Quotes About Success

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

I never thought about being famous.

There will always be another goal, another prospect.

Time seemed to slow down and stretch out, like a quiet, slow passage in a piece of music. It occurred to me then that I could never be a soldier. The waiting would kill me. It's ironic, I know. I can spend months on a work, whole weeks minutely carving some tiny part of it. I am obsessive with detail, and never care how long it takes to get something perfect, because the success of the whole might depend on one small part.

This is number one, Mr. Namath.

It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

Contrary to the popular view, Marx did not predict the formation of communist countries, with which he is so closely identified. Rather, he predicted that capitalism would be utterly successful on a number of fronts.

Fake it 'til you make it.

If a runner is scoring the winning run in a game (because it is the last half of the last inning of the game and his run will put his team ahead), the batter in that play must also touch first base. The batter cannot give up running because he thinks his team has already won.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

No Bell Prize

What Do You Want to Be?

We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

But it wasn't money they were going to keep," Brewer said. "We've now collected data on 150 participants. Animals need a reward to motivate them, but humans usually find motivation in just trying to succeed at a task. That's a big difference between rats and humans.

My competitive instincts flaring, I started shouting to get myself pumped up between the twenty-item sequences. Laugh if you like, but I actually began imitating the voice of a preacher. "Reach up to touch heaven! Reach now, brother Daniel!" And when I finally did reach and remain at 3-back for a couple sequences in a row—then was promoted to 4-back a single time—I sang out, "I have been to the mountaintop!" But progress was in fits and starts.

Bright eyed, bushy tailed and fresh faced. These kids were Lawrences and Robbies that hadn't been in the league long enough to mature into Larrys and Bobs. They still had that earnest, hopeful glow like someone who cared was watching. Fame and endorsement deals would start flooding in if they could just squeeze out a triple.

I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity.

The most important thing to remember, the guiding principle, is to try to keep your son's self-esteem intact while he is in school. That is the real risk to his success and to his mental health. Once he's out of school, the world will be different. He'll find a niche where the fact that he can't spell well, or didn't read until he was eight, won't matter. But if he starts to hate himself because he isn't good at

schoolwork, he'll fall into a hole that he'll be digging himself out of for the rest of his life.

I came to Canada as a teenager with no money, no contacts, and no knowledge of English.

You can't win the race of fulfillment running on the track of achievement.

When you focus on making a meaningful impact on others, money comes faster, more naturally, and with less effort.