Quotes About Success

Doesn't matter where you go in the world—if you're good at your job, people who are good enough at theirs to see it will respect you for it.

The reward for work well-done is more work.

We're stunning—and we need to be, if we're to make a good impression and accomplish our goals. It's vain, it's stupid, and it's shallow, but that makes it no less true.

Compartmentalize and conquer.

I wonder what it says about me that pizza has been one of the better long-term investments in my career.

The reward for work well-done is more work. "Ain't that the truth," I muttered. I stuffed the book back in my pocket and hit the road again.

You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then move on to the next.

Visionary companies pursue a cluster of objectives, of which making money is only one—and not necessarily the primary one.

A culture of discipline is not a principle of business; it is a principle of greatness.

When you marry operating excellence with innovation, you multiply the value of your creativity.

by breakthrough, broken into three broad stages: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined

In no case do we have a company that just happened to be sitting on the nose cone of a rocket when it took off.

As melhores pessoas anseiam pela meritocracia, enquanto as pessoas medíocres tem medo dela.

O melhor sinal da riqueza não é manter uma agenda lotada, mas ter tempo disponível para se concentrar no que é importante.

Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was... just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945].... And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.

It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.

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God's approval should be your standard for success.

It's not how you start that's important, but how well you finish!

Let your past failures prepare you for future victories.

Given intelligence, success in any area has always struck me as a matter of the level of attention, excluding the arts, of course, which seem to be involved in a mystery known only to their practitioners, if, indeed, they know themselves. You can read a Chekhov story, a Shakespeare sonnet, or listen to a Mozart sonata a dozen times and you'll still be left twiddling your thumbs in mute admiration.

I had met Jack Kerouac a couple of times and it mystified me that his recent success with On the Road meant only that he had freedom to become hopelessly drunk.

The more Wayne inhabited Edison, the more he wondered how a man cultivates a stubborn streak so pronounced that it transforms a daily barrage of failures into stimulants.

You need the combination of know-how and motivation.