Quotes About Success

La inferioridad de muchos autodenominados intelectuales se manifiesta precisamente en el hecho de que no reconocen qué capacidad y poder de razonamiento se requieren para desarrollar y operar con éxito una empresa comercial.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success. This is the fundamental error from which Fascism suffers and which will ultimately cause its downfall.

El sistema de ganancias hace prosperar a esos hombres que han tenido éxito en llenar las necesidades de las personas de la mejor y más barata manera posible. La riqueza solo puede adquirirse sirviendo a los consumidores. Los capitalistas pierden sus fondos tan pronto como no los invierten en aquellas líneas en las que satisfacen mejor las demandas del público.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

Beliefs are the roads we take to reach our dreams. Believe you can do something—or believe you can't—and you'll be right every time.

Following my mother's footsteps was the surest way out.

You are not an impostor," Sam Hallowell told me. "You are not there because of luck, or because you happened to be in the right place at the right moment, or because someone like me had connections. You are there because you are you, and that is a remarkable accomplishment in itself.

Success would come only at the expense of losing her cool, at the risk of turning into someone she did not want to be.

Most of us think the word racism is synonymous with the word prejudice. But racism is more than just discrimination based on skin color. It's also about who has institutional power. Just as racism creates disadvantages for people of color that make success harder to achieve, it also gives advantages to white people that make success easier to achieve. It's hard to see those advantages, much less own up to them. And that, I realized, was why I had to write this book.

unlike the rest of the free world, I didn't get here by accident.

Fake it until you make it, she said.

I should have known from watching Henry work at the office: programmers moved slowly and deliberately, and then waited to see the reaction. And if they did not succeed the first time, they would try over and over again, until they broke through that fifth dimension and got it right.

She loved knowing that if she worked hard enough, at the end there was going to be an answer that made sense.

He wondered why, after years of wanting to stand at the very top, he felt so goddamned empty.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

Study the lives of highly successful people from any corner of life, across history, in any environment, and you will discover they share one trait: They keep moving forward. Sometimes slowly. Often with great difficulty. Frequently after painful mistakes, defeats, or failures. Success is less about talent and opportunities, and more about commitment and motivation.

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

You can be the best worker, the smartest in your field, a person who has won awards for your dedication and excellence—but if you don't somehow let people know about your talents, they won't ever call you or ask for your help.

Every man in a big position knows in his own heart that forces entirely outside himself have played a large part in his making." —Bruce Barton, 1928   "Many

Money doesn't have beliefs about you. You have beliefs about money. —Dr. Joe Vitale

If you don't pay more now for a pair of shoes than you used to spend on a car, your prosperity consciousness needs work. —RANDY GAGE, 101 KEYS TO YOUR PROSPERITY, WWW.MYPROSPERITYSECRETS.COM

Remember, however, that your willingness to change and your success is proportional to the knowledge you obtain. This

Don't just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win; you were born for greatness; you were created to be a champion in life.

I see it routinely when I get asked to speak at conferences. I'm supposed to come cheap because, after all, I'm just a farmer. If you're smart and capable, you become a doctor, engineer, lawyer, computer technician --- anything white collar. For goodness' sake, don't wear a blue collar. That makes your mother and me a failure and our friends will wonder about our family.