Quotes About Success

We don't consider any man successful until he has died well.

Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

In other words, you want to become totally bourgeois. You people have all been brainwashed. I imagine that you'd like to become a success or something equally vile.

All signs were pointing upward; his wheel was revolving skyward.

My excellence confused them

thought you'd make Levy Pants nationwide.

There is nothing reliable to be learned about making money. If there were, study would be intense and everyone with a positive IQ would be rich.

The rule will often be here reiterated: financial genius is before the fall. I

The rule will often be here reiterated: financial genius is before the fall.

You can do more! A lot more. If you want a...record you can be proud of, you'll do a heck of a lot more than just what you have to.

Looking back now across fifteen years, I could see with good clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.

I began at that point the emotional examination to note how far my convalescence had gone — I was taller, bigger generally in relation to these stairs, I had more money and success and "security" than in the days when specters seemed to go up and down with me.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

There's room at the top, they are telling you still. But first you must learn how to smile as you kill!

Like poles on tightropes, temperament makes the difference between slips and safe arrivals.

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. HENRY MITCHELL

If at first you don't succeed - you haven't planned properly!

In the United States, the story is particularly one of a handful of extraordinary people, of whom Paul Lewis is one.

Success consists of a series of little daily victories.

The best leaders are humble enough to realise their victories depend upon their people.

Results: Create Victories Through Multiplication When you work together with your teammates, you can do remarkable things. If you work alone, you leave a lot of victories on the table.

Haven't you known highly talented people who have squandered their potential because they wouldn't do anything? And don't you know people less talented than you who are more successful? That is often due, in part, to commitment.

His general shotmaking ability is optimum. He will try anything. "Look at the way he hit that ball, gave it the casual play," Graebner says to himself. "Instead of trying a silly shot and missing it, he tries a silly shot and makes it." If Ashe wins the next point, he will have broken Graebner, and the match will be, in effect, even.