Quotes About Success

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

I've never lost a game. I just ran out of time.

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

Make It Happen.

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

There is no "I" in team but there is in win.

Make money with your mind, not your time.

Success is happiness within yourself and serving others and doing things in your life that make the world slightly better place.

You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on any of those things. You've got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.