Quotes About Success

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.

Great moments are born great opportunity.

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

Success is mostly driven by how badly you want something and how well you partner with other great people. It has to do with how hungry you are.

People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.

No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.