Quotes About Success

You must reject common thinking if you want to accomplish uncommon results.

greatest enemy to tomorrow's success is sometimes today's success.

When you accomplish something that you once believed was impossible, it makes you a new person. It changes the way you see yourself and the world.

The book you don't read can't help you; the seminar you won't attend can't change your life. The business gets better when you get better. Never wish it were easier, wish you were better.

A great dream with a bad team is nothing more than a nightmare.

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training," says (Seth) Godin. "There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight…every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little." There is no magic solution to success.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility . . . In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

believe leadership is servanthood. It's my responsibility to make sure my people have what they need to succeed and get their work done.

When talented teams don't win, examine the leadership.

Success consists of a series of little daily victories." —Laddie F. Hutar

Predetermine a course of action. Lay out your goals. Adjust your priorities. Notify key personnel. Allow time for acceptance. Head into action. Expect problems. Always point to the successes.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years. To become someone who can mine a lot of gold, you need to keep repeating the process of good thinking.

Success is . . . knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you.

Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure.

distinct vision, a precise plan, plenty of resources, and incredible leadership, but if you don't have the right people, you're not going to get anywhere.

There is no achievement without failure.

To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it.

En Harvard y otras universidades, estudiaron la importancia de la actitud en el éxito de las personas. Se descubrió que la actitud era mucho más importante que la inteligencia, la educación, el talento especial o la suerte. De hecho, se llegó a la conclusión de que hasta un 85% del éxito en la vida se debe a tener una actitud positiva y educable, mientras que sólo un 15% se debe a la capacidad.

A great team with no bench eventually collapses. The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork

If you lead a team, start asking questions and really listening. Start valuing the contributions of your teammates ahead of your own. And remember that when the best idea wins, so does the entire team.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking." —DAVID SCHWARTZ

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Failure isn't failure if you do better the next time.