Quotes About Success

Successful people ask a lot more questions during sales calls than do their less successful colleagues. We found that these less successful people tend to do most of the talking.

Success in the larger sale depends, more than anything else, on how the Investigating stage of the call is handled.

Implication Questions take a customer problem and explore its effects or consequences. As we'll see, by asking Implication Questions successful people help the customer understand a problem's seriousness or urgency.

Successful people tended to seek a sponsor—an individual within the account who helped them, advised them, and, if necessary, represented them in places where they couldn't gain access.

she's sure she's going to be the next J. K. Rowling.

Neil S. Plakcy

New York Times

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

Lansdale was a victim in Vietnam of his success in the Phillipines. Men who succeed at an enterprise of great moment often tie a snare for themselves by assuming that they have discovered some universal truth.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

Most people seem to believe that if a relationship doesn't last until death, it's a failure. But the only relationship that's truly a failure is one that lasts longe than it should. The success of a relationship should be measured by it's depth, not by it's lenght.

To win the game was to leave it.

In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.

Jim Morrison had star quality and he's dead. Star quality's no good to you when you're dead.

I want to have money, so I don't have to spend my life chasing money.

I don't drink anymore myself, I'm moving on. And that's not to say I won't drink again. I'm not making any promises, but I don't think I was a great drinker. Some folks are great drinkers; they drink and tell jokes and laugh their asses off, and they are funny as hell. We buried one of those last week. Life is just a big test, and if you try hard, you fail. If you don't try too hard and fail a little but have a good time, maybe that is success.

Neil Young David Briggs

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself— loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?