Quotes About Success

Epigrams succeed where epics fail.

The hardest thing about winning is trying to do so without losing something of greater importance.

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

The first step to success it's to imagine it

Mind is everything; muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." So said Paavo Nurmi, the Finn who won nine Olympic gold medals at distances from 1,500 meters to 10,000 meters.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

I heard that Harry Nilsson had died. The secret to being a successful hellraiser, it seemed, was to stop raising hell before hell razed you.

Many of the successful therapies I have guided come to an end when the client gains an earned secure relationship outside of our therapy. This is typically a partner or best friend with whom the person can truly be themselves.

Only now, on the other side of his success, Bruce had come to understand what time and experience can do to the most closely held dreams. The point in your late twenties when you're grown up enough to realize that 'life is no longer wide open'.

They ... know from experience better than almost any other nation on earth how transient are material achievements and pomp and glory. ... the New Order pointed to the ruins of Persepolis as reminders of what Iran had once been and must strive to be again. The Iranian people also see in those ruins a monument to the vanity of human success.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.

Bob Evans's judgement of Beatty is most severe. According to him, Beatty didn't lose it; he never had it. "You know what Warren's greatest talent is?" he asked rhetorically, in 1994. "How many pictures has Warren made in his career? Twenty-one? How many hits did he have? Three! Bonnie and Clyde, Shampoo, and Heaven Can Wait. That's batting three for twenty-one. In baseball, you're sent back to the minors for that. Not Warren.

there is always hope; some people always do better than the numbers.

You came back here that day with a word written on your forehead that I could read: 'Succeed! Succeed at any price.' " To which Vautrin responds: "Bravo! That's the kind of fellow I like." (SC 111/P 3:139) To revolt is to take destiny into your own hands by a decisive act.

For success everything must go right, but by contrast, failure can be attributed to any number of external causes

Bragg was obstinate yet without firmness, ruthless without enterprise, crafty yet without stratagem, suspicious, envious, jealous, vain, a bantam in success and a dunghill in disaster."15

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

Skills pay bills, degrees pay fees.

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

What's measured improves