Quotes About Success

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can do what others can't

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

I will do today what others won't, so I can do tomorrow what others can't.

I will do today what others wont, so I can do tomorrow what others can't.

I'm famous. That's my job.

The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.

When art wins, everyone wins.

The most successful people in the world are those who have the ability to perceive what is possible even when it looks impossible. They look beyond the obstacle blocking their success and they recognize that through perseverance, they will ultimately be victorious.

Replace that old picture of defeat and failure with a new picture of victory and success.

I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!

When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business I have to humiliate myself.

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for fucking up, for being a successful fuck-up.

Society has always said: Make money. Artists have said: But there's something else. Cliché City. But in Hollwood there's the Big Lie that you can have both. A lie you want to believe.

You might say that success ruined me. You might say I ruined success.

Accountability ought to mean being held responsible for one's actions. But by a sort of linguistic sleight of hand, accountability has come to mean demonstrating success through standardized measurement, as if only that which can be counted really counts.

Pronovost himself accounts for its success by the fact that the project worked through clinical communities, working toward common professional goals and treating central line–induced infections as a solvable social problem.

Performance metrics as a measure of accountability help to allocate blame when things go badly, but do little to encourage success,28 especially when success requires imagination, innovation, and risk. Indeed, as the economist Frank Knight noted almost a century ago, entrepreneurship entails "immeasurable uncertainty," which is not susceptible to metric calculation.

Gaming through creaming. This takes place when practitioners find simpler targets or prefer clients with less challenging circumstances, making it easier to reach the metric goal, but excluding cases where success is more difficult to achieve.

Vuol dire che la felicità non esiste? Esiste quando tutto è ancora davanti a te, quando sei a poche centinaia di metri dal tuo obiettivo, quando sei ad un passo dalla meta. È proprio questo il momento di sentire la felicità

The goals of the player are thus aligned with the goals of the protagonist; when the player succeeds, the protagonist succeeds. (...) The question is, can we imagine video games where this is inverted, such that when the player is successful, the protagonist fails? (...) Who would want to play Anna Karenina, the video game? Who would want to spend hours playing in order to successfully throw the protagonist under a train?

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keeping your mouth shut." —Albert Einstein