Quotes About Success

What is intuitive to most parents was clarified by biological research: families matter. In the last two decades, scientists in the area of attachment research have shown just how dependent children are on the parents and close extended family for life success.

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.

Effort means nothing. Execution is everything.

Only the weak rest on their laurels and dote on past triumphs.

Keep in mind that no matter how successful you were in dancing your animal, that in itself is not proof that you still have its power. You may only be dancing a memory. A successful experience does suggest, however, that you may have at least had such a guardian spirit in the past, if not now. The dancing itself, however, is no proof in itself, one way or another.

When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.

Good quarterbacks were hard to find. Great quarterbacks were untouchable. Quarterbacks who understood the cap game and how to motivate their teammates were perhaps one of a kind.

Special teams, field position, and situational football are all Belichick staples

They'd pulled off the biggest single-season turnaround, a forty-two-win improvement, in the history of the sport.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.

secret police had achieved "significant operational success" by inserting malware into cheap Russian IT games.

It is a remarkable achievement, but the neurosurgeons seem oblivious to it all. They have a job. The job requires skill. The job does not require emotional involvement. They do the job. Surgery was a success? That's nice. Next.

Don't worry about him," Nana would assure them. "Michael will do more in his life than you can ever imagine.

Every failure I have considered my own, but every success has been shared.

Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

leaders of great companies are both very humble and very persistent.

I have come to realize that much of my success can be attributed to the fact that I believe in the capacity of the people who have worked with me. I truly think that the leader who tries to know it all and tells everyone what to do is doomed to failure.

Once an innovation reaches a certain level of popularity, its success is virtually assured. By the same token, great innovations can fail because the domino effect doesn't kick in.15

When luck plays a part in determining the consequences of your actions, you don't want to study success to learn what strategy was used but rather study strategy to see whether it consistently led to success.

What gets measured, gets managed." If we measure the wrong things, we will not achieve our goals.

If I am responsible for having accrued a handsome share of worldly goods—income and wealth, power and prestige—I must deserve them. Success is a sign of virtue. My affluence is my due.