Quotes About Success

Knowledge is power. And with money comes great power that requires the right knowledge to keep it and make it multiply. Without that knowledge, the world pushes you around.

We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

lo importante no fue el dinero, sino la persona en que me convertí en el proceso, un hombre rico que no permite que el dinero, o la falta del mismo, dicte los límites de su vida.

What I know makes me money. What I don't know loses me money. Every time I have been arrogant, I have lost money. Because when I'm arrogant, I truly believe that what I don't know is not important.

Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People

The most important specialized skills are sales and marketing. The ability to sell—to communicate to another human being, be it a customer, employee, boss, spouse, or child—is the base skill of personal success. Communication skills such as writing, speaking, and negotiating are crucial to a life of success. These are skills I work on constantly, attending courses or buying educational resources to expand my knowledge.

Mind your business. Don't spend your whole life working for someone else.

The corporate myth is over. If you've spent years climbing the corporate ladder, have you ever stopped to notice the view? What view, you ask? The rear end of the person in front of you. That's what you get to look forward to. If that's the way you want to view the rest of your life, then this book probably isn't for you. But if you are sick and tired of looking at someone else's behind, then read on.

If you have little money and you want to be rich, you must first be focused, not balanced.

If you want more income, learn to sell.

The lesson: The increases in income are going to entrepreneurs and investors, not to employees—not to the people who work for money.

It is what you know that is your greatest wealth. It is what you do not know that is your greatest risk. There is always risk, so learn to manage risk instead of avoid it.

Winning means being unafraid to lose." In

The business behind the business is the real game. It's the business behind the business that makes money regardless of who wins the game or which way the market goes—up or down. It's the business that sells the tickets to the game. It does not buy the tickets.

You must accept the responsibility of being self-made.

Luck is created. So go create yours.

Money is only an idea. If you want more money, simply change your thinking.

A problem with school is that you often become what you study. So if you study cooking, you become a chef. If you study the law, you become an attorney, and a study of auto mechanics makes you a mechanic. The mistake in becoming what you study is that too many people forget to mind their own business. They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich.

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?

Each dollar in my asset column was a great employee, working hard to make more employees and buy the boss a new Porsche.

The world is filled with talented poor people. All too often, they're poor or struggle financially or earn less than they are capable of, not because of what they know, but because of what they do not know. They focus on perfecting their skills at building a better hamburger rather than the skills of selling and delivering the hamburger. Maybe McDonald's does not make the best hamburger, but they are the best at selling and delivering a basic average burger.

There are business and investment opportunities coming that will create bigger fortunes than the automobile did for Henry Ford, oil did for John D. Rockefeller, computers did for Bill Gates, and the Internet did for the young founders of Yahoo, Google, and Facebook.

In the early 1990s, Donald Trump was nearly $1 billion in debt personally and $9 billion in debt corporately. An interviewer asked him if he was worried. He replied, Worrying is a waste of time. Worrying gets in my way of working to solve these problems.