Quotes About Success

But what happens if we look back for support and don't get it? We become less confident about stepping into the unknown. We succeed less and fail more. We move two steps forward and three steps back.

The smarter you make the people who work for you look, the smarter you are going to look as a manager.

Effective selling is directly tied to timing, patience, and persistence

But in business there is no end to the game. There are no insurmountable leads. The competition always has time to catch up.

On October 23, 1963, Barefoot in the Park opened on Broadway. Just before his extremely nervous cast took the stage, Nichols gathered them for a final pep talk. "Everybody relax," Redford says he told them. "You know your positions, you know your laughs, you know your lines, you know where the comfort zones are. So enjoy yourselves, and remember: Everything depends on tonight.

A method is only as good as its measurable results

We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

You know you've made it in D.C. when someone says that--"It isn't clear what he does"--about you.

But just as they were spectacularly successful in stopping the growth of nuclear power, they were spectacularly unsuccessful in promoting the use of solar as an alternative

Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.

I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.

Ninety percent of our success as leaders will be determined by what's below the waterline. It's our leadership character that ultimately drives what we do, and why. It is a true reflection of who we really are as human beings.

Leadership character is the primary driver of your success as a leader." "What about skills?" Blake asked. "They are important, but the lack of skills is not what derails most leaders—skills are too easy to learn. It is ultimately leadership character that determines our opportunity for influence and impact.

The treatment of fundamentalism may be said to have succeeded; the patient survived. But at least for the life of the mind, what survived was a patient horribly disfigured by the cure itself.

the biggest driver of project success rates, it seems, is the clarity of strategic focus before any ideas are developed.

Whenever there is chaos and disorganization," Saks observed, "that is the time to make money.

In 1938, after eight years of experimentation, Nestlé launched Nescafé

The ones that win are the ones that ship.

From 1836 to 1868, only one candidate was elected to the presidency more than once—Abraham Lincoln.

Moreover, most mass movements are angry and gloomy movements, hostile toward well-adjusted, happy, and successful individuals. Again, this is evident

Every bestselling author was once completely unknown. A good book will eventually find its place in the world.

Love your customers more than your product and your employees more than your customers and you'll be wildly successful.

To be successful in an area, you have to respect the people who are successful in that area, or you are disrespecting the very thing that you want to become.