Quotes About Success

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Writers are always outsiders and probably ought to be, since only outsiders see things clearly: the people who publish them, or make movies, or produce plays are always richer and more powerful, however successful the writer is.

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.

There is no secret" to success, Fred explained years later in accepting the Horatio Alger Award, given to people who overcame adversity. "There are just two things. One, you must like what you do. You must pick out the right business or profession. You must learn all about it . . . so you become enthusiastic about it. Nine out of ten people don't like what they do. And in not liking what they do, they lose enthusiasm, they go from job to job, and ultimately become a nothing.

To Trump, winning was always paramount. "If I don't win, what have I done?

Despite his doubts, Fred came through, pledging his own equity toward his son's success—an early sign that although the father himself had no interest in taking on Manhattan, he would stand by his son, helping him at key moments in the formative years of Donald's career. Fred would also personally back construction loans from Manufacturers Hanover Trust, guaranteeing that the bankers would be paid even if Donald's venture collapsed. For

Dobias taught his players the line famously attributed to legendary Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi: "I taught them that winning wasn't everything, it was the only thing," Dobias said. "Donald picked right up on this. He would tell his teammates, 'We're out here for a purpose. To win.' He always had to be number one, in everything. He was a conniver even then. A real pain in the ass. He would do anything to win

His parents' marriage was his model. "For a man to be successful, he needs support at home, just like my father had from my mother, not someone who's always griping and bitching," Trump said.

A good managerial record is more a function of which boat you get into rather than how effectively you row"1 Warren Buffett

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

There is an immutable law in basketball: someone must fall for someone else to rise. Those at the top stay there only by beating down those just beneath them." 121 When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

You raise them half-decent, and they grow up and leave. They move to Miami or California-- someplace with gourmet groceries and nude beaches because you've reared them to cook good and be liberal minded. It's just the opposite with your failures-- them kids stick to your tail like a cocklebur. You'd think it would be the other way around, but it's not. No matter how old I get, this will always amaze me.

The Bell Curve might have been called Why Intelligence Matters, explaining the connection of intelligence to life outcomes; this book completes the syllogism.

Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.

The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

Success was individual achievement; failure was a social problem.

I know time holds the winning

With only one proven quarterback in Baltimore, Unitas sensed his chances for success were better there. Thus would the relative fortunes of the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Colts be forever changed.

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

While assessing the agreement's ultimate success would have to wait several years, the JCPOA ranked at the time as one of the biggest foreign policy achievements of Obama's presidency.