Quotes About Success

Tra gli uomini, i freddi calcolatori non hanno nella vita nemmeno la metà del successo dei temperamenti equilibrati, che provano davvero un profondo attaccamento per le persone e le relazioni che recano loro vantaggio

I think, by the way, that's why athletes are so superstitious. Because if you believe that your current batting streak depends on wearing a pair of dirty socks, you're less likely to think it has to do with your technique. If it's technique, you think about it. If it's your socks, it's not rational. What superstitions do for the athlete is to irrationalize. And that's what you have to do as a writer; you have to irrationalize yourself somehow.

He was a lawyer now and it had taken him a long time. It had taken him a long time because he had had to be a lawyer on his own terms and in his own way. But that was over. But maybe it had taken him too long. If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting. In the end they just ask you those crappy little questions.

In a way, the very success which the Boss laid on Tiny was his revenge on Tiny, for every time the Boss put his meditative, sleepy, distant gaze on Tiny, Tiny would know, with a cold clutch at his fat heart, that if the Boss should crook a finger there wouldn't be anything but the whiff of smoke.

He's interested in Willie. Quite simply and directly. And when anybody is interested in himself quite simply and directly the way Willie is interested in Willie you call it genius. It's only the half-baked people like Mr. Patton who are interested in money. Even the big boys who make a real lot of money aren't interested in money. Henry Ford isn't interested in money. He is interested in Henry Ford and therefore he is a genius.

But the first one had not been successful. It had not been successful because in the midst of the process I tried to discover the truth and not the facts.

I may not have proved a great explorer but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success. -Robert Scott-

You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something. Keep going. Don't quit.

The only difference between a rich person and a poor person is what they do in their spare time . . . When at work, work hard, but remember that what you do after work with your pay cheque and your spare time will determine your future.

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.

The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

You will never know true freedom until you achieve financial freedom.

Accounting is possibly the most confusing, boring subject in the world, but if you want to be rich long-term, it could be the most important subject.

There is an old cliché that goes: "Job is an acronym for 'Just Over Broke.

One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not in school. Most of us learn about money from our parents. So what can a poor parent tell their child about money? They simply say Stay in school and study hard. The child may graduate with excellent grades but with a poor person's financial programming and mind-set. It was learned while the child was young.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. But have fun. Most people never win because they're more afraid of losing.

If your financial intelligence is low, money will run all over you. It will be smarter than you. If money is smarter than you, you will work for it all your life. To be the master of money, you need to be smarter than it. Then money will do as it is told. It will obey you. Instead of being a slave to it, you will be the master of it. That is financial intelligence.

We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You can't have success without failure.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind. Most people never get wealthy simply because they are not trained financially to recognize opportunities right in front of them.

When I ask the classes I teach, "How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's?" almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, "So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald's makes more money than you?" The

The main reason that over 90 percent of the American public struggles financially is because they play not to lose. They don't play to win.