Quotes About Growth

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.

Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.

Success is not judged by just success in a particular championship.

Before I became a leader, I thought success was all about building myself up. But then, once I became a leader, I realized that success is about building others up.

When it comes to business, diets, working out, writing, or any other dream, success isn't about how high you fly. Success is about how high you bounce.

Failure and success are part of the same seed. If you don't embrace your failure, you never really know what success is.

Getting an opportunity is one thing, but success is based on always trying to create value.

I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time.

Chip maker Nvidia is the new old thing, an overnight success story years in the making that is having its moment and then some.

The German export successes are not the result of some sort of currency manipulation, but of the increased competitiveness of companies. The American growth model, on the other hand, is in a deep crisis.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

I don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.

When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.

I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.

I think it's important to celebrate your successes. It's important to feel happy about them, but it's equally important to look forward to the next big move.

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.