Quotes About Progress

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

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

The beauty of the media business is all about what is next. You put your mistakes behind you. Learn from them and move on to the next project. Having some degree of success is integral to a risk-taking balance.

Success is to improve, grow up, build one team with personality, and then I want to win.

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

In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.

Defining success is an ongoing challenge.

Success is very enjoyable in any field. But for me, success is not in terms of financial gains.

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.

I can't consider the Fifth Dimension to be a success story.

I think we are smashing it as a government in terms of economic performance and infrastructure spend, but not everybody feels part of that success story.

Every success story in this country was because of capitalism. Everything we're doing. Look at my story. It couldn't be done.

I'm actually an American success story.

Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great.

America is - and will always be - a success story. We have African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, and members of other ethnic groups elected to positions inside our governments.

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

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.

An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Because being CEO can feel lonely, I journal religiously as a way to express my thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Looking back at earlier entries helps me reflect on challenges and celebrate progress and successes.

We reflect on our successes and failures at monthly staff meetings.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.