Success Quotes

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

~ Clarence Darrow

At this rate, I'm still going to be aspiring by the time I'm expiring.

~ Scott Cherney

Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding.

~ Jared Diamond

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.

~ Ian Fleming

I can only strive for what is important

~ Rosie Thomas

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

~ David J. Schwartz

He'd had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn't handle it. Success had thrown him in the gutter

~ John Grisham

We may well discover that the business failure we avoid and the business success we strive for do not lead us to personal success at all. Most of us have inherited notions of success from someone else or have arrived at these notions by facing a seemingly endless line of hurdles extending from grade school through college and into our careers. We constantly judge ourselves against criteria that others have set and rank ourselves against others in their game.

~ Randy Komisar

Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small success will point the way to bigger ones

~ Pamela Glass Kelly

How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred thousand? ... So this is what Einstein meant when he looked me in the eye that day and said, I would be nothing without you. It was not success he saw written in my face. He saw, rather, that I would never accomplish anything at all.

~ Rana Dasgupta

Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.

~ John Hanley Jr.

Failure are given power, not success ..

~ David S. Mark

A great deal of success in life depends on the relationship you have with yourself, your partner and your money.

~ Kim Ha Campbell

Learning, empowering, studying, practicing, and not repeating the same mistakes will help you move forward, move up, and move on to where you want to be.

~ Loren Weisman

Failure is not an option but it is constantly a possibility. You manage your success by managing both the technical and the social risk.

~ Dr. Dragos

Social context and NOT individual abilities drives performance, success or failure of a team or a project.

~ Dr. Dragos

When you address and acknowledge unpleasant realities, your creativity begins to soar and you come up with apparently magical solutions to problems.

~ Dr. Dragos

Expressing authentic appreciation doesn’t cost you anything and the outcomes are simply wonderful.

~ Dr. Dragos

Issues or fears of confrontation tend to showcase unhealthy and unprofessional communication. If you are trusting someone to tell you all the good, bad and ugly, but they only give you the good out of their fears and confrontational issues… the bad and the ugly can grow worse and worse quickly.

~ Loren Weisman

Some people are like popcorn: they will only succeed when under heat or pressure.

~ Charbel Tadros

When you decide to remove the word “failure” from your dictionary, it is definitely time for you to re-evaluate your definition of the word “success”. Those who found success without going through failures never found true success, only delusions.

~ Charbel Tadros

There are two kinds of people: goal-oriented and ego-oriented. Goal-oriented people work together and get things gone. Ego-oriented people don’t work.

~ Charbel Tadros

The future, when it comes, is just like the present. The present is all you have and the opportunity of the present is worth more than the success of the past or the promise of the future.

~ William J. Reilly

Nobody played poker with Mike Walsh--at least, not twice--but people fought to get aboard Constellation. Her command record since Mike took her was almost the equal of Enterprise's for danger, daring, and success not only snatched from the jaws of failure, but afterward used to beat failure over the head.

~ Diane Duane

A truly successful person is not one who achieves his highest ambitions, but one who enjoys helping others reach theirs.

~ Charbel Tadros

Building something that matters is a marathon, not a sprint.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

Every step we take toward the top is possible because of all the little steps we took in the past.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

You are capable of great things.Show up.Show up consistently.Show up consistently with a positive outlook.Be prepared for and committed to the long haul.Cultivate a burning desire backed by faith.Be willing to pay the price.And do the things you've committed to doing-even when you don't feel like it, even when no one else is watching.

~ Jeff Olson

As I began examining my successes and failures, what I gradually realized was that the very same activities that had rescued me from failure, that had carried me from the failure line up to the survival line, would also rescue me from average and carry me from the survival line to the success line-IF I WOULD JUST KEEP DOING THEM.

~ Jeff Olson

Don't let societies perceptions and opinions define who you are as a person. Where is it written that you cannot be great at more than one thing?

~ Nyki Mack

Determine how you are going to measure your success.

~ Amber Hurdle

Remember, you are not aspiring for perfection, Bombshell. You are aspiring for progress, one step at a time.

~ Amber Hurdle

Be sure to ask for help, and vent or brag on your progress along the way.

~ Amber Hurdle

Do your best in the day, for the day, and then work on tomorrow when it comes. Show yourself grace and laugh at yourself.

~ Amber Hurdle

Don’t be bothered with what you think other people expect of you when it comes to your raw talent.

~ Amber Hurdle

You want to be able to say, for example, “I will know I am successful if these three things happen.

~ Amber Hurdle

If you cannot tie your marketing efforts to actual dollars that the electric company will accept, it’s time to adjust your plan.

~ Amber Hurdle

I’ve always said we can’t all experience everything, but we can all learn from each other’s experiences, making learning curves shorter and pitfalls avoidable.

~ Amber Hurdle

Business is fluid and you can always improve and progress as your time and financial resources allow, and as your learningcurve shortens.

~ Amber Hurdle

Keep the momentum while you are moving to guarantee additional motion and momentum.

~ Loren Weisman