Quotes About Success

POOR BELIEF: 'YOU HAVE TO WORK REALLY HARD TO MAKE MONEY' WEALTHY BELIEF: 'YOU HAVE TO MAKE MONEY WORK REALLY HARD FOR YOU

Extreme emotion destroys wealth. Anything that you are infatuated with, or resent, rules you. If you get elated or depressed, the emotions rule you. It's smart to have strategies that override extreme emotions. Money is made, grown and given from strategies, not emotions. Many people will tell you that the purpose of life is happiness, but in the extreme, happiness is an emotion and will cost you money. Polarized emotions, at either extreme, cost you money.

Most big decisions are made up of lots of much smaller decisions. Decisions take split-nanoseconds to make but can take years to prepare for. Reduce the weight and size of decisions by breaking them down, knowing you will make lots of good (small) ones and a few bad (small) ones, along your journey to success. So start making more (small) decisions.

So...the lesson here is, never succeed at anything, because it will only raise people's expectations of you

I remember I had lunch with John Travolta when he was in the doldrums. I mean, he was, as they say, box office poison. He said to me something so great. He said, "I wasn't that good, and I'm not this bad.

There are two schools of thought about Ringo: (1) he was a brilliant drummer who made the Beatles possible, or (2) he was a clod who got lucky, the biggest fool who ever hit the big time.

If you do everything, you'll win

This day I looked forward to as one to help us out, worked every possible

S. William Pattis founded and served as Chairman/CEO of NTC Publishing Group from 1961 until 1996, when the firm was acquired by Tribune Company (NYSE). NTC published

Measure your life by improvements rather than mistakes.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

Don't stop at the first obstacle; have endurance to keep on going and you will succeed.

You're an artist, Mel. You can't expect to be a success at the same time.' She was warming her white hands. I was not sure that I was an artist, but it was nice to be told.

Nature gave men two ends -- one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.

They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are supreme.

In investing, what is comfortable is rarely what is profitable.

In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.

If the proper preparations have been made and the necessary precautions taken, any staged event is guaranteed success--Ethelred The Unready

tactic can be particularly successful when the audience is already aware of the weakness; thus, when a communicator mentions it, little additional damage is done, as no new information is added—except, crucially, that the communicator is an honest individual. Another enhancement occurs when the speaker uses a transitional word—such as however, or but, or yet—that channels the listeners' attention away from the weakness and onto a countervailing strength.

One final tip before you get started: Set a goal and write it down. Whatever the goal, the important thing is that you set it, so you've got something for which to aim—and that you write it down. There is something magical about writing things down. So set a goal and write it down. When you reach that goal, set another and write that down. You'll be off and running.34

it will be when prestige (both public and private) is low that we will be intent upon using the successes of associated others to help restore image.

Parte de su fenomenal éxito se debía a su infatigable capacidad de trabajo y compromiso, pero no todo. Según los cronistas de aquel triunfo, Feldman nunca presionaba para lograr una venta a los potenciales clientes que se mostraban reticentes. En lugar de ello, introducía un toque sutil (y astuto) en su discurso que los guiaba con suavidad hacia esa decisión.