Quotes About Success

There are good reasons for the superiority of if/when-then plans: the specific sequencing of elements within the plans can help us defeat the traditional enemies of goal achievement. The "if/when-then" wording is designed to put us on high alert for a particular time or circumstance when a productive action could be performed. We become prepared, first, to notice the favorable time or circumstance and, second, to associate it automatically and directly with desired conduct.

Those who don't know how to get people to say yes soon fall away; those who do, stay and flourish.

Don't believe the system is a meritocracy in which ability and hard work are necessarily rewarded. Today the most important predictor of someone's future income and wealth is the income and wealth of the family they're born into.

Tyhle kapitoly vás zklamou, pokud si myslíte, že v nich najdete úplný a p?esný návod, jak vést skautský oddíl. Cht?l bych tu jen ukázat a nabídnout základní sm?r cesty k úsp?chu a zd?vodnit jej.

The successful evangelist uses the Scriptures in order to disclose the divine patterns and, ultimately, the Pattern who is made flesh in Jesus.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others.

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.

The road to success is wherever people need another road.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

Try to discover The road to success And you'll seek but never find, But blaze your own path And the road to success Will trail right behind.