Quotes About Success

He just likes to have fun, Papa. That's not a quality that gets you far in life.

At long last, somebody believes in her. Tonight in this exchange she has gained the tools with which she will build her self esteem: She has been chosen and she has security. Maybe this is all that a person ever needs to succeed. Pearl has been picked, and that has begun to define her.

But the first thing that leaves in success is the memory of what it felt like to be poor. We shed that insecurity like an old pair of shoes the moment there's money in the bank. We slip into fine leather and forget how badly our feet used to hurt.

A higher goal is always reached by overcoming fear.

A long time ago I went to a fortuneteller, and she told me that when you have a dream come true, you must then re-dream. You must not stay in the past, because all of life changes anyway, and if you try to hang on to happiness, or success, or even the people in your life, you will be unhappy. You have to set new goals.

We'll go to America, make the money, and come back as soon as we can. It's the only way. Someday we'll have the life we dreamed of." Giacomina

Dream until your dreams come true.

A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man fortunate.

Obedience is mother to success and is wedded to safety.

Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.

Human endeavour is not competent to obtain success and wealth. Bread is not the possession of the wise nor wealth the possession of the astute (Kohelet 9:11). No one can be sure that his efforts will succeed as the Torah says many times over, it is God who decides who will be rich and who will be poor (Dvarim 28:12).

No matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire. To put it a bit more dramatically, the fate of your business is actually in the hands of the youngest recruit on the staff.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Some readers might think that because I am so successful, I have never made a mistake.

Building your brand on quality is like building your house on sand. You can build quality into your product, but that has little to do with your success in the marketplace.

To be successful today, you must touch base with reality. And the only reality that counts is what's already in the prospect's mind. To be creative, to create something that doesn't already exist in the mind, is becoming more and more difficult. If not impossible. The basic approach of positioning is not to create something new and different, but to manipulate what's already up there in the mind, to retie the connections that already exist.

If "what is the size of the market?" is the first question your company asks itself, then you are taking the wrong road to success.

Aflac, the company that brought us the duck. In the year 2000, the company had a name recognition of 12 percent. Today it's 94 percent. And sales have gone up just as dramatically. Aflac sales in the American market went up 29 percent the first year after the duck arrived. And 28 percent the second year. And 18 percent the third year.

If you want to build a successful brand, you have to understand divergence. You have to look for opportunities to create new categories by divergence of existing categories. And then you have to become the first brand in this emerging new category.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

We are not always humiliated by failing at things; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement, and then do not reach it.