Quotes About Success

Make every obstacle an opportunity." And that's what we did.

Gibney, we gotta win this fucking Tour de France.

Who's going to work hard for someone who doesn't win? ~ Jim Ochowicz

The current decline of America and the rise of Japan was due, obviously, to forgetting that simple and essential lesson. Don't eat your dessert until you deserve it. Don't spend your money until you've earned it. Don't take your pleasure until you're stronger than pleasure and can prove it.

performing at the level that is essential for the company's success.

In all our lives there are hits, strikeouts, and the occasional home run. This book is dedicated to my two young sons, Chance King and his brother Cannon King, two of the cherished home runs of my life.

Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.

The woman had won. In the end, it seemed they always did.

Wantin' takes too much time...I'd rather be working.

He and Augustus had discussed the question of leadership many times. "It ain't complicated," Augustus maintained. "Most men doubt their own abilities. You don't. It's no wonder they want to keep you around. It keeps them from having to worry about failure all the time.

Basically Jake just dreamed his way through life and somehow got by with it.

She wasn't going to succeed in newspapers if she didn't ask the big questions when she could.

Not too many men, in his experience, had achieved a great thing, even one. Very few ever achieved more than one, he knew.

Once you got rich you'd have to spend all your time staying rich, and that's hard thankless work. I tried it a while and quit, myself. If I can keep ten dollars ahead of the bills I'll be doin' all right.

They were just men, and they left money, not memories.

travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Kevin, yours won so many arguments that she was made a teacher

Revenge is living well, without you. -Joyce Carol Oates

Even more basic to McCarthy's success, the president never challenged the senator's meat-and-potatoes premises: that merely believing in communism was dangerous, and that Soviet subversion threatened the stability and safety of America.

the notion that having a job or an income of any kind should be happiness enough has become outdated.

Don't say to become a millionaire, because if you were honest with yourself, you are probably not willing to do what it would really take to become a millionaire.)

YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE WORST TO GET TO THE BEST

My father never measured success the way he did - reaching the top-top of something, as if there was an objective tip-top. My father measured it by how well you figured out what you wanted for your life - what you needed to be happy -Georgia

My father never measured success the way he did—reaching the tip-top of something, as if there was an objective tip-top. My father measured it by how well you figured out what you wanted for your life—what you needed to be happy.