Quotes About Success

A lot of our most successful ideas over the years came from the bottom up, by really understanding user needs.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.

Michael Beychok: "I became a successful bettor when I started playing the tournaments.

Most experienced tournament players understand that you tend to win in clusters anyway.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Early to bed and early to rise -- till you get enough money to do otherwise.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

En este país, los que intentan triunfar sin enchufes ni contactos son asesinos en potencia

You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters

Success tempts many to their ruin.

If you score first, you have a 75 per cent chance of not losing the game. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out that you have to get off to a good start and score.

It took me 17 years to get 3000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." —HANK AARON

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.

As a leader your job is to do everything in your power to create the perfect conditions for success by benching your ego and inspiring your team to play the game the right way. But at some point, you need to let go and turn yourself over to the basketball gods. The soul of success is surrendering to what is.

Bill Russell, the Boston Celtics great who won more championship rings as a player than anyone else (eleven), revealed in his memoir, Second Wind, that he sometimes secretly rooted for the opposing team during big games because if they were doing well, it meant he would have a more heightened experience.

success is an enemy to the losers of the day

If you were to ask me which of the Big Five is the most important number, I'd tell you to go to ROIC first. If a business doesn't have a healthy ROIC—above 10 percent per year on average for the last ten years—move on to another business.

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Never promote someone who hasn't made some bad mistakes, because if you do, you are promoting someone who has never done anything.

Because most people don't know that the little dagger symbol on the New York Times bestsellers list means that retailers have reported significant bulk orders, you can buy a bunch for the devoted, then handsell them yourself. If you can swing 100,000 copies, that's usually enough to get you on the list, and from then on you're not just a prophet but a New York Times bestselling author, too!

With money you were a succesful man, without it you were a failure.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.