Quotes About Success

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

My week beats your year.

Success in many of life's most important endeavors begins with a commitment to act like the person you hope to become.

Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.

I communicate that philosophy to my students frequently, to remind them that whenever I ask them to do something, my goal is to help them be successful—not simply to issue orders. Once

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.

In my day, they were not interested in making boys happy. Those schools were made for the types of men who would become quite successful. It was brutal. They are not brutal today. They are country clubs today.

She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven.

she had made a discovery about life which he himself had made long since … that there is nothing of such force as the power of a person content merely to be himself, nothing so invincible as the power of simple honesty, nothing so successful as the life of one who runs alone. Somewhere

she had made a discovery about life which he himself had made long since … that there is nothing of such force as the power of a person content merely to be himself, nothing so invincible as the power of simple honesty, nothing so successful as the life of one who runs alone. Somewhere" ? Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.