.

If you're considering a stock on the strength of some specific product that a company makes, the first thing to find out is: What effect will the success of the product have on the company's bottom line?

My advice for the next decade: Keep on the lookout for tomorrow's big baggers. You're likely to find one.

So while the smaller fast growers risk extinction, the larger fast growers risk a rapid devaluation when they begin to falter.

To make this spectacular showing, you only had to find one big winner out of eleven. The more right you are about any one stock, the more wrong you can be on all the others and still triumph as an investor.

The offspring of immigrant factory workers had a chance to go to college and become doctors, lawyers, executives, and even owners of the very companies where their parents and grandparents worked long hours for low pay.

If I learned anything … it is the notion that we need to be working on all different parts of the system in order to successfully change the whole system

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Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

In addition, Elvis carried within him a millstone that impeded his initial striving toward musical expression: he didn't really feel deserving. All his life Presley was burdened by deep inner fears of success. He 138 THE INNER ELVIS expected all he had accomplished to evaporate instantly, thrusting him back into the pit of poverty from which he came. He felt this fear of failure from the inception of his career.

You would have more hope of success as a refugee begging asylum from Priti Patel than you would as an honest copper dragged deep into the maw of an internal investigation.

Once a small win has been accomplished, forces are set in motion that favor another small win.

According to Weick, "a series of wins at small but significant tasks … reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance.

whatever his circumstances and surroundings, it was only a dead imagination that could call him a failure.

fundamental nature of success: it's hidden among failures.

fail and fail often—but keep the cost of each failure low, so that you can keep going until you succeed.