Garry Kasparov Quotes about Success

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If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

Garry Kasparov

Success, Brave, Risk

Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

Garry Kasparov

Success, Art, Lying

Garry Kasparov (2017). “Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins”, p.138, Hachette UK

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

Garry Kasparov

Success, Choices, Decision

Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.104, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent.

Garry Kasparov

Success, Hard Work, Focus

"Garry Kasparov On 'Chess Metaphors': The Chess Master And The Computer". Garry Kasparov's review of Diego Rasskin-Gutman's book "Chess Metaphors: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind" (2005), www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

Garry Kasparov

Success, People, Want

Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players.

Garry Kasparov

Success, Player, Self

This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all things: the power of intuition and the ability to harness and use it like a master.

Garry Kasparov

Success, Believe, Heart

Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.

Garry Kasparov

Success, Battle, Energy

If critics and competitors can't match your results, they will often denigrate the way you achieve them. Fast, intuitive types are called lazy. Dedicated burners of the midnight oil are called obsessed. And while it's obviously not a bad idea to hear and consider the opinions of others, you should be suspicious when these criticisms emerge right on the heels of success.

Garry Kasparov

Success, Oil, Ideas

Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.

Garry Kasparov

Success, Winning, Challenges

A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

Garry Kasparov

Success, Player, Self

The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail.

Garry Kasparov

Success, Simple, Decision

Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA