Quotes About Success

Si tu ne perds pas de vue ce qui te motives, tu surmonteras toutes les épreuves.

They kept playing until Gervaso had won more than five thousand dollars and quit because he was drawing too much attention.

The success is more determined by imagination then circumstance

Those who fail to plan are planning to fail.

We do not succeed in spite of our obstacles and challenges. We succeed precisely because of them.

I believe that, for the most part, we don't succeed in spite of our hardships but precisely because of them.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

Richard Phillips

Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator.

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

Two bright young men were on the air, one named Brad, who looked like Dana Carvey, and one named Mike, who looked like an agitated Steve Martin... But I have a hunch that Brad and Mike will be around for a long time. The full names, by the way are Brad Keena and Mike Schwartz.

This just goes to show that if you want to succeed in this world you don't have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier.

I'm the boy who's going to glom onto this junk—if I'm lucky.

Luck was a luxury, not the basis for a business. Luck had to be a "nice to have," not a "need to have.

The world champion rider in any event was at one time a beginner

The interesting thing is: if you do it for love, the money comes anyway.

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.

I don't have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don't think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.

And so, the success of Donald Trump is equal parts finale for the Boomers and inspiration for the Millennials—they weren't just angry, they were determined. And unless someone reverses the laws of nature in the next few years, they are also 100 percent unstoppable

efficiency is doing the job right, effectiveness is doing the right job.

I spent every spare second available - evenings, weekends, lunch breaks - studying everything I could that would help me. But I told no one.

The better you understand the beliefs, actions, desires, and wants of others, the more likely you are to make the right response, alter your own thinking where necessary and generally be successful.

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