Quotes About Success

Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

The greatest thing a man can possibly do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. It is not a question of what someone else can do or become which every youth should ask himself, but what can I do? How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

Never allow yourself to dwell on your weaknesses, your failures, your unhappy condition. Hold firmly the ideal of your efficiency, your competency, your divinity, the conviction that you were made for health, success, and happiness, and struggle vigorously to attain that which will help you to realize this condition.

Don't let your company default to the kind of numbers that your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is likely to grind out. Instead, look for data that will help you understand whether a specific initiative is succeeding according to the most relevant metrics.

Many of the best and most conspicuous examples of strategic principles come from companies that were founded on them, companies such as eBay, Dell, Vanguard, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart ("Low prices, every day"). The founders of those companies espoused a clear guiding principle that summarized the essence of what would become a full-blown business strategy.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.

Success is on the other side of your comfort zone.

You can succeed beyond the past, but not beyond your belief

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges.

A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.

Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.

Leaders who won't own failures become failures.

There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.

You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses.

The difference between success & failure isn't ability as much as action.

Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.

Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.

Pressure will squeeze whining out of losers and winning out of achievers.

Champions do consistently what others do sporadically.

Pressure squeezes effort out of winners and excuses out of losers.

Successful people work hard on the right things b/c working hard on the wrong things only makes one worn out while failing.