Quotes About Success

He might love to read, but he was certainly no greasy grind.

And, in fact, had Johnson's plan succeeded, in many ways it would indeed have been "just the way it was.

Robert A. Caro

You're never going to achieve what you want to, Mr. Caro, if you don't stop thinking with your fingers

his congressional career almost before it began. Herman

What one man can do, another man can do.

Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn't. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work?

I came, I saw, she conquered. The original Latin seems to have been garbled.

With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.

good luck' follows careful preparation; 'bad luck' comes from sloppiness.

How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money, to the utter exclusion of all other interests.

The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily.

We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget—but the nuggets are the reward.

To support his austerely upholstered nest and its rabble staff he put forth minimum effort for maximum return simply because it was easier to be rich than to be poor—Harshaw merely wished to live exactly as he liked, doing whatever he thought was best for him.

Wealth—great wealth—is a curse . . . unless you are devoted to the money-making game for its own sake. And even then it has serious drawbacks.

Because great wealth is a curse—unless you enjoy money-making for its own sake. Even then it has serious drawbacks.

I was promoted to corporal. I was promoted seven times. To corporal.

Rozkazy, které dostáváte, nejsou nesplnitelné, to se jenom tak zdá, protože jsou skoro nesplnitelné.

Any government that gets to be too big and too successful gets to be a nuisance. The Federation got that way—it started out decently enough—and now it has to be trimmed down to size. So that the citizens can enjoy some 'looseness'.

We shall drive ever forward along this line until all our citizens have above-average incomes!

But plenty of money (how well I knew it!) made hard things easy and impossible things merely difficult.

A person with passion typically exudes confidence, and confidence creates value for themselves and others by leading the way, not showing the way. " - David Lucatch, founder and CEO of Yappn Corp.

Persistence Pays - The person who is willing to keep asking for what they want, and keeps demonstrating value, is ultimately the most persuasive." – Jason Nazar, CEO and co-founder, Docstoc [8]